I need this aquarium stuff gone today!

[GaryE]

I keep seeing facebook messages demanding people pick up aquariums or aquarium gear NOW!!!!

They're ferociously demanding posts.

Is "I need this aquarium gone today" meant to be followed by "before the partner I'm mad at gets home"?

What do you figure? If we say we'll take the stuff off the person's hands, what are the chances we're getting involved in a nasty breakup scenario?

 

[Herpin Man]

Or it was a violation of their lease, and the landlord discovered it.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Most often it is people who are moving and cannot take it with them. I got my first 75 gal. and a bunch of equipment substrate and even fish from couple who was graduating from college and moving a great distance. They had to sell it all. This was in the start of summer in 2003. I still have the AquaClear 200 (now model 50) running today that I bought from them..

They hung out on the same fish forum and in he chat room there that I did back then.

 

[Naughts]

Is "I need this aquarium gone today" meant to be followed by "before the partner I'm mad at gets home"?

Or maybe "because I'm decluttering the garage/shed/spare room and I'll have failed if I can't get rid of stuff straight away"?

 

[Rusty_Shackleford]

Or maybe the watched a bunch of YouTube videos by Father Fish and everything dies so they gave up.

 

[seangee]

Or maybe the watched a bunch of YouTube videos by Father Fish and everything dies so they gave up.

Sadly I think you are right. I'm sure there are genuine cases, I sometimes wonder what would happen to my fish if something happened to me. My wife has no interest and wouldn't know how to start caring for them. Maybe its bad of me not to plan for that .
But it is annoying how many people think they can recover 80-90% of their cost for used equipment.

More puzzling is the amount of ads you see for massive tanks with expensive fish included, advertised as fully operational and include the fish (and must be gone by the weekend!) . Recently I saw two of over 1000 litres, one was marine and one full of African Cichlids. Perhaps some people have more money than sense - i.e. I want a new hobby and need the biggest and best money can buy. But its incomprehesible to me that someone could lay out that amount of money without even realising that sticking a tank like that into a van and plugging it back in when you get home really isn't an option.