I would have asked in the RTC thread, but it seems as though it is not answered very much. I am from bham, al and my buddy has a very large pond in his front yard, and he is wanting an RTC to go in it, maybe 2 (This is a man made pond like something you would fish out of and its fed from a natural spring from up the road). My question is what is the lowest temperature that an RTC can handle? He was thinking about figuring out a way to heat it but have not come up with an efficient way yet. He was thinking heating coils, but I don't know how expensive it would be its thousands of gallons of water. It has normal pond fish in it like large mouth bass, bluegill, shell cracker that sort of thing. I was telling him that they would probably not be able to survive in that, what do you guys think?
RTC TEMPERATURE ?
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It probably won't survive the winter season. For RTCs to be comfortable, I wouldn't go down pass 72F, but they are pretty tough Cats and can probably stand water as cold as 65F, but not for long periods of time.