LurkingMcLurkerface t1_isp0c12 wrote
Reply to comment by papaloco in TIL eels swim from a lake in Australia through stormwater drains and across the ocean to lay eggs in New Caledonia where they die. Their eggs hatch and make the return journey back to the lake they came from. by Aussiewhiskeydiver
Pulled a 4 foot eel out of the waste water treatment system in work, it either came in as an egg and survived the many chemical treatments and pumps at the front end of the works to get into the waste water treatment stage, where it survived more chemicals and lived long enough to find food and grow to adult size
Or
A 4 foot eel survived being drawn through a number of high speed pumps with impellers spinning at over 1400rpm at a few different stages and then settled down for a nap in the waste water treatment plant.
Both are massively impressive
We released it back to the river, hopefully its doing much better being out of a water treatment facility!!
SlightlyAlmighty t1_ispafww wrote
That's a nice paradox: if it was spawned there, its offsprings will return. Sadly, the cycle will end then, between the blades of the impellers.
If it had passed through the blades unharmed, maybe more will come to spawn there, repeating the cycle and creating more impeller resistant and junk eating eels that would mutate and fight the ninja turtles
surasurasura t1_ispoddd wrote
Or… a bird dropped it
LurkingMcLurkerface t1_ispx8dz wrote
A possibily while small if it had been lifted and dropped, unlikely at 4 foot.
Locally we wouldn't have birds of prey large enough to lift an eel of that weight
Britoz t1_ispm13p wrote
Should've buried it's guts for coconuts
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