[Nhcoll-l] 2 or 3 gallon jars?

[Bentley, Andrew Charles]

Chris

As far as I am aware there is no one who produces glass jars larger than a 1 gallon jar on a commercial basis any longer unless you have the budget to afford the borosilicate jars that are used in European collections.  The closest I have found out there are these 2.5 gallon "barrels" - https://www.katom.com/075-85679.html produced by Anchor Hocking.  Not sure what the lid size is (maybe 120mm) or whether you can find replacements as you will want to get rid of the metal lids they come with.  At almost $30 per jar, they are not cheap but may do the job.  There are other vendors who supply similar.

Some collections have also been toying with using these polycarbonate pails from University Products - https://www.universityproducts.com/polycarbonate-storage-pails-for-wet-collections.html - but they do not have gaskets, do not seal well and are prone to failure when used with alcohol.

We have been using stainless steel tanks from Delta in all of our vertebrate collections for many years now and have never had pushback from our fire marshal about their use in our collection storage facility.  I would be interested in knowing what the justification or worry is with requiring secondary containment of these tanks.  They are much less likely to fail than a large glass jug!!

Hope that helps

Andy

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From: Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> On Behalf Of Chris R Feldman
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 3:45 PM
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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] 2 or 3 gallon jars?

Hello NHCOLL-L-

I need to transfer some older fish specimens into new containers.  Many are in buckets or old 3 gallon glass jars with leaky lids.  They will not fit in 1 gallon jars, and I'm not sure I can put them all in tanks.  Are there good 2 or 3 gallon glass jars still available?  Please advise,

Thanks much!

Chris

P.S.  I am also getting push back from EH&S that my tanks of large fish and herps need to be in secondary containers.  I don't see how this is feasible (or reasonable).  If anyone has been able to push back on this, I would love to hear strategies and language that worked.

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