THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An aquarium ‘war’ is on down south. Just days after news reports appeared that a youngster in Nagercoil had pipped a Russian by making the world’s smallest aquarium, an engineering student in Thiruvananthapuram has staked claim to having ‘built’ an even smaller one.According to Subin S B of Karettu, a first year mechanical engineering student at the Mohandas College of Engineering, near here, his aquarium is 20 millimetres (mm) long, 11 mm wide and under 14 mm in height. Only the tiniest of baby fish can exist in this aquarium, and that too only for a short period of time, says Subin, balancing his tiny creation on the tip of his finger. The ‘aquarium’ is preserved inside a small plastic box.‘’I change the water every four minutes,’’ he says.‘’I’d made the aquarium three years ago. But only recently did it strike me that it could be the smallest after my younger brother Vaisakh showed me the news report,’’ Subin says.He says his aquarium is smaller than the one made by Aneesh Kumar of Nagercoil. Aneesh had reportedly made one that was 22 mm long, 13 mm wide and 16 mm tall. He had overtaken Russian Anatoly Konenko’s aquarium, which was 30 mm long, 24 mm wide and 14 mm tall.
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