WTB : water container

[Myka]

Originally Posted by Van-rookie

No leak. Just the person pet sitting for me doesn't know much about saltwater...I don't want the parameter goes "too" wrong.

The parameters will go very wrong if he is topping up with saltwater. Make sure he tops up with freshwater.

On the other hand, there are several really good professional tank sitting businesses in Vancouver. You could hire one of them to at least come and dose the tank for calcium and alkalinity a couple times while you are gone. I would recommend Raf & Diana at Aquatic Escapes, but it depends what part of the city you live in. At least take a look at that option, it is a much safer option.

[Van-rookie]

Hi Myka....thanks for the advice.
I don't really have a lot in my tank At the moment, after the heat wave attack and also a very recent refractometer salinity caibration that went wrong.

So professional tank sitting would be too much I think.

Originally Posted by Myka

The parameters will go very wrong if he is topping up with saltwater. Make sure he tops up with freshwater.

On the other hand, there are several really good professional tank sitting businesses in Vancouver. You could hire one of them to at least come and dose the tank for calcium and alkalinity a couple times while you are gone. I would recommend Raf & Diana at Aquatic Escapes, but it depends what part of the city you live in. At least take a look at that option, it is a much safer option.

[Myka]

Do you have any "Early's" farm supply stores there? The ones here sell used rain barrels. They are food safe, and have had consumable oils in them (IE flax oil, canola oil, etc). You need to wash them out very well, but they are only $20 each. They have got to hold about 60 gallons. I didn't look too closely, but I think the tops need to be cut off...easy job with a circular saw. I think am going to pick up a couple for my water bins. I checked out the price of new barrels instead at Flaman's, and they were $99 for the same ones.

[Van-rookie]

I checked on the internet an seems early's farm & garden is only located in saskatoon/

[Myka]

Oh...

[Snaz]

Check out some of the chemical suppliers or food factories in your area. Be polite and explain what you need the drums for and you can probably score some for less than what they have to pay to recycle them.

LOTS of what we eat is shipped in food safe 205 Litre/55 gallon poly barrels. Glycerin and Propylene Glycol come to mind.