Minimum Aquarium Size - EU Regulations

"muddyfox" wrote in message
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A few days ago one of the chaps in my LFS told me that the EU were
going to bring in a regulation on the minimum size an aquarium can be
for keeping fish, which seems fairly sensible to me. But then he told
me that the minimum would be about 60-70 litres and all smaller aquaria
would become illegal.

They may be illegal for the stores to sell but you will still be able to do
as you please in your own home. The second hand stores alway have glass
containers of 1/2g and more for around $1 US.

I have a betta which I love very much because he's such a friendly
little guy (lives in a little 22 litre, filtered, heated, tank with
plants and two little corys) and I was thinking of breeding him
eventually (allbeit, in a much larger tank for the breeding) but if I
need 60-70 litres for _each_ of the male fry there's just no way I
could do it. I was thinking about raising the males in little 10 litre
tanks.

Has anyone else heard about this?

If you plan to breed them start to save anything that holds 1/2g or more of
water now. When I bred bettas back in the 60s/70s I kept them in everything
from washed peanut butter jars to large pickle jars. Sometimes restaurants
will give these jars away to anyone who wants them.
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Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
Aquariums since 1952
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
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Thanks Koi-Lo, much appreciate your take on this. The large pickle
jars sound particularly good, especially if you can get them for free!

muddy

"muddyfox" wrote in news:1142025882.604724.14370
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Thanks Koi-Lo, much appreciate your take on this. The large pickle
jars sound particularly good, especially if you can get them for free!

Just make sure it's damn clean. I've had people try to bring live fish in
to the store in poorly rinsed pickle jars, and then wonder why they're DOA.

They were pickled.

Goodness!! I will be careful.

Thanks!

Hey, I just saw you're pond and aquarium pages - fantastic! I love
sites with lots of photo's. Your tropical plant collection looked
really interesting too.

muddy

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heard opining:

"muddyfox" wrote in
news:1142025882.604724.14370 @u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:

Thanks Koi-Lo, much appreciate your take on this. The large pickle
jars sound particularly good, especially if you can get them for
free!

Just make sure it's damn clean. I've had people try to bring live
fish in to the store in poorly rinsed pickle jars, and then wonder
why they're DOA.

They were pickled.
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The stink stays in the lid. The glass jar itself is odorless and clean
after a good washing. I would toss the lids anyway because I never could
get the stinky odor to go away.
--
Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
Aquariums since 1952
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

Moments before spontaneously combusting muddyfox at
was heard opining:

Hey, I just saw you're pond and aquarium pages - fantastic! I love
sites with lots of photo's. Your tropical plant collection looked
really interesting too.
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Thanks! The tanks and plants have the room almost all to themselves. It's
a little paradise in there. :-)
--
Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
Aquariums since 1952
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:46:03 -0600, "Koi-Lo"
wrote:

Moments before spontaneously combusting muddyfox at
was heard opining:

Hey, I just saw you're pond and aquarium pages - fantastic! I love
sites with lots of photo's. Your tropical plant collection looked
really interesting too.
=======================
Thanks! The tanks and plants have the room almost all to themselves. It's
a little paradise in there. :-)

I finally got around to checking out your web page / pictures - nice
stuff. It reminds me of what a short summer we have around these
parts, and what I would do if lived a few hundred miles south of here.

Do you have local or state laws governing outdoor ponds and fish? I
kept some fish in a big tub in one of my gardens one summer and was
informed that I was in violation of state law.

-- Mister Gardener

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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:46:03 -0600, "Koi-Lo"
Thanks! The tanks and plants have the room almost all to
themselves. It's a little paradise in there. :-)
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I finally got around to checking out your web page / pictures - nice
stuff. It reminds me of what a short summer we have around these
parts, and what I would do if lived a few hundred miles south of here.

We have long hot summers here. All my plants get to spend the summer
outside on the porchs or under the trees.

Do you have local or state laws governing outdoor ponds and fish?

No because I live outside any city or town. It's county land. There are
various laws in the cities and towns such as having to have fences, having
the pond so many feet from a property line,...whatever.

I
kept some fish in a big tub in one of my gardens one summer and was
informed that I was in violation of state law.

I never heard of anything like that. What is the law for, to keep down
mosquitoes?
--
Koi-Lo.... frugal ponding since 1995...
Aquariums since 1952
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:05:17 -0600, "Koi-Lo"
wrote:


kept some fish in a big tub in one of my gardens one summer and was
informed that I was in violation of state law.

I never heard of anything like that. What is the law for, to keep down
mosquitoes?

To keep one good heavy rain from washing the pond or tub out and
sending the fish into the natural waterways - streams, lakes, rivers.

The same reason dozens, probably hundreds of fish and plants are not
allowed to be sold here. Like cabomba and elodea - duckweek and
milfoil, etc. There is now a black market for those banned plants,
someone's making good bucks selling them to fish stores who keep them
in a back room.

-- Mister Gardener