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I was wondering what the deletion was about.....seemed like a perfectly good non-suggestive suggestion to me...LOL 
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Yeah....I deleted all the extraneous stuff from my post.

Might have sounded...I dunno....suggestive...but was not intended to be.

Anyway, yeah a short 'pigtail' of garden hose works well.

At the female end of the hose, cut about 18" or so down from that end. 

Of course, you can always attach a new replacement female end to the long section so you have a good hose with both ends.
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Shoot, I wasn't supposed to drink water from a garden hose all those years?  

I've been drinking hose water for nigh on 70 years and I ain't died yet.  Just let it run until the hose smell went away and the water was cool.  My worries are where the water comes from that goes into the hose. 

Podwerkz, I like that idea of cutting off the male end of an old garden hose to fit into the filler port.  
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Yeah just flush water thru that garden hose for a minute before you insert it into the fill port.

This will flush out any bugs or debris. 
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Sure. I use my garden hose to fill mine. If I was drinking out of it (which I'm not) I guess I might pour some diluted bleach through the hose if its been sitting around awhile first and I was really worried about it. 
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A follow-up question here.  I will not be drinking the water from my holding tank; washing dishes and showering etc only.  With that in mind, can I use my regular garden hose to fill the tank for sanitizing? My potable water hose isn't long enough and I really don;t want to buy an unwieldy hose I don't need.  But I'll order one if I need to.

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I have a 178 that was winterized by an RV dealer last October and then stored in a covered barn. Went to clean out the tank and fill with fresh water only to find what I assume is algae in the tank. Green leafy things came out when I first flushed it. Any tips on how to get rid of it? I thought about using bleach in the tank with water but am open to suggestions, advice, ideas. Thanks.
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