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garywg58
Explorer
Jan 03, 2015

Hold tank treatments?

Hello All!
We are new to RV ing, and am wondering if anyone has had any experience with UNIQUE Natural Products, their RV DIGEST IT Holding Tank Treatment? They claim in digests all brands of toilet paper, cleans sensors, made in the USA, is inexpensive, unclogs tanks overnight, contains no Formaldehyde, destroys odors causing pollutants, and liquefies solids in the holding tank.
We are environmentally aware, or at least try to be, and if this product is good, then we would use it.
Does anyone have any direct experience with this? If not, what is the most environmentally friendly way to take care of our holding tanks?
Thanks all for all your help!
G Man
Class A
  • Old-Biscuit's avatar
    Old-Biscuit
    Explorer III
    Jan 03, 2015
    Water........

    Higher liquid to solid ratio and all will be well.
    Unique is a good product.........but really do not need 'chemicals'.

    RV waste tanks are just holding tanks. Fill them, dump them, flush them.
    No treatment necessary.
  • wildtoad's avatar
    wildtoad
    Explorer II
    Jan 03, 2015
    What old-biscuit said is good advice. No chemicals needed. If you smell something check the seals around the toilet, make sure there is water in the p-traps.
  • dave17352's avatar
    dave17352
    Explorer
    Jan 03, 2015
    Old-Biscuit wrote:
    Water........

    Higher liquid to solid ratio and all will be well.
    Unique is a good product.........but really do not need 'chemicals'.

    RV waste tanks are just holding tanks. Fill them, dump them, flush them.
    No treatment necessary.

    X2 no special toilet paper either.
  • aslakson's avatar
    aslakson
    Explorer
    Jan 03, 2015
    Unique is second only to Happy Camper as a tank treatment additive. We've used both and settled on Happy Camper.

    Lots of water will also do the trick, but you'll have to dump the tanks all that more often. We dump once a week - 8 or 9 days if we're careful.

    al
  • univmd's avatar
    univmd
    Explorer
    Jan 03, 2015
    Campa-Chem blue liquid from Walmart works for us in terms of price and effectiveness.
  • fcooper's avatar
    fcooper
    Explorer
    Jan 03, 2015
    We've never used anything other than plain water. No problems.

    Fred
  • Harvard's avatar
    Harvard
    Explorer
    Jan 03, 2015
    We dump in some liquid dish soap and water softener only to keep our gate valve lubricated because it is very hard to pull when we use just water.
  • Old-Biscuit's avatar
    Old-Biscuit
    Explorer III
    Jan 03, 2015
    aslakson wrote:
    Unique is second only to Happy Camper as a tank treatment additive. We've used both and settled on Happy Camper.

    Lots of water will also do the trick, but you'll have to dump the tanks all that more often. We dump once a week - 8 or 9 days if we're careful.

    al



    Define lots of water :H

    We don't use any more water than normal.
    Pee into toilet....quick flush
    Poop into toilet....fill bowl then flush

    Wait until black tank is near full then dump.

    I just don't buy into the 'lots of water'

    2 adults...FTd and we only dumped once a week (7 days) and I usually had to add some water cause back wasn't quite full.

    Chemicals, special TP, slide out stabilizers, etc......great marketing so folks buy them/think they need them. But not really.
    Use the stuff if you want. Your monies, your preferences OK.

    I find them unnecessary---------just like I do the 'lots of water'
  • Blaster_Man's avatar
    Blaster_Man
    Explorer
    Jan 03, 2015
    fcooper wrote:
    We've never used anything other than plain water. No problems.

    Fred


    Agree. Anybody that uses anything else has fallen victim to some company's marketing propaganda.

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