safe salt water storing container?

[comfort_racing]

i am looking for a 10 - 20 gallon plastic storage container with a lid to store aged salt water for future water changes etc. any suggestions on what to buy or not to buy?

 

[Aliie]

Check with a pressure washing company to see where they get their samll water containers from. I would start with that or the Home Depot or Lowes near you may also have them available.
Does your LFS sell R/O? If so ask them where they got they holding tank. Good luck.

One question for you............. why do you have or want "aged' salt water, or what do you mean by that?

 

[comfort_racing]

well its recommended that you age your salt water atleast a couple of days so the salt fully dissolves and the ph stabalizes. i had never heard of it but i keep reading more and more about it and it makes sense to me. less stress on the fish etc.

thanks for th advice!

 

[K9]

Rubbermaid makes a 20g BRUTE trash can. $20 at HD.

 

[Amphiprion]

^^^ that is what I have always used. I even got the little casters that allow you to roll the thing around (more expensive than the can, though).

 

[comfort_racing]

do they go smaller than 20 gallons as well?

 

[mwwhite]

For smaller than 20 gallons, you may want to consider using 5-gallon jugs. Instead of a power head to circulate the freshly-mixed saltwater, you could use an air pump/airstone to aerate for a day. Pretty cheap. Some units have dual output lines, so you could have 2 jugs aerating simultaneously.

I plan to do the same thing for a while for our 72 (10-gallon bi-weekly changes) until we upgrade to a 150 at the end of April. At that point, I'll be doing 20 gallons bi-weekly, so we'll use the BRUTE and a Maxi-Jet 1200 powerhead.