What do you use to clean your horses water tanks?

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Southtxponygirl Reg. Nov 2006	Posted 2016-05-11 1:26 PM Subject: RE: What do you use to clean your horses water tanks?
A Somebody to Everybody Posts: 41354 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 I like that ideal of the drill, I'm going to try that out 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 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. Things can happen so fast, gald that vjis pointed that out for us
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Sandok Reg. Jan 2011	Posted 2016-05-11 1:31 PM Subject: RE: What do you use to clean your horses water tanks?
Expert Posts: 1207	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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IRunOnFaith Reg. Dec 2009	Posted 2016-05-13 11:30 AM Subject: RE: What do you use to clean your horses water tanks?
Expert Posts: 3815 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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dashnlotti Reg. Aug 2009	Posted 2016-05-13 12:40 PM Subject: RE: What do you use to clean your horses water tanks?
Off the Wall Wacky Posts: 2981 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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OregonBR Reg. Dec 2003	Posted 2016-05-13 4:03 PM Subject: RE: What do you use to clean your horses water tanks?
Champ Posts: 19623 Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm	I use bleach. The rinse well.
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