Temperature Question

[humbos]

I am cycling my tank and have the heating turned off and my themometer reads 23 degrees C which I believe is correct. Is it normal that this time of year that you run a tropical tank with no heating ?
the tank is in my front room and I dont have any heating on yet?

 

[4ftguppy]

I am cycling my tank and have the heating turned off and my themometer reads 23 degrees C which I believe is correct. Is it normal that this time of year that you run a tropical tank with no heating ?
the tank is in my front room and I dont have any heating on yet?

Probably best not to - if you accidently leave a window open overnight, or there is a sudden cold snap, you can chill the tank considerably. This assumes you are keeping normal tropical fish

Some species of course will not mind a bit of cold, but generally not mixed community fish.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

You didnt indicate whether you were cycling with fish or fishless. If doing fishless, raise the temp as it will speed the cycling process. You can push the temp towards 30 degrees C.

 

[humbos]

You didnt indicate whether you were cycling with fish or fishless. If doing fishless, raise the temp as it will speed the cycling process. You can push the temp towards 30 degrees C.

Thats what I thought but some bright spark on another forum told me there was no evidence that it did speed up cycling ...........Doing a mixed cycle been using fishfood for two weeks I've had my Ammonia + Nitrate spikes the Nitrate has been stuck at 1.0 for a few days so I have plopped a 3.5" Goldfish in the cool tank along with the old filter paced in my Juwel filter housing to speed things up a bit.

Amm 0
NitrIte 1
NitraAte 10
Ph 8.0
Temp 23 C

Juwel Record 120 ltrs 6 Live Plants 4 Plastic