Can a silver arowana survive in cold water? My heater just broke and I wont be able to replace it till wednesday?
Silver Aro
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It will probably be OK. It's not real cold out, you could run your house heater and keep the house at 73 degrees. By doing that it will keep the tank temp from falling below that temp.
When you ga get the new heater, buy two smaller wattage. This protects in two ways, first it will make so you are never without a heater, second with a smaller wattage heater if it sticks on it will not have enough power to "boil" the tank.
When you ga get the new heater, buy two smaller wattage. This protects in two ways, first it will make so you are never without a heater, second with a smaller wattage heater if it sticks on it will not have enough power to "boil" the tank.
I've seen arowana survive in water temps of 19 deg C for several weeks. They were in an outside pond and the weather was especially cold that winter. It didn;t seem to bother them they just stopped eating for two months but they were big ones...
DubaiPond;3059174; said:
Being in a pond and slowly acclimating to that temp is an entirely different situation. Though it does seem to be possible. Midnight got his aro down to 68 degrees, it died after the temp dropped to 62 degrees though.
i killed my aro!!
Bderick67;3059380; said:
How is being in a pond relevant? As long as the fish is in the water as the temp drops it will acclimate. If the tank is of a suitable size for an arrow, his water temp isn't going to plummet so fast and kill his fish unless he lives in a fridge.....
DubaiPond;3059403; said:How is being in a pond relevant? As long as the fish is in the water as the temp drops it will acclimate. If the tank is of a suitable size for an arrow, his water temp isn't going to plummet so fast and kill his fish unless he lives in a fridge.....
Your the one that brought up the pond, do you really believe aros could live for several weeks in an aquarium at 65 degrees?
Didn't your silver die as a result of not properly acclimating to temperature? Maybe that would be a better experience to share with the OP. Advice there could be helpful once the new heater has been installed.