korith
11-19-2008, 07:08 AM
Well I posted an ad on craigslist looking for a stand for a 20g. Next day someone sent me an email asking if I wanted a 10g tank with an orange molly in it. So I thought sure why not, they lived only a few minutes away. I get there and load the tank into the truck. Then she says oh we have some other fish stuff you can have if you want. A 20g tall, some sort of weird hex tank I think 8g, one of those small 1.5g tetra tanks. And some other odds and ends to go with them. Apparently they had a goldfish their kid bought and each time it got big they kept replacing the tank with one size larger.
They had some chemicals and stuff in a box for the fish tanks, but it was sitting outside in the garage for who knows how long, didn't see any expiration dates or anything on them. Think they are still safe to use? It does get pretty hot here in georgia in summer.
Oh I'll be posting up a picture of the filter thing the small tetra tank came with, I think its missing a piece but not really sure. It has what appears to be a place to hook up an air hose, then runs down a plastic cylinder. That plastic cylinder goes into another plastic cylinder which goes down to something that looks like a gravel filter. Oh the plastic cylinder where a carbon cartridge goes in. Is it suppose to have some sort of foam filter anywhere?
Oh I did ask why they were getting rid of the fish stuff, the mother said she got tired of doing water changes. Told me a story about having to drag buckets of water around the house to do water changes. So I mentioned the python and how it worked. Said if she had known she would have kept the gold fish, but since it was given away already. I might as well take the empty tanks:p
They had some chemicals and stuff in a box for the fish tanks, but it was sitting outside in the garage for who knows how long, didn't see any expiration dates or anything on them. Think they are still safe to use? It does get pretty hot here in georgia in summer.
Oh I'll be posting up a picture of the filter thing the small tetra tank came with, I think its missing a piece but not really sure. It has what appears to be a place to hook up an air hose, then runs down a plastic cylinder. That plastic cylinder goes into another plastic cylinder which goes down to something that looks like a gravel filter. Oh the plastic cylinder where a carbon cartridge goes in. Is it suppose to have some sort of foam filter anywhere?
Oh I did ask why they were getting rid of the fish stuff, the mother said she got tired of doing water changes. Told me a story about having to drag buckets of water around the house to do water changes. So I mentioned the python and how it worked. Said if she had known she would have kept the gold fish, but since it was given away already. I might as well take the empty tanks:p