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Rubbermaid Slim Jim 23gal for Water Change?

MolaMola

MolaMola

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Found a brief post from 2022, but was wondering if anyone has been using this 23gal SlimJim garbage can for water changes? Or has another small footprint, tall profile suggestion that would change my life and encourage me to do more frequent water changes. Currently have 3 rolling 32gal Brutes that are awesome; works great having one for RODI only and two for SW. Got sick of scrubbing Brute after using for water change and am now about done using only 5 gal buckets for waste water.
Deciding between SlimJim or a used Brute I will soon have access to. Maybe Brute footprint isn't as big as it seems and I should stick with what I know. ??
 
MolaMola said:
Found a brief post from 2022, but was wondering if anyone has been using this 23gal SlimJim garbage can for water changes? Or has another small footprint, tall profile suggestion that would change my life and encourage me to do more frequent water changes. Currently have 3 rolling 32gal Brutes that are awesome; works great having one for RODI only and two for SW. Got sick of scrubbing Brute after using for water change and am now about done using only 5 gal buckets for waste water.
Deciding between SlimJim or a used Brute I will soon have access to. Maybe Brute footprint isn't as big as it seems and I should stick with what I know. ??
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I have slim.ones for catering trash can purposes. I couldn't imagine you would be able to reach the bottom of them for cleaning. They are very narrow and get slimer at the bottom. They do take up way less space but I couldn't fit my arm/ shoulder in to scrub the bottom if I ever had to unlike the brute I can get to every inch of it, I'm Also not sure if they have dollies for them or not. I couldn't imagine it would be easy to move 23 gallons of water around easily as brutes with dollies.

If scrubbing the brutes are a issue maybe consider a jet sprayer for the Water hose or a small pressure washer verse scrubbing by hand. If the brutes are two much of a challenge, Consider the 20gal brutes much smaller easier to reach the bottom of them and they have dollies for them.

*Alternatively get a single Brute 32or 20 use it only.for dirty water. I have a few buckets (a set for each tank) i keep clean for rodi and new saltwater and a few buckets I only use for waste water, emptying skimmer cups and other nasty stuff.
 
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The SlimJim 23gal is not too deep for me (neither is Brute 32) and does have two trolleys available or I could use a scooterboard like I use on my little short 20gal Brute that is an ATO reservoir. I need a 4th container bc 2x32gal need to be SW and I decided I want to keep my RODI Brute with float switch for RODI only. Yeah, I guess I'll just go with another Brute 32 or the less obtrusive under-counter short 20 like you mentioned - for some reason didn't think of another of the 20! Easy to dump if I need to change >20gal. Thanks for your input @MichaelB !
 
I used two slim 23g for water changes on my old tank. One to mix sw the other to drain. They do bulge a bit when full so I wouldn't store water in them long term. For water changes they worked perfectly fine
 
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