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I've been doing water changes on a 55 gallon tank for my parents for the past couple of years. It's ranged anywhere from 10 gallons to 25 gallons per change and at a rate of every day/other day to months of no changes due to me being in college at the time. The pandemic is making things not okay, but I'm trying my best to hang in there and stay sane. Part of this has been me setting up some (now failed) brine shrimp cultures outside (failed due to lack of maintenance), which are about half salt half freshwater. Anyways, I was going to dump them out today like I've done for the past 8 or so years without problem, and a person we shall not address decided to tell me that pouring the half salt half freshwater down the drain would ruin the septic tank. Note: there are currently four people in the house I am in, who all use water rather copiously (showers, garden watering, water changes, RODI unit, laundry, etc.). Now, most esteemed members of the forum, somebody please tell me that I'm not crazy, and that tossing highly diluted water down the drain for the Nth time in a row is not going to ruin the septic tank?