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Old 06-29-2014, 04:37 PM   #1
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Best way to store your black tank between trips

What do you guys do with yor black tank between trips. Just came back from my first trip with my new trailer cleaned tank out and drained it empty and through a couple ounces of sanitizer. Do I need to keep a little water in it or drain it empty

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We keep a little water in there with the sanitizer, maybe a gallon or so.
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After I dump it and clean it at the campground I add a few toilet bowls full of water and add a scoop of powder tide, and a scoop of water softener. I let this swish around for the ride home and leave it until the next trip. When I get to the campground I add 1 4oz treatment of TST orange power. It never smells and it keeps my sensors clean.
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Old 06-29-2014, 05:41 PM   #4
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We also leave a gallon of water and the proper amount of chemicals , i also purchase about 10 pounds of ice and pour it in the tank right before i pull out to go camping each time some say the ice swishes around and keeps the tank cleaner ,just a tip.
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After draining the black tank I drop in 2 of those sanitizer tablets and run the water fot 20 seconds.
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Old 06-30-2014, 05:24 AM   #6
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2 oz of TST orange tank chemical and 3 or 4 gallons of water.
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Old 06-30-2014, 11:23 AM   #7
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thanks guys I will go add water to mine. Now what about winter storage? a gallon of antifreeze and sanitizer?
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After I dump it and clean it at the campground I add a few toilet bowls full of water and add a scoop of powder tide, and a scoop of water softener. I let this swish around for the ride home and leave it until the next trip. When I get to the campground I add 1 4oz treatment of TST orange power. It never smells and it keeps my sensors clean.
Sounds like a modified "Geo Method". Thanks for reminding me! I think I'll do this on the next trip and give the sensors a bath.
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2 oz of TST orange tank chemical and 3 or 4 gallons of water.
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Not much of anything.

In the winter (in California, near the coast) I dump, flush and go.

In the summer, I dump, flush a little, add the non-toxic, biodegradable, no formaldehyde type black tank stuff and a bowl full of water.

Never had a problem.

(I am never going to do anything with what's in the tank except dump it, so IMHO, it really does not have to be all that "clean")
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Since I live in the woods, I usually dump at home and avoid lines waiting to dump at the campgrounds. Unless, of course, we have full hook ups at the site. Between the stop and go of driving home and using the flush, it breaks up pretty good. Then I do nothing until we camp again and that's just a sack of blue junk and some water.
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I never let my tanks go dry expect during the winter. I try to keep a few gallons in each tank all summer. In the black tank I add sewer chemicals or PineSol. If you let your black tank go dry, whatever items are left in the tank will dry up and become encrusted on the tank walls and on the sensors. Over time it will become more difficult to clean your tank.

I also find that after a few weeks after our first use in the spring, I will get what I call a bacteria growth boom, and I will get some sewer smells in the HTT from the tanks, I just add a little more sewer chemicals in the spring time. Once the bacteria growth is done, I have no more smells all summer.
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I agree with all of the above. I buy the cheapest & the strong smelling laundry detergent, rather than expensive tide, add a cap full to our empty black & grey holding tanks, with a bucket of water after emptying. Tanks"Clean" on the trip home. On the next trip out, I add the potty chemicals, liquid water softner & never have any smell issues. We use the SCOTT 1ply soft T paper.

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