glassbird
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Long story short...I have some really old bricks, and would like to use them in my 75 gallon goldfish-only tank when I re-decorate it this winter.
They were dug up when new gas lines were installed in my neighborhood about 2 years ago. They were found 10 to 15 feet deep. I like the "hand-made" look they all have, and grabbed as many as I could. They are all slightly different in size, and not nearly as square edged and uniform as modern bricks. None show any sign of mortar, so I wonder if they were "rejects", or something. They have been stacked in a corner of my yard since then, getting rained and snowed on.
It would be just my luck to find out too late that bricks from the 1920's (or earlier maybe) were made with arsenic, or something.
Any thoughts or experience with old bricks in a tank?
They were dug up when new gas lines were installed in my neighborhood about 2 years ago. They were found 10 to 15 feet deep. I like the "hand-made" look they all have, and grabbed as many as I could. They are all slightly different in size, and not nearly as square edged and uniform as modern bricks. None show any sign of mortar, so I wonder if they were "rejects", or something. They have been stacked in a corner of my yard since then, getting rained and snowed on.
It would be just my luck to find out too late that bricks from the 1920's (or earlier maybe) were made with arsenic, or something.
Any thoughts or experience with old bricks in a tank?