fry_forever!
Fish Herder
Okay, first of all, you have to read the whole thing before answering....
My platy had some ich, so I cranked the temp up to kill it, (which I've done before w/ close monitoring, (temp was at 90F) and my fish were perfectly fine, and the ich was gone very soon.) and then left the tank, because I had company over.
I came back a couple hours later, and the tank was over 100F!!!!!
I turned off the aquarium light, turned down the heater, put an airstone in, put some icecubes in, and opened the lid and pointed a fan towards the tank. I know I shouldn't cool the tank down too much at once, because that will stress out the fish like crazy, but they are literally dying of heat exhaustion!
A couple guppies already died, and the rest of the fish are floating around and gasping at the surface, and I'm trying to aerate the tank the best I can.
Like I said before, I don't want to cool the tank down too fast, because than the fish will die of stress, (like they're already not stressed enough!
) but I also don't want to cool it down too slow, because than the fish will die from the heat!
In half an hour or so, the temp already went down 5 degrees F, which I know is dangerously fast.
This was all a stupid mistake. My heater doesn't have the temps marked down, and I thought that was how much I cranked it up last time. I know I should've been checking on the temp, but I was pretty busy.
Also, I don't need criticism, because I've already given myself enough of that, trust me.
So what should I do? Cool it down quickly and risk death from stress? Or cool it down slowly and risk heat related death?
My platy had some ich, so I cranked the temp up to kill it, (which I've done before w/ close monitoring, (temp was at 90F) and my fish were perfectly fine, and the ich was gone very soon.) and then left the tank, because I had company over.
I came back a couple hours later, and the tank was over 100F!!!!!
I turned off the aquarium light, turned down the heater, put an airstone in, put some icecubes in, and opened the lid and pointed a fan towards the tank. I know I shouldn't cool the tank down too much at once, because that will stress out the fish like crazy, but they are literally dying of heat exhaustion!
A couple guppies already died, and the rest of the fish are floating around and gasping at the surface, and I'm trying to aerate the tank the best I can.
Like I said before, I don't want to cool the tank down too fast, because than the fish will die of stress, (like they're already not stressed enough!
) but I also don't want to cool it down too slow, because than the fish will die from the heat! In half an hour or so, the temp already went down 5 degrees F, which I know is dangerously fast.
This was all a stupid mistake. My heater doesn't have the temps marked down, and I thought that was how much I cranked it up last time. I know I should've been checking on the temp, but I was pretty busy.
Also, I don't need criticism, because I've already given myself enough of that, trust me.
So what should I do? Cool it down quickly and risk death from stress? Or cool it down slowly and risk heat related death?
