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I've read and read on T5 bulbs and now my brain hurts. I need to sort out my neglected 130 litre. I had a Power Glo and Aqua Glo, my Power Glo went pop and the Aqua Glo is on it's way out. I've replaced the Power Glo with a Life Glo but what to stick where the Aqua Glo is? I do low maintenance...

Why would I willingly torture a Goldfish? Besides, my local aquatic stores won't sell Goldfish to unfiltered tanks anyway, and have quite a few huge ones in too. I should never have to test for ammonia in my tanks. I have never had a Goldfish in a bowl. My parents had a brain and knew it was...

Yes it does. Keep a big growing fish in a small environment with fluctuating water quality it will become stressed. A pond/lake cannot be compared to a glass bowl sitting on a table. Ponds and lakes are FILTERED by rains, plants and earth, and the bacteria within the earth. Bowls are stagnant...

But doing this enough to keep a miserable Goldfish alive in a small unfiltered container will result in a stressed fish, water changes are a shock to fish and the size and quantity you'd need to do would be vastly more than in a proper establish BIG tank or a good sized established pond. And...

with common/comet Goldfish easily hitting 10" in the correct conditions, fancies at least 6", not including the tail, there is no way that kind of chunk should ever live in a 10L bowl. yes their growth slows and gets stunted, but that's by water quality NOT tank size. if you kept a small...

So far as I see it, if this little petition got enough votes to go up before the Government they would be forced to have a similar discussion as all you guys have just done and surely that would be a good thing? I still hear of secondary school science experiments involving teachers handing out...

I kept a Betta in a bowl, not a Goldfish, the thing got ich and fin rot, did my research and upgraded him to a 5 gallon proper filtered, heated tank, had him for a few years in the end! I wouldn't have done if he'd stayed in the bowl. I'm a big rabbit keeper too, big on rabbit welfare! This is...

This is why shops can't be entirely relied on to give out proper info, the bad apples out there will still sell things that they can get away with. I have no problem with glass bowls instead being sold as vases, that's fine, things like this are the problem and still sold in many pet shops as...

the point of the petition was not to set a minimum tank size (which would indeed be impossible to enforce) but to restrict sales of very small unfiltered bowls as fish tanks. the bit at the bottom was merely a mini-rant at how much space these fish need. take away the possibility of buying a 1...

considering a common or comet Goldfish gets huge and is as messy as an Oscar, yes! this is the problem, no one wants to admit how much space fish like these really need.

was there a need for that, Gill? ever heard of "if you haven't got anything nice to say...don't say it"? yes there are about a dozen different routes and this is one. I don't see a ban on a fish over 30cm happening, that would put a dampener on Koi sales for sure...

Hi all! I popped this e-petition on the Government's website, sign if you agree! http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/11399

There was an article in a paper (forget what one, maybe Observer? Sunday papers, was at me mum's house) that made me a bit angry. Was about all these super pricey tanks, including planted tanks, and how it's almost exclusively for men. I was reading it and shouting at it at the same time! There...

I'm a girl! I get cross it's so male dominated, but what can you do? Maybe because there is so much science tech stuff involved (which makes my mind boggle, so I wing it instead) and gooey stinky things too, girls don't want to get their hands dirty? My mum and auntie are fanatic terrestrial...

I was thinking Rainbowfish, my local Maidenhead has a real assortment of them, was unsure of their current-friendlyness. Will definitely bare these guys in mind though, they are stunning little things!