freshwater tank additives?

[chauzer]

hello boys!!!! what'd i miss? been gone for the last couple months working down south (blah!). okay, down to business, the freshwater tank and lines have been dry for awhile and my assumption is the water i put in there now will smell a little rotten, so, is there anything you guys add to make it smell better?

[prowlersfish]

a little bleach seems to work . I do use bottle water for drinking & coffee

[rossjo]

Same here - bleach ... and we do NOT drink from these tanks.

We use bleach in our pool most of the time- then other chemicals to balance it ... bleach works great.

[alexander38]

bleach them good and wash them out a few times to clean the pipes to.

[Dan Faith]

I agree with the bleach, we always keep a little in the tank. And treat as if it's water from Mexico. Unless you want Monazuma's revenge and your system cleaned out.

[Rich Schwochow]

An old Salt from years ago told me to use cheep vodka. Every spring i fill about 3 gal. fresh water, and 1 fifth of the cheepest vodka on the market. I run it through everything but the hot water tank. It leaves no taste or smell after that. Remember, bleach is a corrosive, if you use it, stay out of the hot water tank.

[turtlem1969]

so, Rich-

in a 30 gal freshwater tank it would be 29 gals of vodka and 1 gal of water and some old salt.

[LSP]

good one BJ

[gardnersf]

Here is the procedure I have used each year. Bleach is good in these small quantities.

http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/us ... Sanitizing

[chauzer]

booze from the tap...the minute the word gets out about this my charter bookings are going to go through the roof!!
i'm gonna go with the bleach idea, anything to get rid of the smell. thanks for the input. now, if i could just figure out the battery wiring again!! seems like i lost half of my brain over the winter!

[Tuck]

been gone for the last couple months working down south (blah!).

hey! what gives with the "blah" about being down south?

[chauzer]

finally caught that huh?! it's not my favorite place to be unless i'm by BIG water. bristol tenn. isn't. things move really s-l-o-w down there.

[Peter]

It's from all that..ahem... inbreeding... really, I wish some of em would draw the line at sheep....