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wait.... IIRC, Shearlock (The Boat Galley) talks about 2 _cups_ not 2 quarts? Are you sure about that number? from her website: "now use just 1 cup of water per 2.75 pound brick, and initially fill the composting bin about 2″ short of the agitator." She uses a Nature's Head

The media absorbs water from the feces, and bulks (in your sense) as it is used. It is impractical to wet and then dry the media if you are living aboard, unless you have access to shore facility or more space and inclination than I. Storage and use for me is 5-kilo bricks in engine room, and...

I would add my experience, now five years full time living aboard with a C-Head I know the general wisdom is to add water to pressed coir to break it, but the drier the media, the better the results. I store my 5-kilo bricks in the engine room’s (heat and ambient humidity) <-which goes a long...

Do be advised that you don’t want to overbuild, but just to keep to the same as original (or less). If you create a differential in the layup, it will be prone to cracking at the interface between the stiffer and less-stiff areas. Probably not a huge deal in a small spot like a thru-hull but why...

"dumping" doesn't necessarily mean 'dumping overboard.' It also means, 'dumping into a shoreside toilet,' or 'dumping into a designated shoreside receptacle.' I have 3 1-gal jugs that I use as reservoirs. These fit in a tote bag. When they are full, usually takes most of a week for us two, I...

So many variables, but the first that comes to mind is the lag time between the nutrient loading and the bacterial bloom...

Because nothing washes off the land? Fertilizers and weed killer pax put in their yards, potted plants. Runoff from roads and driveways. Agricultural runoff. Unplanned sewage releases. But of course, it’s the boats. Yeah.

Google "yesterday's news" cat litter

@loungesailori do believe your mode of use and mine must differ quite a bit, from what you are saying 

AFAIC, that would defeat one of the best features of coir medium…

Three 5-kilo bricks last me 8 months, but I sift/scoop. The other bennie of sifting is that the decomp bugs balance is maintained

@smj so far we haven’t noticed any odor. Odd. I guess we could be inured; having two cats does that. Did notice in your pic, do y’all leave the lid shut? We don’t, bc we noticed condensation. We do not have a fan. 

Are you at 50% Cob and 50% coco?

It is easy to just add some water and get the coco to break up, be very sparse with the water. Madame just periodically spends some time with a brick and a serrated knife and forgoes water altogether. She says doing that keeps the arthritis in her hands at bay

Depending on your ambient humidity, you may not need water. Our MO is that once we need refills, the coir brick has been stored in the hot humid engine room for long enough that it is reasonably easy to break up into the container (ex-cat litter bucket) that holds same for use. Also in the...

I bet people would be quite surprised, as I was, to learn about municipal 'unplanned releases' in every city, everywhere. How frequently they occur and how much raw waste outflows from them. And that's not including the general leakage and infrastructure failures of these cities: things like...

As to ‘leaking’ solids container: if your media is wet enough to leak, you are certainly doing something wrong…

Update on the corncob cat litter: As per smj instructions, have mixed 50:50 with coco coir. It seems to aerate and sift better. I do like it in that sitch. But… as cat litter, it.fuckin’.sucks. I have fancy mats in front of the boxes which do work for the pine pellets, but are powerless...

+1 on (no)TP in desiccating heads. As for Floriduh: I know in the Keys it's OK, and haven't spent much time to speak of elsewhere in Floriduh but AFAIK desiccators are generally accepted. At Marathon City Marina there is a drop station for porta-potty dumping where the urine is disposed. The...

I just picked up my bags. Very highly scented, so we'll see if the cats like it. @smj what ratio combination, please? thx