How to Maintain Your Septic Tank - The Green Way

How Septikos® Works in Your Septic System
Septikos® Septic Tank Treatment is a dry powder that can, when simply flushed down the toilet, relieve septic systems of many of their most irritating and potentially costly problems. Septikos® eliminates nasty odors, relieves slow drainage and system backup, keeps wet spots from forming, puts an end to frequent pump-outs and keeps systems within regulatory specifications.
Septikos® powder is made up of essential, nutrients wrapped in an oleophilic coating, which helps it stick to oily and greasy substances that can line pipes and cause sludge to accumulate in the tank. As the bacteria utilize these substances, they get needed supplements to their diet from Septikos® and continue to grow and multiply into healthy, hungry populations that consume even more waste.
This healthy microbial population is the key to keeping a septic system working properly. True, there are naturally occurring microbes living in any septic system, but they often lack the right balance of nutrients to keep them in peak performance. Septikos® gives them the missing elements of their diet so they can break down waste more efficiently and reproduce much faster.
Once Septikos® is flushed down the toilet, it flows through the pipes and the septic tank, sticking to greasy buildup all along the way. As microbes move through the system, they find the nutrients and digest them along with the old and new wastes. In this way, microbes are able to break down years’ worth of buildup in the pipes, the tank, and even in the leach field.
Septikos® also helps microbes work on the sludge that accumulates on the bottom of the septic tank. As sludge is reduced, water can spend more time in the system, allowing more time for proper degradation. That means that less waste will leave the septic tank and the microbes will have more time to destroy harmful bacteria. The result is a more pure effluent, the way nature intended it to be.
Septikos® works in both aerobic and anaerobic systems. The product is safe and easy to use. It contains no harsh chemicals or toxic ingredients, and is applied by flushing about a cup of the powdery product down the toilet each month. There are no fillers in Septikos®.