Waste water uses??

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  1. BoBo65

    BoBo65 Torch Coral

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    I'm not sure if its a bad idea or not but would I be okay to rinse off my dry sand from marco rocks with all the waste water Im using or should I just dump all the waste water down the drain???
     
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    Well you gotta keep in mind that waste water now has all the impurities that the ro/di removed from your pure water. I think it's a 1 to 4 ratio or about that, meaning that basically the waste water is 1.25 times as dirty as normal tap. So you'd be better off using tap water
     
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    You could feed your house plants with it.

    (Sorry, I thought we were talking about RO/DI waste water) :)
     
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    Lol I think that might kill them. You could use the water to hatch/grow brine shrimp.
     
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    wait it will kill houseplants but not brine?
     
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    I am assuming that you are talking about saltwater. Too much salt can kill your plants. However brine shrimp are hatched and grown in saltwater. Plus you can use it to make food for the brine shrimp by putting it into a kid pool and setting it in the sun. after it is full with green algae just scoop it out and put in with your brine shrimp.
     
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  7. BoBo65

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    Hahaha I was thinking the same thing!! That is the only thing I've heard waste water is good for I guess oh well :-/ I just feel like I'm wasting so much water... Oh well I guess
     
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    Pm AZdesertRat he's the water guru! in the summer you could use it alot more for outside gardens plants etc! If you really wanna conserve it, you could use it for your toilets! Just shut the water off and fill the tank up with it! I guess you could also use it for your washing machine or something! I was kinda wondering the same thing! Maybe we should ask AzdesertRat to start a thread on it!
     
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    Wait! I thought we were talking about RO/DI waste water...


    Not much you can do with waste saltwater.... Well you could make your own salt flats in your driveway. ;)
     
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    lol we are talking about waste RO/DI water :D where did you get waste saltwater from???
     
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