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don't you wish you could have a huge aquarium at college? I do. I would sit and look at it every day.

Some colleges do have nice large tanks. It's usually ones with big budgets or good oceanography/marine biology/ichthyology programs. In fact, Mike Paletta's book "Ultimate Marine Aquariums" features a large tank some college maintains.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

I think he means like a dorm aquarium larger than 10 gallons (which is the limit for most colleges). I just bought a 10 gallon tank for my dorm, and I'm pretty satisfied with it. But then again, pretty much all of the fish I like are able to live in a 10 gallon. I suppose if you like big cichlids and stuff like that you won't be too happy.

It seems, however, that a tank larger than 10 gallons would be hard to maintain in a dorm setting. Even with my tank, I'm still trying to figure out where I'm going to dump the buckets of water (in the sink or shower?). Also, filling a large tank back up after a water change would be tedious, because I don't think your neighbors would appreciate you hooking up a Python to a bathroom sink (or running to bathroom and back dozens of times with buckets of water, for that matter).

While the tank size limit can be frustrating, I think they do it in the common interest of everyone else in the dorm. Also, I don't know about you, but my dorm doesn't even have room for anything much bigger than a 10 gallon.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Yeah, exactly what I mean Natalie. I could keep a big 30 gallon if I really wanted to, but it would not be a cofortable feeling in my room. I also have a hard time dealing with the question, "what would I do with my fish when I am required to move out?". Especially if I had a 30 g. though even with a 10 could pose difficult. By the way do you have a plan for that? Also, what do you keep in that 10? I'm feeling slightly inspired... (uh oh)

I'm going to keep a shaol of Tanichthys micagemmae in mine. I've thought about the moving issue, but I'm not too worried about it. White Clouds are hardy fish, and my school is only a little over an hour away from my house, so transporting them home for long holidays shouldn't be much of an issue.

Also, because they are small, peaceful fish, they can just go in one of my community tanks temporarily while I'm at home.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Make sure you've got somewhat of a locked room if you keep that fishtank. Either that, or don't make any friends. During welcome week, me and several floormates had just come back from rushing, and one of them was so tipsy he attempted giving the RA's betta (kept in the 1st floor laundry room) the rest of his can. Trouble ensued.

I'm in an evironmentally themed dorm, so pretty much everyone I've met around me has at least some respect for animals it seems.

Also, my roommate isn't some crazy party girl, so I doubt she'd have any excessively irresponsible people in the room.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Well, at Davis, it's to be expected. So tell me, how long does it take to get to class by cow?

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At least we don't murder each other.

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I'm not your neighbor, you Bakersfield trash.

Yeah, that's pretty messed up. At least where I go to college, most of the violent crime is off-campus and not committed by students. Though with classmates like mine, they're probably too dumb to break the law. I can't wait to break out of the Gen. Ed. stuff.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

By the second week of school, we already had one homocide and two cases of mugging reported. Good thing I'm a strapping young lad, otherwise, I'd be in trouble.

So I've been doing some really hard thinking. I've decided I wanna go with a 20 gallon or none at all. My thoughts are that I will be able to do pretty much anything I want with a 20, whereas if I set up a 10 I don't really have an aquarium... just a nice sized tank. I came to this conclusion when my friend just last week set up a 20 long.... it is absolutely awesome. Any ideas for a 20L? I'm thinking I want to keep it understocked and possibly go for some sort of more agressive fish

Let me know what you think...