Loach Motel

Reel McKoi · Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 385

The clown loaches have moved into the barrel on the bottom as I mentioned
before. The little rubberlip pleco moved in with them. Soon they'll need a
larger barrel or home. I'm thinking of using a plastic flower pot upside
down with large openings they can't get caught in. The decorations at the
pet stores are too darn expensive.

Suggestions? Ideas?
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Reel McKoi · Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Posts: 385

"Tynk" wrote in message @d70g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
On Jan 10, 11:30 am, "Reel McKoi"

> * Your state must have different laws as to how trash is handled. Here
> where I live it all goes in to some kind of huge dumpster no one can
> access.
> Only the monster bales of cardboard are accessible but no one would want
> them. No one would even be able to lift them.
================================ brevity snips!

Yep dead fish etc are all still linside in the tanks.no filtration of
any kind really, unless you count those little micro bubbles which
are probably more of co2 or hydrogen sulphide buildup than oxygen
bubbles, plus there i8s not any signs of flow in the tanks either.

Around this area its amazing what one can find behind a strip mall
that they want hauled off. The restricted access dumpstyers are used
by large stores like WQally World so employees can not toss stuff and
later on go get it out of the dumpster, and also to make sure items
that are faulty and that the store gets credit for is actually
destroyed and not resold or utilized is in deed trashed in those
compacting or restricted access dumpsters.............but the majority
of stores here still use the typical double door or flip top
dumpsters.

* Geeze, they can be a real treasure trove but they've been gone here for
years. Even the restaurants have those that they lock behind fences.
Probably to discourage the homeless from looking for food.

And with landfills not taking certain items or stores not
willing to paya to have those items hauled away se[parately,k they
often build up quite a collection of odds and ends behind the stores.
No real city ordinance against it, and as llong as the property
managers are not complaining, the stuff accumulates..........9 out of
10 times some one hauls it off as scrounge...like me for example. I
often find lots of good materials and items, just like the stack of 90
gal preforms at Walmart that simply had a hole poked in them and then
tossed. My plastic welder put them all back in tip top shape and they
are all in use...............

* I remember the days when you could find stuff like that behind the strip
malls here - no more! :*( I remember finding loads of torn bags of peat
moss, discarded usable pots and a load of shrubs and trees that weren't sold
and tossed out. I stuffed my little Datson wagon (I had at the time) until
it was bottoming out. When I went back for seconds someone beat me too it...
everything was gone.

..or tons of plants that merely needed a
bit of loving care...some of which are still growing just fine.

* YES! Those I found a few times just needed some pruning and a good
watering. Some are still alive here also. Smile

Now they're put into some
kind of compactors and destroyed.

I
picked up an entire Wally World system setup that the have in the
stores that sell fish, when the person that was supposed to haul it
off never did, and I got it as well as a stainless steel refridgerated
live lobster tank too, which is functioning perfectly well with
locally caught saltwater critters that are not reallty tropical in
nature and like cooler water......so it gets used quite a bit housing
what our grandkids happen to catch at the coast. I just sold half of
a Petco fish tank setup, complete with sink and filtraton system etc
etc.......all self standing on walls and stands..... a few months ago,
so I could gain some of my feed room in the barn back...............It
too was aquired form the store when they revamped their layout,. I
still have the 4 octagon shaped plexiglass towers that have aeration
and lights under them and do have fish in two of them...........I also
have a self contained three compartment tank that Petco is famous for
keeping their three different sizes of common feeder goldies
in.........all free for the asking when spotted behind the Deathco
store.

* You need to hope they don't change the laws there like they did here.

I know one day they are gonna pitch that plexi tank that they
now keep fancey goldies and larger goldies and koi in that has the
high dollar 4 tube florescent fixture housed in aluminum with the T-5
lights in it...Its just matter of time and I feel that time is
getting close with all their tanks basically voild of any real life
forms people pay for.

* See if you can find out when so you can just "happen to be there" that
day. Wink

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RM....
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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