Housing regulations.

Eupterus

Eupterus

The one who takes a different path.
Jul 22, 2007
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Curious, anyone else live with housing regulations that restrict and size and number of tanks you can keep fish in?>

If so, what are they?...Did you try to cheat them or stay within the rules for fear of being evicted?.
 
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I dont live in a condo/apartment, but my girlfriend used to. She was limited to tanks under 20 gallons, but there was no limit to how many she could have.
 
i think there is someone on here that said they live in an upstairs apartment and have a 100gl tnk.

i cant hav anything over 20, but the managers cant tell the diff between a 20 and a 30 so i have my 25gl 30g(coming soon) and my 10gl. without any probelms
 
at my first apartment, they didn't have any kind of specific fishtank regulations, but they did have a "no pets" rule. technically, you could have a planted tank with no fish and it wouldn't violate the "pets' rule, but they also had rules against waterbeds. i didn't know which category a fishtank fell under and i didn't want to ask, so eventually i moved out to another place with concrete floors and pretty much no rules.
 
I don't think I'd put a 100 gal on a second story without checking into the floor strenght. Better safe then sorry.
 
I live in an on-campus apt. at my university here in GA and I have a 29 gallon. We are only supposed to have 10 gallons and smaller but I've had my tank here since March and have managed to not have any problems. However, I am moving apartments next week, under the cover of darkness of course :-) Speaking of that, can anyone offer any tips on moving such a tank. How much water can I take out and get rid of without risk of cycling the tank? Is a 50 % water change plausible? If not guess I'll just be making several trips with my 5 gallon buckets.
 
2 moves ago, the place I was at considered anything over a 10 gallon tank a "pet" = pay pet deposit. On each pet. I don't know if they had a maximum size, my tank's 38gal and they were fine with it. They didn't like you having more than three official pets in the apartment though, maximum two cats, no dogs. Caged animals also counted as pets. This was a problem when they found out that me and my roommates had between us two cats, two chinchillas, three rats, two mice, three corn snakes, a leopard gecko, two 10 gallon tanks, two betta tanks, and my 38gal fishtank... The big tank and two of the tanks were on the lease. They gave us a week to move out, or get rid of the animals. We ended up rehoming or fostering most of the little guys, gave the small tanks to friends, one of the cats got sent to live with his owner's parents, and I got to keep my chins and fish.

My current apartment doesn't really have a maximum number of pets, as long as they know about any dogs and cats (prefer under two of those, and they don't care if it's in a cage/tank), but I went to ask about larger aquaria anyway, unsure of what the place could support... they ended up deciding that 55gal was the max they'd allow. Apparently the question's never come up before. I know that when I moved in, they wanted to know how big my tank was... maybe no-one else here has a larger fishtank?
 
Here any tank over 50 gallons, the tenant must have renters insurance....:)
 
All our manager has said is, "don't all those tanks make it humid in your apartment?" We never asked if we could have them, we just got them. I think the maintenance guy must have told her about them, because she hasn't been in our apartment since we moved in.
 
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