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Old December 26th 03, 10:24 PM
Nick
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Default What types of plastics are not reefsafe?


"Acrylics" wrote in message
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I think you would be taking a risk, it doesn't specifically say "food
grade", shame though,


well, neither does a Rubbermaid garbage can or storage tote, does not mean

you
are risking anything though .
For them to place a "food grade" or FDA approval for drinking water

storage on
this thing would probably double or triple the cost of the thing
My guess is this thing is made from polyethethylene and is just dandy for

water
storage.
There are actually very few consumer plastics that are not "reefsafe" in

the
temps/stresses we use.

HTH,
James

James, I may have come over wrong here,
With a food grade container you "know" it wont leech anything,
if its not marked FG you must be taking more of a risk, even if it is only
small,
for recycled poly the chance of contamination must be greater,
My friend used to own a business that made acrylic aquatic products
(SeaCraft UK)
he wouldn't use anything that wasn't food grade, his paranoia may have
rubbed off on me :-)
hope its all ok anyway Todd.
Nick.