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Location: Never in one place long | Any special product? I have always just used a scrubby and dish soap but sometimes they get so nasty I'm wondering if there is something out there that works better? |
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| A stiff brush and some elbow grease. And something I learned on here, a slug of Hydrogen Peroxide to the water to kill algea. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Bleach and elbow grease! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | Longneck - 2016-05-10 2:52 PM
Bleach and elbow grease!
Yes. Unlike many different soaps that will permeate into the sides of the tank, the taste of bleach will dissipate just like chlorine. Keeping the tank in the shade will hinder the growth of algae. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Stiff brush or my power washer with a splash of Thieves essential oil. |
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Location: Phoenix | komet. - 2016-05-10 1:07 PM
Longneck - 2016-05-10 2:52 PM
Bleach and elbow grease!
Yes. Unlike many different soaps that will permeate into the sides of the tank, the taste of bleach will dissipate just like chlorine. Keeping the tank in the shade will hinder the growth of algae.
Ditto.
When I clean with bleach it doesn't get gross as fast. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | In fact I'm cleaning mine now, I clean them out once to twice a week so I can keep fresh water in front of my horses as much as possible I have a water trought for each pen, I use a stiff brush for cleaning BBQ grills to clean the sides and bottoms off. I dont put anything in the water since I try to clean them out twice a week.
Now I have a really big trought in the back pasture and try to clean it once a year with a power washer, its to big for me to clean all the time, and this one has a float on it to keep it full.
Edited by Southtxponygirl 2016-05-11 9:13 AM
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Location: Never in one place long | thanks! I never thought of keeping it in the shade! not much shade in my pens but a good idea!
Bleach and peroxide sound like great ideas too! :)
I also have thieves, may try that. |
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Location: Texas | Simple Green. I scrub mine every 4 days |
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| gold fish....
leave them in all summer long and in the winter you put them in a bucket in a dark place for them to hibernate |
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| Pressure washer every couple of weeks!! I've done the gold fish before and If you keep a tank heater out they will live all winter long! Just don't let the tank get low on water or they become cat food! |
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| I use a power washer, then add a little bleach to the water. The goldfish never worked for me, (even though I have done that year after year) - this year I'm not going to mess with the fish. |
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| Time2beat - 2016-05-10 4:52 PM
Simple Green. I scrub mine every 4 days
This is what I do. I don't keep a float on it. I want to know exactly how much they are drinking. I dump and scrub once a week. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | Scrub brush and clean every other day.
Except one brood mare pen because one of the mares loves to play in the water so theirs gets cleaned every day.
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Location: Central Texas | For actual scrubbing I use a drill with a brush attachment. Much less elbow grease involved and quick! I have attachments that I use on the outside troughs and a couple that I keep in the house for cleaning the tile in the bathrooms. Found them on Amazon.
Goldfish... I have a couple of troughs that I keep goldfish in and they have survived almost 4 years now. I do not remove them during the winter and they survive just fine. They are great for keeping the mosquitos from breeding but they don't keep the trough "clean"
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Brush-Scrubbing-Rotary-Scrub/dp/B00FAZ64G4/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1462977069&sr=8-17&keywords=drill+brush
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | Goldfish are great  |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | GraciousLegacy - 2016-05-11 9:17 AM For actual scrubbing I use a drill with a brush attachment. Much less elbow grease involved and quick! I have attachments that I use on the outside troughs and a couple that I keep in the house for cleaning the tile in the bathrooms. Found them on Amazon.
Goldfish... I have a couple of troughs that I keep goldfish in and they have survived almost 4 years now. I do not remove them during the winter and they survive just fine. They are great for keeping the mosquitos from breeding but they don't keep the trough "clean"
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Brush-Scrubbing-Rotary-Scrub/dp/B00FAZ64G4/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1462977069&sr=8-17&keywords=drill+brush
I like that ideal of the drill, I'm going to try that out  |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2016-05-11 12:10 PM GraciousLegacy - 2016-05-11 9:17 AM For actual scrubbing I use a drill with a brush attachment. Much less elbow grease involved and quick! I have attachments that I use on the outside troughs and a couple that I keep in the house for cleaning the tile in the bathrooms. Found them on Amazon.
