What a score.

[Jaseon]

Just nabbed this out of the local recycling centre. I was worried that it might be cracked somewhere, but its fine. I had some strange looks putting it into the car, but i knew it would come up nice with a clean. All the gubbins are there. Im not sure what im going to end up doing with it. Im not a fan of integrated filtration, and black trim but will see. I think it would look nice stripped down. Its a bit of a stretch, but does anyone know the make of this? If im keeping it original i might buy a new light for it. Its not leaking, and looks like its never been cleaned since new. Not a scratch on it. One down side i found a dead nerite. Was hoping it was somehow still alive poor guy .

 

[dean]

Congratulations that’s a great find even if the heater and pump do not work you could still do an emersed scape in it

We live in such a wasteful society

People are lazy and stupid it took more effort to take that to the tip than to whack a pic on Fb marketplace, freegle etc


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[dean]

You’ll have to keep a journal on its journey from rubbish to a beautiful aquarium/ terrarium/ mossarium


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[G H Nelson]

Have a look at the pump head for the make, sometimes it is on there!

 

[Tom72]

I had something similar, y that I picke up for a tenner. You can probably remove all the plastic trim as it has no structural importance and it will make a nice rimless tank. As it curved as well it will look like the Dennerle scaper series

 

[MirandaB]

Congratulations that’s a great find even if the heater and pump do not work you could still do an emersed scape in it

We live in such a wasteful society

People are lazy and stupid it took more effort to take that to the tip than to whack a pic on Fb marketplace, freegle etc


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Speaking from some very recent experience it really isn't people being lazy and stupid for the most part.
Try sticking up a free ad on FB and see how much messing around you get even when you state no delivery and no messing about please.

 

[dean]

I would personally advertise it on freecycle or freegle because too many people use Fb


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[Jaseon]

Funny thing is, i did think the owner of this tank was lazy just by the state it was in. It looked like there was an attempt to scrape the algae off, but it was buzzing. I have a feeling they set it up then just let it run itself into the state i found it in, and then rather than clean it they dumped it.

Either way ill get some nice use out of it. I am leaning towards stripping the plastic off. I have been wanting to have a tank with full moss walls so will keep updating as i go.

 

[Miniandy]

Grumpy wife syndrome...

Honey the tank will look great....
Two months later after zero maintenance the wife takes over