Lowest temp aro can take.
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Thanks for the compliments on the pond, it looks even better when all of the plants are bigger and blooming.
meiling- you can keep the koi and goldfish outside all year round, but my uncle has a 800 gallon pond that he built in his basment, and he brings all of the scaless koi inside and all of the tropical fish.
meiling- you can keep the koi and goldfish outside all year round, but my uncle has a 800 gallon pond that he built in his basment, and he brings all of the scaless koi inside and all of the tropical fish.
seriously, I was told aro's need to be 78-82 F. I don't have a pond and we can have as much as a 50 degree change outside in one day, I try to climate control the room, but yesterday, the tankt was up to 83.7 due to heat . I'm getting an air conditioner, but wanted to know how hot is dangerous?
The problem is not the heat but the oxygen content in the water. Oxygen dissolves faster in a warm tank, so lots of aeration is recommended to turn over the water to collect oxygen from the surface. Then again, very HOT water could cook your fish no matter how much aeration is in there... I believe that tank temperature up to 90's with lots of aeration is still safe, over a 100 is a different thing. Some people add ice cubes to cool off the water, but I never had to deal with temperatures that high, because my heaters are off during the warm months to save on the electric bill. 
umm, it gets to -50F with many feet of snow here oct-march, Thanks for the tip, I just wondered about a pond in the summer but there's too much wildlife that would eat him-bald eagles, goldens, owls, cougar, blah blah so he's banished to the indoors until I win the lotto.
