Sturgeon temp.
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ewurm;679630; said:
Thats a bit presumptuous to think...
But also please note that Sterlet can go up to 85 degrees, 60 to 65 is the best temp to house them in and a preferred temp for adult fish outside of spawning. 70 to 75 is actually the preferred temp for young fish..Room temp unless you live in the tropics fits the fish in most cases 80% of the time. Naturally the tank (Pond) should be placed in a correct area of you house where temps are not warm or rapidly fluctuating.
just because sterlet are small sturgeon type fish, that doesnt mean theyre a home aquaria type fish. Considering theyre used to large bodies of water, if you want to house a sterlet or any kind of sturgeon think it over long and hard, and if you want to invest that much into a fish, you need to provide it with a good sized tank (by its standards, not yours) and if you can do that, you can afford a chiller for sure.
Im completely against keeping sturgeon outside of HUGE tanks and commercial setups
Im completely against keeping sturgeon outside of HUGE tanks and commercial setups
lil_blue;705107; said:
Why do you need a chiller? I'm not disagreeing with your thinking as I agree many should not keep these fish, but there is no need for a chiller so your argument fails right on that point. It is inaccurate.
This argument fails also as all fish aside of ephemeral killifish and a few others live in expansive bodys of water. Sturgeon are not alone in this. To use this in an argument against keeping sturgeon is hypocritical, selective and not valid.
Sorry but just one of these days I'd like to see a true response to why sturgeon should not be kept and not just a bunch of "poly want a cracker" parroting by quoting chillers and big tanks /ponds.
This is not the problem with keeping sturgeon. It is the very inexperienced that think they can keep these fish that is the problem. These fish require a lot of work and a lot of attention. If you need to ask how to keep one then you do not need to be keeping them...It really is as simple as that.
Most people can't keep the proper water temp in a house without a chiller. The reason being for the size tank you need to keep a one (I'm not saying a specific size, but we all know how big these guys get) you'd need a heafty pump to move that much water. A pump that size pushes in a lot of parasitic heat just as a side effect of moving that much water. I would bet a house tank would run in the high 70s to low 80s just on that alone. I'm basing that on large volume tanks I'm currently running. I see temps higher than the ambient air temp all the time on these systems. I wouldn't always run the tank cooler. I'd suggest a seaonal change for them. Run it down into the upper 60's for a few months and let it come back up to the upper 70's for a few. I've seen many captive sturgeon do very well with cycles like that.
