Duane and Richard took a car-tow-dolly to Asheboro to pick up Richard's 4Runner....he had taken it to a "mud-event" about a month ago and it didn't survive very well. He had called from the airport saying it was not running very well - so he brought the courtesy car home instead. (blown up engine....) This is Richard after he was working on the vehicle in the hangar yesterday....he wanted a hug....


Seems like this will be a Richard post... he has recently bought a LARGE fish tank and put mostly Oscar-fish in it. Well, there was a feeding accident (to much food spilled into the tank) and it caused the water to foul. I volunteered to clean it out while Duane and Richard went to retrieve the errant vehicle.

The plan was to vacuum the rocks to remove the debris and most of the murky water. To this end, I used a neat little device - a "drill-pump". It's just a small pump you power using the drill - with an "In" and an "Out. One way it suck dirty water out - one way it puts clean water back in.


Here I'm sucking dirty water out from the rocks. I was careful not to suck fish in (although the big fish actually hid in the big rock throughout the operation).
I sucked all up a few inches of water out - the hose was run into the tub to drain.
Then I reversed the hoses and pumped clean, warm water out of a bucket under the faucet in the tub.
Hard to see, but this is one of the oscar-fish - he's about 4 inches long and supposedly will get much larger - eats the small fish you saw above...