Texas totes and barrels established in 2004 provides upcycled ibc food grade and algae resistant totes and barrels for diy rain harvesting livestock watering irrigation aquaponics hydroponics composting used oil storage and many other uses.
Ibc tank water collection.
This is because if light does get in you are guaranteed the very unrewarding job of cleaning up algae from the container.
Rather than use a number of pvc pipe adapters to get down to a garden hose we reused the 2 cap and some spare plumbing parts we had kicking around.
So we moved the small rain barrel over by the guest house where another rain barrel was already sitting.
Afrim of ibc water tanks was extremely helpful he gave me lots of good advice before i purchased.
When we added a 1000 liter ibc tank to our courtyard it replaced a 120 liter rain barrel.
It has a cheap plastic ball shut off valve and a 2 plastic cap that gets screwed on to keep it from leaking.
Grain feeder built from a 55 gallon barrel and 2x4s.
Any container for water be it a cistern rain barrel or ibc tote needs to be light proof.
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I mentioned briefly that we had all our water tanks set up now.
Ibc water tanks containers supply and collection.
With these we decided to go with 6mm thick plastic.
Then bought a little plastic connector hose to join them together.