Hi guys if was wondering if I could reuse the aquarium water for something ese after doing water changes. Any ideas?
Reuse water change water
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If you're a gardener, or you have indoor plants too, then old aquarium water is great because it has a % of nitrate in it, which basically is plant food!
Just be aware though, if you grow veg for your own consumption, and you've recently been medicating a tank, then to be on the safe side DO NOT water your veg plants with such water!
Just be aware though, if you grow veg for your own consumption, and you've recently been medicating a tank, then to be on the safe side DO NOT water your veg plants with such water!
I believe
duanes
once rigged up a toilet to receive old water from tanks to fill the reservoir up when flushed. Couldve been someone else though.
Otherwise yeah, my garden plants love tank water.
duanes
once rigged up a toilet to receive old water from tanks to fill the reservoir up when flushed. Couldve been someone else though.Otherwise yeah, my garden plants love tank water.
Beside the toilet (especially in winter) .
I rigged up a system that would send water directly from my tanks to the vegetable garden.
All I had to do is open a valve, and instead of water heading to the sump, Iit went to the garden
At the time I had about 20 tanks, equalling about 2000 gallons all rigged up to 4 sumps, and do water changes of all 20 tanks, in no time..
I rigged up a system that would send water directly from my tanks to the vegetable garden.
All I had to do is open a valve, and instead of water heading to the sump, Iit went to the garden
At the time I had about 20 tanks, equalling about 2000 gallons all rigged up to 4 sumps, and do water changes of all 20 tanks, in no time..
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All of the suggestions I had in mind were already said. I keep a few buckets of old tank water to flush toilets with and I use it to water plants. I add extra fertilizers to the water though for indoor plants because if you feed them only with nitrate rich water you will eventuelly end up with stretched out plants, as nitrate mostly only forces growth. Adding in some extra magnesium, possasium and phosphor will really make your indoor plants thrive. You dont have to worry that much about outdoor plants to add extra minerals as they get those naturally (depending how rich your ground is in minerals).