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12/02/2007, 11:11 PM
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Effect of salt water aquariums on septic systems?
We are looking at building a new house in a rural area that would require a septic system. I'm thinking that 5 to 10 gallons of salt water down the drain every week wouldn't be good. Anyone have any input on this?
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12/03/2007, 12:02 AM
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I don't know about the effect on the system, but if you live in a rural area, you could probably find a place to just dump it outside... which is essentially what a septic system is doing.
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12/03/2007, 12:19 AM
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depends how much other grey/black water is going into the tank to dilute the 10 gal of salt water....you could upset the biological chemistry in the septic tank - do you get it pumped out annually or additives (bacteria etc)? If you dump it into the outside, the salt will eventually build up unless you have enough rainfall to leach the salts farther into the ground - usually causes grass to turn brown as we had a salt water pool (no chlorine) and backwashed into the backyard and where the drain from the pool hose was the grass hasnt grown back yet...
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12/03/2007, 12:33 AM
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Yeah, it definitely will kills grass and other plants... I was thinking along the lines of digging a hole for the water to leech into or finding a place that already doesn't have anything growing in it.
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12/03/2007, 03:01 AM
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 One went off in mine, anyway... only to be very quickly put out...  Brandon
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12/03/2007, 03:46 AM
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dump it down your driveway and around the end of your driveway. Salty driveway and driveway entrance=no ice
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12/03/2007, 04:07 AM
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Thats a really good idea...
Brandon
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12/03/2007, 01:26 PM
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that is a big no no on the salt in the septic. If not greatly diluted with other fresh water you will kill all the bacteria in the tank that is used to disolve and break down the solids in the tank. IT is not that you are just doing 10 gallons per week, but 10 gallons in a very potent concentratin over about a 3 minute time span on a weekly basis that gets you in trouble. If you are rural, andhave a "thicket" of trees, I would dump in there or in the culvert.
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12/03/2007, 01:36 PM
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I just stumbled across this thread when I searched for new posts. I think you should post this under the advanced topics forum. I have often wondered this same thing, and I think this could instigate a lively debate. lol
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12/03/2007, 02:03 PM
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Yes, but a few people urinating throughout the day is not the same as doing a 30+ gallon water change at once. I always dump my waste water from the aquariums down the drain, but I still wonder if anyone has actually done any studies of it.
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12/03/2007, 02:09 PM
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I'm trying to figure out how you know what the salinity of urine is. Get bored one night? I'm kidding, I too have a septic but I never put saltwater down the drain. I just dump it outside on the gravel drive where I don't want grass or anything growing.
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12/03/2007, 06:13 PM
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I don't know about you all, but I urinate 10 gallons a week.
Brandon
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12/03/2007, 06:49 PM
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12/03/2007, 09:36 PM
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 When I was growing clowns at the house, I poured about 100-200g of saltwater a week into our septic system with no problems, and I still dump a lot of saltwater down the drain for quarantine/personal tanks. But...since it was/is so regular, I figure that we have a brackish community of decomposers living in there... I don't know if I could recommend it, but with the amount of saltwater I was putting down there, one would think that if it was bad for septic tanks, we would have had some issues. The grass over the drainfield grew really well during that time as well  Matt We do have an extra-large tank and drainfield though; you know how much we ETRC'ers like to eat 
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12/03/2007, 10:44 PM
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Well I dump mine outside and never have any problem with grass growing if I had a nice yard I would put it in the driveway if it is gravel. I use to live in MN and they dump salt on the roads all the time in the winter.
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12/04/2007, 01:20 AM
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