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Posted by swarvegorilla on April 4, 2007, 1:49 am
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Nice dumpster dive dude
> Seems when WAlly World decides to dump items it literally dumps
> them.........in the dumpster. Just happened to be in Wally World, and
> seen they had the fish section barricaded off.....There wa one
> individual pulling all those small potted (2" or so pots) as well as
> the bareroot free floating plants out of all the fish tanks and
> tossing them all into garbage bags. Being the nosey indivudual I am I
> asked if they were going to be handling new plants or what..and the
> reply was they were no going to handle any live plants anymore.......I
> stated well I had intended to buy a few plants but it appears he has
> them all pulled out....(playing dumb is what I was doing) and the
> associate / vendors reply was sorry, but he already had a list of the
> plants he already removed and those cold not be sold and were destined
> to go in the trash just as soon as he was done taking inventory and
> cleaning out the other plants........
>
> Hearing this I decided it may be worth my while to hang around and
> observe........bout 50 minutes later this individual picked up two
> huge garbage baags of stuf he removed from the tanks and placed them
> in a shopping cart, and proceeded to push cart to back of
> store.......I go outside and sure enough he comes out the back entry
> door and goes straight to a large dumpster and tosses the bags in the
> dumpster......Dumpster is just a plaian low construction type dumpster
> they use in this wally world, not a compactor type.......So I go get
> my truck and drop by the dumpster......retreive the two bags that
> were just discarded, as well as a few more good items, and head on
> home. I got quite a haul of perfectly good aquatic plants, and had to
> go setup a few tanks in our gazeebo just to place them all in until I
> decide what I am gong to do with them all.......There is a heap of
> plants there for sure.........Have most of the plants in 40 gal
> breeder tanks (3 of them) and 2 10 gal tanks. I keep the 40 gal
> breeders in the gazeebo all the time anyhow as they are shallow and do
> well with subdued lighting that comes in naturally through lattice
> work or the southern exposure which is relatively pretty well wide
> open.......in the haul of plants was also some nice pieces of
> driftwood.
>
>
> -------
> I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!
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> them.........in the dumpster. Just happened to be in Wally World, and
> seen they had the fish section barricaded off.....There wa one
> individual pulling all those small potted (2" or so pots) as well as
> the bareroot free floating plants out of all the fish tanks and
> tossing them all into garbage bags. Being the nosey indivudual I am I
> asked if they were going to be handling new plants or what..and the
> reply was they were no going to handle any live plants anymore.......I
> stated well I had intended to buy a few plants but it appears he has
> them all pulled out....(playing dumb is what I was doing) and the
> associate / vendors reply was sorry, but he already had a list of the
> plants he already removed and those cold not be sold and were destined
> to go in the trash just as soon as he was done taking inventory and
> cleaning out the other plants........
>
> Hearing this I decided it may be worth my while to hang around and
> observe........bout 50 minutes later this individual picked up two
> huge garbage baags of stuf he removed from the tanks and placed them
> in a shopping cart, and proceeded to push cart to back of
> store.......I go outside and sure enough he comes out the back entry
> door and goes straight to a large dumpster and tosses the bags in the
> dumpster......Dumpster is just a plaian low construction type dumpster
> they use in this wally world, not a compactor type.......So I go get
> my truck and drop by the dumpster......retreive the two bags that
> were just discarded, as well as a few more good items, and head on
> home. I got quite a haul of perfectly good aquatic plants, and had to
> go setup a few tanks in our gazeebo just to place them all in until I
> decide what I am gong to do with them all.......There is a heap of
> plants there for sure.........Have most of the plants in 40 gal
> breeder tanks (3 of them) and 2 10 gal tanks. I keep the 40 gal
> breeders in the gazeebo all the time anyhow as they are shallow and do
> well with subdued lighting that comes in naturally through lattice
> work or the southern exposure which is relatively pretty well wide
> open.......in the haul of plants was also some nice pieces of
> driftwood.
>
>
> -------
> I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!