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Title: I am in need of ideas
Post by: Ernie on September 14, 2007, 06:53:57 PM
Does anyone have and ideas on how to get the dead animal smell out of a polyethelyene water tank.  I have no idea how the critter got in but it sure didn't get back out until it was mostly slime:( :( :(  It is a 3200 litre tank so I think baking soda is probably out of the question.
Title: Re: I am in need of ideas
Post by: Furby on September 14, 2007, 06:55:38 PM
Just soak something that smells even worse in there. :)
Title: Re: I am in need of ideas
Post by: Jeff on September 14, 2007, 07:00:38 PM
Man, I feel your pain. I never figured it out in an old jeep a few years ago that a bag of pigroast trimmings got left in for 2 months and tried everything.  The buzzards even circled our house.
Title: Re: I am in need of ideas
Post by: Furby on September 14, 2007, 07:02:34 PM
Yeah, but it seems like the buzzards are ALWAYS circling your house Jeff. ;D
Title: Re: I am in need of ideas
Post by: Jeff on September 14, 2007, 07:03:23 PM
It may be the best place to find a Furby carcass...
Title: Re: I am in need of ideas
Post by: Furby on September 14, 2007, 07:08:07 PM
 :o :o :o
Title: Re: I am in need of ideas
Post by: WH_Conley on September 14, 2007, 07:37:56 PM
One of the younguns let some meat spoil in my new cooler one time, used baking soda, bleach and vinegar, individually and togather. Threw the cooler away. >:(
Title: Re: I am in need of ideas
Post by: Tom on September 14, 2007, 07:42:32 PM
I'd dump some quick lime into the tank, fill it with water and leave it awhile.  Calcium Hydroxide would be my second choice.  It's the lime that is used in out-houses to help decompose the feces and kill the smell.  It probably won't take as much as you imagine.
Title: Re: I am in need of ideas
Post by: limbrat on September 14, 2007, 07:55:20 PM
Call your janitoral supply and ask about a enzyne based drain treatment and mal-odor neuteralizer.
They are pretty common and used to treat odor and slime build up in floor drains. The enzynes digest organic deposits and are harmless, try for one with a high enzyne concentrate some of the cheap ones are diluted. If you can fill your tank, add a gallon or two and leave it for a couple of days it should take care of it.

I keep a qt. of the one i sell around here for ice chest and to get the fish smell off my hands.
Title: Re: I am in need of ideas
Post by: stonebroke on September 14, 2007, 07:58:01 PM
At farm stores they sell spray tank cleaner, It will remove some pretty nasty deposits.

Stonebroke