Goldfish... I have a couple of troughs that I keep goldfish in and they have survived almost 4 years now. I do not remove them during the winter and they survive just fine. They are great for keeping the mosquitos from breeding but they don't keep the trough "clean"
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Brush-Scrubbing-Rotary-Scrub/dp/B00FAZ64G4/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1462977069&sr=8-17&keywords=drill+brush
if you use a drill make sure your hair is up out of the way i always wore a baseball cap working with any drill or pto |
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Location: Central Texas | vjls - 2016-05-11 12:26 PM Southtxponygirl - 2016-05-11 12:10 PM GraciousLegacy - 2016-05-11 9:17 AM For actual scrubbing I use a drill with a brush attachment. Much less elbow grease involved and quick! I have attachments that I use on the outside troughs and a couple that I keep in the house for cleaning the tile in the bathrooms. Found them on Amazon.
Goldfish... I have a couple of troughs that I keep goldfish in and they have survived almost 4 years now. I do not remove them during the winter and they survive just fine. They are great for keeping the mosquitos from breeding but they don't keep the trough "clean"
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Brush-Scrubbing-Rotary-Scrub/dp/B00FAZ64G4/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1462977069&sr=8-17&keywords=drill+brush
Good point!!!!! My hair is almost to my waist but I always have it pulled up in ponytail/bun when I'm working and cleaning. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | vjls - 2016-05-11 12:26 PM Southtxponygirl - 2016-05-11 12:10 PM GraciousLegacy - 2016-05-11 9:17 AM For actual scrubbing I use a drill with a brush attachment. Much less elbow grease involved and quick! I have attachments that I use on the outside troughs and a couple that I keep in the house for cleaning the tile in the bathrooms. Found them on Amazon.
Goldfish... I have a couple of troughs that I keep goldfish in and they have survived almost 4 years now. I do not remove them during the winter and they survive just fine. They are great for keeping the mosquitos from breeding but they don't keep the trough "clean"
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Brush-Scrubbing-Rotary-Scrub/dp/B00FAZ64G4/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1462977069&sr=8-17&keywords=drill+brush
Thank you for pointing that out  |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | GraciousLegacy - 2016-05-11 1:20 PM vjls - 2016-05-11 12:26 PM Southtxponygirl - 2016-05-11 12:10 PM GraciousLegacy - 2016-05-11 9:17 AM For actual scrubbing I use a drill with a brush attachment. Much less elbow grease involved and quick! I have attachments that I use on the outside troughs and a couple that I keep in the house for cleaning the tile in the bathrooms. Found them on Amazon.
Goldfish... I have a couple of troughs that I keep goldfish in and they have survived almost 4 years now. I do not remove them during the winter and they survive just fine. They are great for keeping the mosquitos from breeding but they don't keep the trough "clean"
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Brush-Scrubbing-Rotary-Scrub/dp/B00FAZ64G4/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1462977069&sr=8-17&keywords=drill+brush
Things can happen so fast, gald that vjis pointed that out for us |
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| What kind of horse tanks do you all have? Black rubber ones, metal, or colored ones? Just curious as my horses WILL NOT drink out of the black rubber tanks in the summer. I have tried putting it in the shade, not filling it as full so I can add cold water daily, still won't drink out of it. Now if I put out a colored one they will. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I have a few 50 to 100 gallon black rubber tanks as well as metal tanks. I drain them in January and use a paint scraper to scrape all the nasty stuff out at the begining of the year. After the last frost I usually put goldfish in our tanks or algae eaters and they keep it pretty clean for me after that.
I usually have to buy more fish every year because our cat likes to fish.....  |
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Location: Louisiana | Sandok - 2016-05-11 1:31 PM What kind of horse tanks do you all have? Black rubber ones, metal, or colored ones? Just curious as my horses WILL NOT drink out of the black rubber tanks in the summer. I have tried putting it in the shade, not filling it as full so I can add cold water daily, still won't drink out of it. Now if I put out a colored one they will.
One of mine tried to jump the trough and busted it, so they currently drink out of an old lick tub lol. It's small, but we keep a float on it. Plus, it's soooo easy to clean, it doesn't make a big mud hole when you dump it, and it isn't too heavy for me to dump.
We have 5 horses out in the field and they all drink just fine out of it.
We use old lick tubs for everything lol. Trash can, water trough, feed storage, that's what they eat their alfalfa out of. Bust one, and there's forever a replacement lol. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | I use bleach. The rinse well. |
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What do you use to clean your horses water tanks?