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Wooooo!! I LOVE the day before garbage day! Look what I found in someone's trash!

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Pictured above is a 10 gallon tank with decorative foam backing, two heating pads, small kritter keeper, branches w/ base, plants w/ base, foam shelf, three food dishes, and a thermometer! Granted I'm trying to get rid of aquariums and can only really use the branches and plants for Eleanor, but oh well! I love trash night :-D I'm the queen of trash picking... not that I go through people's garbage, but I do seem to notice things when I drive by. I found a hanging stained glass lamp for my uncle once, which is now hanging in his kitchen :-D I'm proud of my unintentional treasure hunting!

you know your a red-neck if.....
JK! rofl. thats awesome. you just picked up like $70 worth of stuff!
that one heck of a 10 gallon. how tall it is?

That's quite a deal, I found a setup like that once, only at a garage sale for $10. If you're going to use it for a snake (which, why the heck wouldn't ya? LOL) Make sure you disinfect it really well. Who knows what diseases were over at that other house! :shock: That wouldn't be good, ya know?

Jennifer

Very cool! I love finding treasures in unexpected places. I once bought a valuable camera at a flea market for $3 because the people didn't know what they had. That's the kind of thing that will make your day.

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Originally Posted by Marla

That's the kind of thing that will make your day.

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I also bought a used Sega Dreamcast for 14 buck today :-D I actually bought one yesterday... and exchanged three different machines until I got a working one... but I did finally get one!! I'm sure the people at the video game store all think I'm crazy!
And I wish I could stick a snake in there, but no more animals for me 'til after college, I promised my boyfriend (we'll already be hiding Eleanor in an apartment next school year, lol). I'll have to hang on to that background thing though, those go for like 30 bucks at pet stores here!
Oh-- and the tank is about 12.5 inches, same as all my other 10 gallons. This wasn't in my town... my trash night is Thursday, and I'm feeling lucky :-D

Ohhh ya, anybody know how to disinfect sticks/logs?

soak it in a diluted bleach solution. then bake it....i think its at 250 degrees for half an hour or something...hopefully someone else will elaborate...

i baked mine at 200 for about 20 minutes, seemed to work well. the driftwood gained a more earthy looking tone, too.

Aaaahhhhh, dumpster diving......a little known art. Amazing some of the things you can find when patrolling the city on a graveyard shift!

Is it ok that it has sphagnum moss on the bottom or will that burn up? And for plants... just soak them? Just a guess, but plastic would melt in an oven right? lol

I have gotten some cool stuff that others are throwing away....

My brother and I use to go behind this electronics store and get all kinds of stuff, dvd players, vcr's, scanners, car sterios, etc..that were thrown away cause they were broke..still in thier boxes too, and take them home and fix them and make a little $. I think it was all returns that did not work... it was this place that sold discontinued stuff...

dang, I should really start dumpster diving
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And I wish I could stick a snake in there, but no more animals for me 'til after college, I promised my boyfriend (we'll already be hiding Eleanor in an apartment next school year, lol).

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I completely understand! =) Mine lives in the closet. =)

Emily

the shop i get my feeders tosses out GREAT hides because they get pooped on. Also, I've found things like water dishes, packs of carpeting that were damaged (only the PACKAGE was damaged :)), and water bottles for rats.

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Originally Posted by RPlank

Aaaahhhhh, dumpster diving......a little known art. Amazing some of the things you can find when patrolling the city on a graveyard shift!

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See if you weren't out harrassing us bikers at the wee hours of the morning and were home in bed like the rest of the world (cept for us crazy bikers) you wouldn't know about the lost art of dumpster diving...

When I was living in AZ my roommate and I were out riding one thursday night and we found two 4' tall speaker boxes with RF's i them (Fosgate speakers)... Talk about trickey... riding down the highway with a 4'X2' speaker box between u and the handlebars lol... but we got them home and they worked perfectly... who knows why someone would throw out the great stuff they do... but like my grandfather told me growin up "one mans trash is another mans gold" :)

I'd like to take this moment to thank all the stupid people out there who throw out perfectly good stuff!

-Chris

i second that thank you.

That's more then 70$ actually. If you figure that log is 25, and it is at the shop here. The heat pad being around 15. Rock water dishes would be quite a bit too. And 25 for the tank and fake background.

What's the fake bg made of? Sellin any of your new found supplies? :)

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Originally Posted by invadertoast

Ohhh ya, anybody know how to disinfect sticks/logs?

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I do the washing, baking part but I also put them in 3 layers of plastic bags with a few pieces of pest strips. I tie all three bags real tight and leave it in the closet for a week. I guess I'm too cautious but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Soaking them in a 1:10 bleach solution always works. If you also bake them then that thing is mor sterile then a doctor's office. I suggest you do the washing first. That will kill most surface bacteria rather quickly, let it soak for 2 hours or so. Then when you bake it you kill anything left, as well as dry it out!. I think it is 350 degrees you'll need, not sure how long.

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Is it ok that it has sphagnum moss on the bottom or will that burn up? And for plants... just soak them? Just a guess, but plastic would melt in an oven right? lol

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Linds, I'd toss the spaghnum moss on top of another substrate. Your snake will go under it and may burn himself on the uth. Yeah, just soak the plastic plants in about a 10% bleach solution. I wouldn't advise you to cook them!!!!

Ever watch that show on the Discovery channel, "Clean Sweep"? They go in and organize someone's cluttered rooms. As part of the process, they sort through stuff and decide to keep, sell, or toss it. Amazing what they will sell or toss.

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Linds, I'd toss the spaghnum moss on top of another substrate. Your snake will go under it and may burn himself on the uth.

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The moss is glued to the base of the logs, which is made out of a round peice of wood. Should I just pick it all off and throw it out?

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What's the fake bg made of? Sellin any of your new found supplies?

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You lookin' to buy? lol, I'd be willing to part with the tank, foam (I think) b/g, foam shelf, the two smaller food dishes, and the kritter keeper... I think I may end up with all my gecko (10 gallons, possibly 20L, stuff stuff stuff) stuff in the classifieds soon... I have this problem where I don't really want to give them to people I know around here because I'll just wanna take them back, lol

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The moss is glued to the base of the logs, which is made out of a round peice of wood. Should I just pick it all off and throw it out?

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I probably would toss it, but that's just me.

I tried to buy some like last year from some place on ebay. That stuff looks so cool

cool find
That's always the best when you find interesting stuff!!
thanks
Rusty