Yesterday I took a load of old fish junk to the dump to make room for the next 4x 300 gallon pallet tanks.
While unloading I saw a 2 inch bulkhead in the pit. Of course I want to save it as I hate to see good plumbing go bad but it was attached to a large black tub 10 feet below my feet and in a large pile of construction debris. Then the giant bulldozer came along to push the garbage down to the end of the pit where they load it on to the trucks.
To my amazement the large black tub bounced up on top and was pushed along by the dozer. It rolled to the side of the blade and ended up near the wall and very close to where I was. I had to try to save it.
I couldn't get it by hand but there was a kitchen broom that was near by. I could just hook the lip with the broom but it would slip off and almost roll in to the abyss. The bulldozer was on its way to push it away for ever and there is a not dumpster diving policy at the dump but the driver veered away leaving a another chance. With a little adrenaline and luck I was able on the 3 try to get it.
It turns out it is a perfectly good Aquascape standard bio falls. It looks like someone cut the plumbing and the liner away and chucked it in the dump. The crazy thing is they paid to throw away a $500 pond filter when they could have given it to Bring Recycling before they got to the dump...
The Bonar Box, an insulated shipping box with a clamp down lid from the seafood industry.
The fish compound where I picked them up. No raccoons or herons!
Green water does wonders for their color.
Loading into the box for the trip.
The loaded box with cloramX and pure oxygen trickling from an airstone.
Back home.
Pulling the few shubunkins out.
The landing pad. They were sorted into Shunbunkins/mattes, Sarassas, Large gold, Medium gold and Small Gold.
Here is my set up for natural crosses.
I use hunter green, red heart acrylic yarn for my spawning mops and Penn Plax Baby Hideout Grass with a ceramic electric fence insulator as a weight.
