HOT WEATHER!

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tellemuno

tellemuno

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Man from all this:FIREdevil heat my 3 tanks upstairs temps have jumped up to 88-89 dgs, which it is making me have too change some water to lower the temp and no end to the heat wave for another 5 days or so. just wondering has anyone else experienced or exeriencing this.
 
Its been getting real hot in my area too. I couple of my tanks did raise in temp a few degrees. To help keep the tanks cool, i placed a box fan faceing on the tank. In my case it actually keeps the temp from skyrocketing up. with the fans on the tank my temps been around 79-80 degrees, with out the fans on them the tanks was hitting temps from mid to high 80's.
 
It is supposed to be super hot today. No problems here though Central Air and my tank is in the Basement. Good luck I hink I would die without AC
 
I don't think water in the 90's would kill your fish. There was a heat wave, similar to what's going on right now, back when I was still living in Sacramento. The outside temp was 113 in the day, and cooled to 90 at night. It lasted for two weeks. My big rhom died. The water was 100+ when it died. What I learned is that you need to oxygenate the water. The fish die not from heat, but from suffocation. Plus, water that is 90 won't kill anything that is tropical or subtropical. I currently have snakeheads (I live in Taiwan now) that are living in water from 85-91 degrees. It's subtropical weather here, and the fish are sub tropical. My fish bred last week in 90+ degree water. The eggs took less that 24 hours to hatch as well. These are sub tropical snakeheads. Just make sure it doesn't get past 95 and your ok.
 
One more thing. People will tell you all kinds of BS about your fish dying in 90 degree water and so forth. All kinds of people say that even in the snakehead section of this forum. It's all BS. I have personal experience keeping fish in such water temps. They have guesstimates. Plus, the breeding speaks for itself. Just closely monitor your water, and don't get too close to 100.
 
When I had tank in living room it would go up to 90's during summer when there's a heat wave but as long as you keep it aerated fish would be fine. if you have pygo tanks in living room then you have to watch out for the aggression amount them.
as mentioned above, you can keep a fan there to help with cooling or freeze couple bottle of water and place the frozen bottle in the tank to help cool it down that way. how many bottles depends on bottle size and your tank size.
 
jp80911 said:
When I had tank in living room it would go up to 90's during summer when there's a heat wave but as long as you keep it aerated fish would be fine. if you have pygo tanks in living room then you have to watch out for the aggression amount them.
as mentioned above, you can keep a fan there to help with cooling or freeze couple bottle of water and place the frozen bottle in the tank to help cool it down that way. how many bottles depends on bottle size and your tank size.
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good tip jp!
 
lower the water level in the tanks to increase gas exchange. Allow nitrates to build up until the next low pressure front comes in, then do cool water changes with a plant waterer and they might spawn for you. You'd be simulating the natural rain cycle/ dry season in the amazon. Might want to use breeding mops, or water lillies for the eggs.
 
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