Black Tank Question

GoPackGo wrote:
Newbie here. I pick up my new 5th wheel in about a week so it's time to get serious about a few things.

Within a few months, I will be going fulltime.

Seems like black tanks can be 'challenging' to keep clean, especially the monitors in them. Here's my question:

What about dumping the black tank as normal at the end of a stay in a campground, but then filling the black tank 1/3 or 1/2 full of clean water, and driving to the next campground with it partially full, allowing the water to splash around and hopefully loosening up anything that refused to leave at the previous campground ? Then do a dump just after hooking up at the new campground.

Does that make any sense ?

Thanks in advance,

Tim

If ever I got poop on my hands I would not go and grab an ice cube to clean them, that said, it works for some, but I don't use that method.
water cleans things best when it is warm to hot, and laundry soap will dissolve or loosen most any dirt, so when I want to do a tank cleaning, I dump or it is has been dumped and I put in a cup or 2 of liquid tide and 10 to 12 gallons of hot water then go for a drive, 1 to or 3 hours later and however many miles, and the water is actually still warm on the shorter trips, and dump and rinse, the rinse comes out clean with some soap, has not failed me yet and the HE liquid soap I use is septic friendly (as I have a septic system at home) I never have issues with my sensors.

Ice up here costs 4 bucks a bag, the laundry soap is maybe 10 cents for a cup