I'm not one who is squeemish -- I've seen more gore, blood, and nastiness than most people even think about, but there is one thing I have a real problem with -- bugs. They are vile. They need to be destroyed. Ugh.
So you might imagine my dismay when I pulled up the top of the toilet (that darn vinyl skirt is giving me problems again), and I saw hundreds or thousands of larvae of some sort. They weren't moving, so at first I just thought they were bits of toilet paper. But I did think it was odd that these "bits of toilet paper" were all over the tank-side of the chute, all over the underside of the top half of the toilet, and everywhere else.
But I've taken the toilet apart before, and it didn't look like the toilet paper I had seen then, so I took a closer look. Slightly smaller than maggots, and brown in color. I'm not sure if they are brown when they are alive, or if the Aqua Chem turned them that way, but THEY WERE FOUL!!! I hosed them down into the bottom of the toilet, so hopefully they'll be outta there during the next dump.
As I said before, I've taken apart the toilet before -- maybe 6 months ago -- and I was larvae free. And prior to that, we have had the TM for about a year, and use it about once a month. So why larvae all of a sudden?
The ONLY thing I have changed is that I have started leaving the toilet charged while in storage. I've done it for the past 2 trips. So, for those of you who do that, Wayne
, and would prefer not to have prehistoric creatures crawling in your cathole, you might want to take a closer look to see if you have a problem.
If that's not the problem, I have no idea what is. Does anyone have any ideas? The Thetford manual does specifically state to store the unit evacuated, but I wouldn't have thought for a moment that anything could grow in those chemicals. Perhaps the toilet charge created a moist environment above the charge line (and thus relatively non-toxic), and those bas**rds flourished in the chemical-free zone.
Does anyone wash out their Thetford after dumping? I never thought it would be very productive because of the screen cone.
I'm still disgusted. Yuck. I feel violated. I need to go take a shower.
Dave
Bugs in the toilet!
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