Temperature!

[Myra]

Okie so i got my tank cycled. I went and bought the 2 guppies and they are doing really great! Just one question! I dont have a heater-didnt think i needed it-and my temp has been anywhere from 78-82. I think thats a lil warm, how can i keep my temp to stay at 78? I cant even keep my light on for my live plant because it warms the water even more. Will a heater help to keep the water temp steady?

thanks,
Myra

 

[raptorrex]

Okie so i got my tank cycled. I went and bought the 2 guppies and they are doing really great! Just one question! I dont have a heater-didnt think i needed it-and my temp has been anywhere from 78-82. I think thats a lil warm, how can i keep my temp to stay at 78? I cant even keep my light on for my live plant because it warms the water even more. Will a heater help to keep the water temp steady?

thanks,
Myra

some use 500mm to 3 litre soda/pop bottles. 3/4 filled with water then frozen. drop/put them in the tank and keep an eye on how the temp drop. if it goes too far, just try the next size smaller bottle, or visa versa. but i wonder if a large oscillating fan that spends most, but not all, of its time blowing at the tank, might also make you more comfortable too! bargain

 

[kribensis12]

Well, that temp seems okay to me. Thats the same temp range i keep my 30 plus guppies in. You can lower it if you want ( by f=putting frozen water in a bottle and letting it float in the tank), or just doing a water change with freezing cold water. I thinky our tank should be fine w/o a heater, and i wouldnt bother with lowering the temp.

 

[Jim Curtis]

Personally I think the giant ice cube idea is a bad one. Your temps are acceptable and drastic temp changes like the ones you would get by dropping in a ton of ice are not good for fish and are only temporary. So unless you intend to constantly monitor and adjust your ice cube amounts I would just let it be.

 

[raptorrex]

Personally I think the giant ice cube idea is a bad one. Your temps are acceptable and drastic temp changes like the ones you would get by dropping in a ton of ice are not good for fish and are only temporary. So unless you intend to constantly monitor and adjust your ice cube amounts I would just let it be.

if you drop a ton if ice in your tank of course you would have problems, but nobody said to do that. this is a perfectly acceptable method of controlling excess temperatures, use by many fishkeepers, for many years. but if you are too dim to work out how to use it sensibly, i guess it would sound like a bad idea. and there seems good evedence to suggest that sudden drops or changes in tempriture, do no harm and my even be good for fish. monitoring would be important, but just untill you know how much the bottle drops the temp and how long it lasts.

 

[Jim Curtis]

My reasoning is the ice dosent last that long. The fix is good for an hour tops. Theres no point in doing it if your not going to keep up with it. And who is going to swap the bottle 12 times a day indefanitly. Its hopeless.

 

[kribensis12]

Thats why i said i wouldnt bother lowering the temp. Its futile, unless you buy a chiller. If your water is that hot that is needs to be chilled constantly, buy a chiller, or quit keeping fish. But, now that its been said, sudden drops of tempuerature arent going ot kill your fish, unless you put the actual fish in freezing cold water. Because, i read in a article 9 cant remeber the name), that in the wild, the temp can flucuate up to 10 degrees in the rivers, and i see no dead fish. Plus, when the sun rises in the morning, it starts to heat up the water, still no d ead fish, and when the sun goes down, the water gets cold fast, still no dead fish. Ice in a bottle isnt a bad idea, if you are temperarly( sp?) doing it, but every day, is just plain STUPID.

As i say before, your water isnt near hot enough to bother them or cause them harm.

 

[Myra]

okie guys! thanks so much for the info!! I will just moniter the temp and if it does get past 82 i will use the soda bottles.