What Do You Do About The Tank Temp During Summer?

[Noahs ark6]

I guess you know now you're supposed to dissolve the cube in a cup first now right?

Oh No!!!!!! I didn't know that, i feed my fish frozen food every day but i just throw it in the water. Thanks so much for mentioning that!!

 

[FishBlast]

A heater should only come on when needed to maintain the water at a certain temperature. If the room temperature goes above what you've set it to and the water is the same then it shouldn't be on at all.

You can get fans especially for tanks. They're common in marine tanks where the lights and other equipment can cause a lot of excess heat.

I mean a broken heater.

I saw someone post here that their heater broke and boiled everything. Which means the heater was unable to tell when to stop and kept heating the water until it reached a heat too strong for the fish.

In cases like these, a cooler would be a life saver.

 

[CezzaXV]

I'm doubting a cooler would really be able to fight against a broken heater tbh, but I wouldn't worry about it. It does happen, but it's very rare.

 

[FishBlast]

I'm doubting a cooler would really be able to fight against a broken heater tbh, but I wouldn't worry about it. It does happen, but it's very rare.

Lately, I began to plan ahead of everything. When I was a kid, I've made a lot of mistakes, kind of like leaping before looking. And not just then, but at the beginning of this year I've bought 2 swordtails, I did some research but not enough on them, and then I ended up here but asking something related to fish compatibility.

How I ended up nowadays? Now I'm overthinking everything, to the point that I'm planning on gathering money for a new filter in case this one breaks (and it's like brand new as I only used it less than 3 days before 2012, and it's been used for 3-4 months so far in 2012).

 

[CezzaXV]

It's not a bad idea to have a spare filter and heater in case you need to set up a quarantine tank, but leave that until you've got everything else sorted first.

 

[FishBlast]

It's not a bad idea to have a spare filter and heater in case you need to set up a quarantine tank, but leave that until you've got everything else sorted first.

Yeah, although next time I get my salary I will put aside some money for that purpose. And I'm still waiting for the bank to send that text message. If I don't receive it by Thursday, I'm going there to see what's going on with my card.

And the worst thing I fear at this time is having to move the tank off the table so that mom can put her stupid wood-like sticker because she doesn't like the way the table looks. Of all the stupid things!
I'll have to put the filter in that storage tub I had the fry on, the fry and their cage will be in a bowl until the move is done, and the adult fishes will still be in the tank with like 30% water. Hope that will work out... Last time the tank was moved, my swordie female gave birth (and I suspect these fry to be premature as they were born as small as guppy fry and barely now look like swordtail fry).

Well, at least I would take it as an opportunity for a quite bigger water change on the 12th. I refresh the water with 1.5L once every 2 days between water changes.

 

[FishBlast]

Not sure if they sell this in my country, but is Seachem Ammonia Alert useful enough to replace a liquid test kit? If it's just $6, that would be awesome, says it lasts a year. But many things that sound too good to be true are really not true... Do they have these as Nitrite / Nitrate versions too?

 

[OldMan47]

The ammonia alert kit is something I have yet to try. I am always a bit leery of chemical warning systems that do not use traditional measurement methods. I have no evidence of the kit not working but simply have my own prejudice to place my trust in tests, not gimmicks.

 

[CezzaXV]

Some people here use them. Some say they're no good as they can take quite some time to change if ammonia appears and by then the damage is done, but I wouldn't necessarily consider this a bad thing. Most people don't test their tanks all the time and you're still going to pick it up more quickly than just waiting until the mood happens to take you to test your tank. Not a replacement for a liquid test kit, especially if you're cycling, but they might not be a bad thing to have when your tank is established. Whether they're worth the money though, that's another thing.

 

[FishBlast]

Some people here use them. Some say they're no good as they can take quite some time to change if ammonia appears and by then the damage is done, but I wouldn't necessarily consider this a bad thing. Most people don't test their tanks all the time and you're still going to pick it up more quickly than just waiting until the mood happens to take you to test your tank. Not a replacement for a liquid test kit, especially if you're cycling, but they might not be a bad thing to have when your tank is established. Whether they're worth the money though, that's another thing.

Well, there are these things:

Are there any such machines that can analyze even below the 0 on the liquid test kit for ammonia and nitrite?

Technically there should be, as the water companies seem to be able to analyze below the kit zero.