toilet/black tank question..
hi do please bare with me as i am a newbie to the rv life. i recently purchased a 2012 skyline koala trailer and just moved into it full time about a week ago.
while prepping myself for this move i saw people mention what is known as the Poo Pyramid, something i very much wanted to avoid. my boyfriend did not seem to grasp just exactly how much water was needed while doing a #2 and how dire it was and i am now very afraid we may have a sort of poo pyramid situation on our hands. the reason i think this is is 1. upon flushing once i thought i could see something relatively close so i asked my boyfriend if he was making sure to use enough water in the bowl and while flushing and his response was “oh i didn’t realize you meant a lot of water while flushing also” and 2. the black tank was emptied yesterday but it still reads 1/3 full. and the same for last time it was emptied. the first time i thought that maybe it just meant it wasn’t perfectly empty. alas this time i was more skeptical so i took a flashlight and a gander down into my toilet and i thought i could actually see.. something down there. so upon much more research and desperation i grabbed a suitable poo stick and proceeded to prepare myself to stick it down into this dreaded pyramid to see what i could literally stir up.
to my surprise i was greeted by yet another type of barrier? of course i was flushing to open the ball seal to stick the stick down… it’s not that. i can see the pipe beyond the ball seal and what appears to be another white kind of trap? so what i was seeing was not toilet paper but this white barrier. when i flush everything goes down fine, not sure how because i have no understanding of these systems. but i’ve scoured the internet trying to figure out what i was doing wrong or if my toilet has something others don’t but have come up empty handed… so here’s where you come in reddit.
why am i not able to see directly down into my black tank? what is this other trap/barrier? how am i supposed to know if i have a poo pyramid happening if i can’t see it?
someone please help.
my toilet is a thetford aqua magic v foot flush
editing to say that i am at a campground full time where they pump out your black tank once a week so i can’t exactly dump and flush and try these sorts of things.