It shouldn't be that warm! My water is heated to 80 degrees, this feels lukewarm at best. Tropical water is never actually warm as such, it's just not cold! You need a thermometer ASAP.
I did buy one...just tried using it and it kept falling off the side! It won't stick 'cause the tank is plastic- maybe that's why?! Ugh!
Hi, little_mermaid,
just wanted to mention that if floating thermometers won't stick where you can read them, you can get a standing thermometer you can stick in the gravel wherever it's not too obtrusive in your pretty tank but can be easily seen at a glance, perhaps in a front corner and visible from the side.
You'll probably find you form a habit very quickly of checking her temps whenever you go over to her, since they're so important.
As you may or may not know, a temp. change of more than 2 degrees (this for F, anyway, which was designed in degrees perceptible to humans - and fish) can be very stressful to fish, which can develop lowered immune systems and susceptability to disease if there's too much chronic variation in temp, or too low a temp for their needs.
The smaller the quantity of water, the more fast or extreme the variations in conditions, and an even closer watch on these little tanks is essential.
And with such a devoted Loretta fan having her care, I suspect that no detail will pass ignored.
I should add that there are hanging metal thermometers and I have those in a number of my tanks, which I didn't mention because they aren't very pretty, but really, they wouldn't show much at all on the side either as they're so thin as to be barely visible from that angle, and would be more easy to read, too.
Never said I was awake...
