How many buckets do you own?

fish farmer · Aug 17, 2020

I have three 7 gallon buckets, maybe four for reef duties. One small 3 gallon bucket for freshwater. I had several old coralife/io screw lid type buckets that went to work...then the boss was in a buying new bucket phase so they came back home. A couple of them are out in the yard for garden duties.

ACReefer · Aug 17, 2020

I have 3 buckets and 42 1 gallon jugs.

SteveG_inDC · Aug 18, 2020

All these replies are hilarious. I should have added, "...and is your significant other still willing to live with you?"

I love reef-keeper culture. Every once and a while I'll drive by a house with a non-flickering actinic glow and I just know they probably also have a messy garage...

Borg · Aug 25, 2020

Dozens.
Im in drywall.

... and I make homemade wine.

Jvesche20 · Aug 25, 2020

I have probably 15 or so. only about 3 I can actually use. and a large 55 gallon for rodi water

bevo5 · Aug 25, 2020

Never enough.

No matter how many I have, they're always all taken with something that must be kept in a bucket. Loose nets and tools? Bucket. Clean filter socks? Bucket. Dirty filter socks? Bucket. LR rubble? Bucket. Weird odds and ends? Their own buckets.

Everything gets a bucket. Need more.

SMSREEF · Aug 25, 2020

This thread is making me laugh so hard!
I guess I’m not the only one with “bucket issues”
1 in the Sunroom with filter socks inside drying in front of window.
3 in dining room drying before I put out in garage
6 out in the garage

kpoj9 · Aug 25, 2020

Great Thread....More than my wife wants me to have.

sam2110 · Aug 25, 2020

I have more buckets and containers than I would ever need! Come to think of it I have enough to start a small shop!

Mark_C · Aug 25, 2020

Mmm... lets see if I can remember how to do that scientific notation stuff...

Lovefish77 · Aug 25, 2020

I personally dont own any 5 gallon buckets
I have made the entire apartment reef ready. So there is airline tubing from rodi unit in the kitchen to the tank and saltwater mixing station. I use a dosing pump for auto water changes, one line takes water from saltwater reservoir into the display sump and the other takes water from the simp and throws it in the gutter in the balcony . Totally hands off approach. Takes time to plan and put tubing around the apartment but well worth it.

lefkonj · Aug 29, 2020

ScottB said:
My salt is IORC in the big boxes, but at 1/2 a liter a day of ESV 2-Part, the buckets add up. Finally had to bite the calcium reactor bullet to get part of my life back.

Nothing very orderly about my fish room. It is all mine. At least my APEX modules are all pretty orderly. Got that going for me.

These aren't just buckets, they are floor support. This stack of buckets must be supporting the tank above int.... great use of old plastic.

Borg · Aug 29, 2020

Do barrels count?
7- 55 gallon barrels
55 gallon ace roto mold

No, my basement is not a meth lab.

terraincognita · Aug 29, 2020

If 5 G jugs count I have 5 Jugs, and 2 Buckets XD

Just for a 45, 13, and 10G

Must haves IMO.

Only solution is to have maybe 1 single large jug.

I had a thought about building a house, and building saltwater plumbing into the house..... But Idk if that's viable long term? possibly. but idk. Separate to the house mainline plumbing obviously, it would just be a simple thing that maybe went to a reservoir underground in the backyard or under the garage.

I think you can have 160G container and 1 bucket of Coral Pro makes the perfect 35PPT mix. There's some article about it somewhere.

If you think about aquariums they must have something like this actually.

If you could, you could literally drain your tank, and turn on a hose to fill it up. I think that would be the coolest thing ever.

Borg · Dec 2, 2020

just added two 300 gallon ace roto mold vertical tanks.
then I realized they won't fit through my basement door. oops

might sell...

Roosterjack · Dec 2, 2020

I have about ten or so. I use blue Lowes buckets for wastewater, orange Home Depot buckets for water change or “safe” water, green Menards buckets for acclimation/moving livestock, and red Ace Hardware buckets for equipment maintenanc.

The rest of the household uses plain black buckets, with the rule being “If the bucket isn’t black, put it back”.

SteveG_inDC · Dec 2, 2020

Roosterjack said:
I have about ten or so. I use blue Lowes buckets for wastewater, orange Home Depot buckets for water change or “safe” water, green Menards buckets for acclimation/moving livestock, and red Ace Hardware buckets for equipment maintenanc.

The rest of the household uses plain black buckets, with the rule being “If the bucket isn’t black, put it back”.

Nice! I have a bunch of orange (Home Depot) and white (Reef Crystals) and was thinking of rules to differentiate their use. I'm thinking of QT (water and equipment in contact with copper) versus non-QT. My household isn't allowed to use my buckets for anything other than seating.