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kmacartney
06/08/2011, 11:49 AM
Anyone want to chime in?

BigGimp77
06/08/2011, 11:56 AM
Brute trash can.

kmacartney
06/08/2011, 11:57 AM
They don't leach any chemicals?

BigGimp77
06/08/2011, 11:59 AM
No sir. I got mine at Home Depot. Lowes did not carry them.

dlp211
06/08/2011, 11:59 AM
No the brutes are FDA approved food safe. The plastic is completely inert as most plastics are.

kmacartney
06/08/2011, 12:00 PM
Would you say better than the blue polyethylene barrels?

ja4207
06/08/2011, 12:01 PM
Waterever you use just make sure it's foodsafe grade!

kmacartney
06/08/2011, 12:06 PM
How can I tell?

jeff@zina.com
06/08/2011, 12:52 PM
How can I tell?
Look at the label. :)

In general, recycling symbols of 1, 2 and 5 are food safe. Or just get the same 32 or 44 gallon Brute garbage can from Home Depot, along with the rollers, that everyone else in the hobby has used forever.

Jeff

john miller
06/08/2011, 01:43 PM
Brute's now state on the lids what colors are food safe, it's gray, white and something else, I think yellow?

LockeOak
06/08/2011, 01:55 PM
I'm not sure it's worth worrying about that much in the first place. Animals in an aquarium (save maybe institutional aquaria with very large animals) aren't going to live long enough to make long term low-level exposure to plasticizers much of an issue. By all means use the food safe stuff though, if only to minimize production of the nasty ones.

kv2wr1
06/08/2011, 02:26 PM
I guess it depends on how much you want to store. I have a small tank and use 6 five gallon food safe water jugs that I get from fleet farm for $6 each. I didn't have room for a brute can.

NatureNerd
06/08/2011, 02:26 PM
I'm not sure it's worth worrying about that much in the first place. Animals in an aquarium (save maybe institutional aquaria with very large animals) aren't going to live long enough to make long term low-level exposure to plasticizers much of an issue. By all means use the food safe stuff though...

Your hypothesis is probably correct but how you get there may not be. Aquarium fish should, and do, live long in captivity. We have folks here with twenty year old fish. I have two clownfish that are about 16 and showing no sign of age.

What I believe is the real concern is the concentration of trace chemicals that could have an impact on the health of our most sensitive inverts and corals. Of course water changes should handle these issues.

Randy Holmes-Farley
06/08/2011, 03:02 PM
I use 12 of the 44 gallon Brute cans for various parts of my system (RO/DI water, limewater, salt water, sumps, and refugia) and consider them a good choice. :)

dogstar74
06/08/2011, 05:04 PM
^ :lol: you have a 44 Gallon Brute can for every 10 gallons of display tank volume?!

Nice and prepared.

kmacartney
06/08/2011, 06:29 PM
Thanks everyone!

kissman
06/08/2011, 07:52 PM
Brute trash can with the rollers