can use plastic tub for keeping fish?

[chinmo]

hi guys, i got this tub here, wonder if it can be use to keep fishes long term?

[chinmo]

side view, guys pls give me comments, advice if the tub can or cannot keep marine

[RockyBoy]

Should be no problem except that u have to view the stuffs from the top

[chinmo]

i'm using it more like a refugium. can put 6 inch dsb with around 5-6 inch water left!

[Achilles Tang]

If its PE or PP, its safe as it won't leach out anything. PE or PP is food-grade plastic.

[chinmo]

erm....AT hw to check if it is pe or pp?

[RockyBoy]

This industrial plastic is normally PE or PP. Not that kind of mineral water bottle type of plastic which is soft and leachable

[chinmo]

Thanks rockyboy, was starting to get worried if i use it, any more advice from other guys?

[hypervtec]

bro u so gd leh,got kantow number on the tub,sure muz buy 4D this wed.

[Siput]

U have a good idea there, using it as a refugium; plse let us know how it works out!

[19percula]

bro chinmo cannot afford to buy tank to keep fish instead buy container ah

lol

btw how much it cost u?

size?

[chinmo]

19 bro, the tub is abt 2ft by 1.5ft by 1.5ft, roughly lah hor it is a hard plastic. jus hope that it don't leach toxic into the waters.... if not all the sh can go dried up make medicine liao forgot what price i brought liao, think ard 20 plusplus...

[Nickel]

If my memory serve me well, I recall PP is those brittle plastics. For example, those plastic whistles that kids play with. PE are the 'softer' plastics you use in plastic cup as in those used in water bottle you use in the army.

I would be careful about colored ones as the manufacturing process is such that a colored pigment is used in the injection-moulding process where raw plastics (usually in small granular form and looks like japanese rice) are melted and mixed with the colored pigment to give the colored plastic. Salt water may overtime bleach the plastic and the pigment goes into the water.

I will go for the clear transparent or translucent white plastics type as no colored pigment is added in the manufacturing process.

Carrefour has sale for these tubs now. Dimension is L67.5xW46.5xH39cm. $9.90. Translucent ones with cover.