Hi
I am new to this forum - I would be really grateful for any thoughts.
My 60litre, which has been out of action for years, is newly set up and cycling - my issue is that the water temperature sits at between 30 deg cent and 32 all of the time - I live in Singapore and the tank is in a room without air con but that's well ventilated - but being in the tropics the room temp is always very high -high 20s even at night.
Obviously this is much higher than the temps I used to maintain my tanks at in the UK. Should I be concerned? Does anyone have similar experience of keeping fish in these sort of temps in the tropics?
My initial thought was that this is a big problem and wont do - that I will need to invest in a chiller or move it to a room with aircon and keep it on all the time, or at the very least think carefully about only stocking with fish that do well in extremely high temps. However, the more people I speak to here the less I'm concerned - fish keeping is way more common than in the UK, no one uses heaters obviously and at the local fish shops the tanks are all effectively outside, in shade but in open air that is always over 30 and often in the high 30s, so the water must be at least as hot as my tank, but all the various species in the show tanks seem to do great. I asked and they dont do anything to keep them cool, in fact they arent even aware of the temperature in their tanks!
Thanks a lot in advance for any comments,
Cheers
I am new to this forum - I would be really grateful for any thoughts.
My 60litre, which has been out of action for years, is newly set up and cycling - my issue is that the water temperature sits at between 30 deg cent and 32 all of the time - I live in Singapore and the tank is in a room without air con but that's well ventilated - but being in the tropics the room temp is always very high -high 20s even at night.
Obviously this is much higher than the temps I used to maintain my tanks at in the UK. Should I be concerned? Does anyone have similar experience of keeping fish in these sort of temps in the tropics?
My initial thought was that this is a big problem and wont do - that I will need to invest in a chiller or move it to a room with aircon and keep it on all the time, or at the very least think carefully about only stocking with fish that do well in extremely high temps. However, the more people I speak to here the less I'm concerned - fish keeping is way more common than in the UK, no one uses heaters obviously and at the local fish shops the tanks are all effectively outside, in shade but in open air that is always over 30 and often in the high 30s, so the water must be at least as hot as my tank, but all the various species in the show tanks seem to do great. I asked and they dont do anything to keep them cool, in fact they arent even aware of the temperature in their tanks!
Thanks a lot in advance for any comments,
Cheers