Sad find at the landfill
 

I was at our main landfill today and saw something that made me sad. There were several pieces of coral of all sizes in the bin in clear plastic bags. If I could of I would of went dumpster diving to grab them as many of them still looked viable.

To me it looked like someone did a tank shutdown as there were at least 12 pieces of coral of which I recognized a couple pieces of leathers and some hammers and possibly montipora and what looked like maybe Zoa’s on a good sized rock. It’s too bad that person went to that extreme instead of contacting the local community to help out or at least save some coral.

I looked but never saw anything else tank related no fish or equipment but still....

Thats so crazy!

Very disheartening. Sad
They even could have put it on CL for free

Could be different situation though. A couple of months ago, an short lived ad showed up on craigslist with a guy crying out for help as his tank ( at lest 60 -90 gallons )was slowly leaking so all livestock and rocks was free as a result.. immediate action was needed. I did respond ( even had a cel #) but someone else beat me to it. It was very well stocked with a lot of stuff ( fish and corals )somewhere in North Burnaby/Vancouver area. In a town like Prince George, should something like a tank burst happen without a buddy system/contingency plan, say good bye to all your livestock. :neutral:

There is truth in what you say however while we are a small community and while myself and a few others being active on local forums and FB pages the one thing we do have is a relatively tight knit community you let one of us know we will all know within hours. With that being said though we do have a lot of lone wolfs in the community as well. I just hate to see stuff like this happen.

Yes, I think there are a lot of lone wolf reefers out there, even in greater Vancouver. Lots of stuff on craigslist or facebook marketplace , or even some customers who shop at places like J&L, who probably don't care or want to consort with local forums, facebook, mewe etc. I do see some locals on forums like reef2reef or nano-reef, yet they are no where to be seen on canreef so not much of use if something bad happens with a international forum,no physical aid can happen.