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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