Water storage container with cage question

[Von915]

My sister in law has date syrup delivered in these 250 gallon containers with the cage. If I rinse it well, do you think it will be safe to mix water in for my reef?

 

[Member No. 1]

Don't see why not since it's food safe.

 

[Duality]

You will be fine. I bought two 55g food grade barrels off Facebook a year and a half ago. The guy told me that sugar was stored in them. I rinsed them out and filled them up with tap water then added a gallon of vinegar and let the vinegar water sit for a week. I then drained them and rinsed then with a few gallons of ro/di then them them dry. I haven't had any issues of high nutrients or phosphates. My ro/di unit and storage is on the second floor in the laundry room. I use the 55g ro/di storage as my ato barrel. I have a line ran from the barrel to a float valve in the sump. I added a tds meter to this line so I could see if I would get any tds leaching from the barrel. In a year and a half I've yet to get any tds coming from the storage barrel to the tank.

 

[RBU1]

Yes I have used several of them. I have one cut in half in my shed just for an emergency.


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[Timfish]

Yup, should work fine. Your sister in law should sell them if she isn't already. Locally they go for about $100 on CL