Coming out of the cool down.

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Although all my fish get of a slight cool down in the winter, the Gymnogeophagus get a serious cool down in the basement, directly on the floor where water temps dip under 50'F.
Seems to really give them a color boost and fires them up for breeding
Gymno quilero. still cold but warming a little bit every day.


female

Gymno balzani, the cold seems to bulk up the males nuchal hump

 
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Gorgeous fish! Always wanted to get into them but the season change scared me. How cold can they survive? Might make a cool candidate for a small outside pond here in ga
 
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Do you cut back feedings during the cool down period? How about frequency of WCs?
 
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I feed very sparingly during the cool down, small feedings once every 3 days or so, but during the coldest month, I didn't feed at all for about 2 weeks.
Water changes were also small.
I also overwinter my water lilies and some other marginal plants in the basement, and believe they help in reducing nutrients.

decoy50 said:
Do you cut back feedings during the cool down period? How about frequency of WCs?
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They look amazing Duanes.
 
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