What do yall do with your used saltwater from waterchanges

[Mgex]

i was thinking it seems like a waste to throw away used saltwater so does anyone use it for anything else ?

 

[vetteguy53081]

I was using it for snow/ice melt which worked well on my deck. I am able to grill out now !!
Otherwise I run hose off deck over leaf pile which the deer love the salt when eating the leaves for forage

 

[GaryE]

Down the drain with the smelly old fish water...

Not boiling my spaghetti in that crap, thanks...

 

[Chefwheredyougo]

Hmmm.... we are taught to make our pasta as "salty as the sea"....

 

[Hemmdog]

I’ve been meticulously drying out my water change water to construct this llama sculpture.



Jk! I pour it down the drain.

 

[W1ngz]

I'll sometimes run it through a filter sock and use it near the end of a quarantine period in the quarantine tank as part of my acclimation.

Other than that, it goes down the drain.

 

[av8soulfly]

I wash my car with it.

 

[Mgex]

I was thinking about just dropping all mine into a big container with a light over it and keep it topped off with freshwater and let the microfauna grow and see what happens

 

[Slawman]

If I am running a quarantine setup it goes into that system, excellent way to harmonize parameters (as long as there are no problems in the main display), otherwise down the drain....

 

[mbarber87]

If I am running a quarantine setup it goes into that system, excellent way to harmonizing parameters (as long as there are no problems in the main display), otherwise down the drain....

My man getting ready for some COVID-19 with his fish

 

[homer1475]

Down the drain.

My thinking, if it's old nasty water were replacing with fresh, why would I want to use it for anything else?

 

[windemerejack]

Makes excellent weed killer

 

[fish farmer]

In the yard or ice melting for walkway.

 

[luisgo]

When I change water in my main tank 125 gallon I use the water for a 30 gallon cube with soft corals and LPS's. Both look great. Water from the 30 goes down the drain.

 

[Jenuvio]

adding dirty water to a quarantine tank sounds counter intuitive..

can someone explain why it's beneficial??

 

[Malifry97]

Makes excellent weed killer

Really?

 

[Jenuvio]

Really?

Yup! The salt will eventually dehydrate the roots and kill any plants.

 

[Malifry97]

Yup! The salt will eventually dehydrate the roots and kill any plants.

Thats awesome!

 

[windemerejack]

Really?

Its the salt, it kills weeds.
A good way to kill weeds is with salt so I learnt off my father to use saltwater on weeds, and have been doing it ever since.

 

[Malifry97]

Its the salt, it kills weeds.
A good way to kill weeds is with salt so I learnt off my father to use saltwater on weeds, and have been doing it ever since.

Thats awesome im gonna have to try it