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HuckFinn410
Explorer
Jun 03, 2014

Left Bleach in FW tank…ooops. How long is safe?

Seasonal site…haven’t used the fresh water tank in at least a year. Last weekend, I put about 2 cups of bleach into the 30 gallon fresh tank to sanitize it, filled up tank with fresh water…..also ble...
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Homer1
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Jun 04, 2014
Suggest not putting bleach in black and grey tanks. Kill bacteria culture which is necessary for waster break down. The bleach will not hurt anything in the water tanks. Sometimes if left in toooo long it will crystallize and plug pump screens. I would suggest running diluted baking soda water through after evacuating the bleach to sweeten the system again.

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