Is there a use for waterchange water? - Page 2

Kelley · #26 02/17/2006, 06:36 PM

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Originally posted by coralights
you could also brush your teeth with it :-)

Eww, just think about what is in that water!!

Why not sell it to hair product companies in that case, they keep coming out with sprays that have 'ocean water' in them to give you that day at the beach look.

coralights · #27 02/17/2006, 07:16 PM

Eww, just think about what is in that water!!

double ewwww! ... just think about what's in our mouths! :-)

"Why not sell it to hair product companies in that case, they keep coming out with sprays that have 'ocean water' in them to give you that day at the beach look"

hmmmm ..... i love the smell of ocean water in hair .... and napalm in the morning :-)

Kelley · #28 02/17/2006, 07:45 PM

yum, me too!! napalm and fish gunk

cdraughon · #29 02/17/2006, 11:19 PM

Smells like Cosmo Cramer's Beach cologne.

jokeloma · #30 02/17/2006, 11:41 PM

You could use it to wash out fresh cuts on your hands. Maybe make a nasal spray for someone special.

Personally I liked the fill a large container with it and LR and see what happens

piranhaking · #31 02/19/2006, 01:30 AM

I realize the washing out cuts comment was probably just a joke id like to mention that the water could contain toxins from the corals that would be really bad (possibly deadly) so i wouldnt advise that. Just thought id mention it incase someone took it seriously.

Ti · #32 02/20/2006, 03:30 PM

boil it till it evaporattes , then use the "sea salt" as food seasoning.

Angel*Fish · #33 02/25/2006, 03:13 PM

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Originally posted by Ti
boil it till it evaporattes , then use the "sea salt" as food seasoning.

Good one! But- sell it in teeny bottles for an outrageous amount of money. Specially processed sea salt in designer flavors:
tanks with cowfish would yield salt for steaks
hogfish for pork
tangs for vegetarian salt
etc

FSOL · #34 02/25/2006, 06:38 PM

wash your car w/ it

DgenR8 · #35 02/25/2006, 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by FSOL
wash your car w/ it

Bad idea. Soap doesn't get "sudsy" in salt water, and more importantly, the salt is not good for your car.

FSOL · #36 02/25/2006, 07:52 PM

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I was being sarcastic.

DgenR8 · #37 02/26/2006, 07:48 AM

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Originally posted by FSOL
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I was being sarcastic.

Sarcasm is one of many things that don't convey well in this medium. You have to understand that you are talking to people that might not know better than to wash their car in dirty salt water.
Case in point, all those people you see lined up for a car wash a few days after a big snow storm. Cars run through with road salt all over them. the water is reused time and time again, effectively coating every car it touches with road salt.
So what we have here now, is 4 posts in a row that are basically nothing more than a waste of bandwith, and have gotten the original poster no closer to the answer to his question.

msman825 · #38 02/26/2006, 08:05 AM

LISTEN to DGEN RB , Dump it out . Make new go again. Very good POINT, SIR.

speedingredline · #39 02/26/2006, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by DgenR8
Sarcasm is one of many things that don't convey well in this medium. You have to understand that you are talking to people that might not know better than to wash their car in dirty salt water.
Case in point, all those people you see lined up for a car wash a few days after a big snow storm. Cars run through with road salt all over them. the water is reused time and time again, effectively coating every car it touches with road salt.
So what we have here now, is 4 posts in a row that are basically nothing more than a waste of bandwith, and have gotten the original poster no closer to the answer to his question.

Thank you, Very well stated. I guess I was asking for it when I started this thread.

cutsupremetrib · #40 02/27/2006, 01:52 PM

then why is everyone else being sarcastic i doubt you could seriously find any good use for old saltwater Gah why does everyone on here have to jump down everyone elses throats people need to get along

davidcalgary29 · #41 02/28/2006, 04:10 PM

I use my old seawater in my LR "QT/development" tank. I recently upgraded to a 165g (from 70), and didn't have nearly enough LR for the new setup, AND didn't want to pay the $1000 CAD it would cost me to add 100 lbs of LR, so I decided to "make" my own by seeding cheap local tufa. Setup has been working well, and I've been able to harvest about 1 lb/2 weeks -- all of which goes directly into the sump.

My seawater cycle, in other words, is display -- > LR ---> onto the lilac stump that I'm trying to kill in the backyard.

YoungReefer · #42 02/28/2006, 11:51 PM

Well salt is ok to a certain degree for your car. I mean take soft water for example it's "salty".
I suggest donating it to your local college or high school microbiology or biology class for studying the bacteria that may be in it well that are in it...... Just a thought.

DgenR8 · #43 03/01/2006, 05:44 AM

Salt corrodes metal. less is not as bad as more, but salt is bad for anything made of steel.

Donating your used salt water to a school is not a bad idea, but when I'm on schedule (I've slipped lately), I change 100 gallons a week. There is no way I'm dragging 100 gallons of dirty salt water around once a week (what if it spilled in my car? now I'm dealing with a wet, musty smelling rusting car!) There are also more Reefers near me than schools that I know of. It would be a very short time before all schools in the area had more dirty salt water to test than they knew what to do with. It might work in areas where we (marine tank keepers) are more spread out. There would still be that whole dragging it around thing though.

YoungReefer · #44 03/01/2006, 09:34 AM

True that idea came from the fact that I have 5 high schools and 3 colleges within 4 miles of me

Mr. Ugly · #45 03/02/2006, 06:41 PM

I use the old water from my sps/lps/zoa tank in my softie tank.

I use old softie tank water for curing rock.

I've also used diluted reef tank water for my brackish puffer tank.

piranhaking · #46 03/02/2006, 09:06 PM

I think some people in this world need to lighten up. Usually the smiley face would give most people a hint........ secondly im sure most people would know better than to use salt water for washing a car. I also think that if people are going to get chewed out for making jokes the person that made the seasalt for food joke should be chewed out even more, since that could potentally be dangerous to your health. Am i the only one that thinks its a little odd that if someone with 1950 posts makes a joke its ok but if someone with 120 something posts does then they get bashed for it??

also the water may be used again in carwashes, im not sure, but i know that even if it is the rinse water either isnt or is cleaned first. think about it. If it was all the same water then the rinse water would be soapy and that wouldnt rinse very well would it.

YoungReefer · #47 03/03/2006, 12:00 AM

Well put

jpfelix · #48 03/03/2006, 12:18 AM

soft water is not salty.

our flower beds enjoy the splash of 20ish gallons of dirty saltwater/week. they also get the waste water from the rodi.

YoungReefer · #49 03/03/2006, 12:47 AM

Soft water does have salt in it though. I personally dump my waste water down the toilet

Angel*Fish · #50 03/03/2006, 02:58 PM

Have you guys tried a Python? Your attach it to your faucet & it sucks the water out of your tank & down the drain - no buckets needed - of course you can't recycle it that way - but so far there haven't been very many solutions to the recycling anyway