Temperature changes with warmer weather

Subject: Temperature changes with warmer weather Wed May 14, 2008 6:34 pm

20Fdegree temp changes night to day are one thing. The heaters can handle that. They are indoors with some ambient climate control.

The 30F degree changes outside, with windows open each day and frost warnings at night, are starting to do bad things to my tanks. Warm spikes on a daily basis are changing the bio-climate in my tanks and I'm looking at a more rapid succession of water changes and more attention to filters and very, very close attention to food (nutrient) input into a tank.

The cichlid tank is warmer and is extremely stable.

The goldfish tank clouded up. (I think it needs more plant material in addition to H2O changes.)

The baby danios are putting up with a bit of algae bloom that persists depite cleaning.
The species must put up with much worse in the Yamuna River.

Other tanks have been more stable with the better attention mentioned above.

Subject: Re: Temperature changes with warmer weather Wed May 14, 2008 6:44 pm

I have never had a temp. problem with my tanks, they may vary 1or2 degrees.
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Subject: RE: Wed May 14, 2008 7:20 pm

This apartment is pretty tight for four tanks, two people and a small dog. The goldfish tank and the baby danios get the most "outside" influence from indirect light and temp stuff from windows.

Just got out the test kit but I'm suspect of an ammonia spike in the goldfish tank.

There is a bit of paranoia here from last summer.
Had discussion with the guys at work that keep both tropicals and wild types on how to stablize temps in prolonged high temps thru August last year.

OK: pH6.8 Ammonia 0.01mg/L

Don't really know what is up yet.
I'm going with a succession of 25%, 50%, 75% water changes, within the next week.

What else could one do?

Subject: Re: Temperature changes with warmer weather Thu May 15, 2008 5:15 pm

Along with that I would try to find out what caused the ammonia to rise. Feed less than normal and see how that works
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Subject: Feeding Fri May 16, 2008 6:46 pm

Tend to overfeed to make sure the "tribe" of corydoras and the nocturnal upside-down catfish get fed.

I'll bet yer' right with the food and up to 5 degrees temp rise daytime.

I've got the weekend to do some aggressive 75% H2O change and such. (carefully)

Thanks for that call. Let you know how it goes.

I've got these now 15 growing giant danios ( How many did the dog drink?)
Any thoughts on what or where they go?

Bio-type tank of the Yamuna? Are turtles involved?

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Subject: yamuna Tue May 20, 2008 4:05 pm

There is a "save the yamuna" website. We could go from there for more homework.

This worlds waterways have taken a beating.
I used to have a book on the fawna of Chesapeak bay that was over 500 pages of unique species.
Most of them are gone now.
The smelt pop. in the Delaware has been sucked into a punp for a nuc. reactor.
The tilapia is dominating cichlid habitate in the Rift valley lakes.
Heck they just put houses down the street here on land around the headwaters of the Wyalusing creek, where people had respected it as such until this past year.
That would be forever, until now.

Yeah let me put a real, and fresh posting on a focused idea like that together. Even a 20 gal long tank could be put to a Bio-type set-up.

You guys with ponds are already there, big-time. We gotta catch up on a table top.

Subject: Re: Temperature changes with warmer weather Wed May 21, 2008 4:42 pm

my room is always 10* hotter than outside because of the tanks and snake racks...

but i none of them are small that the ambient temp changes thier temp... they're all over 100g's... the cold kicks thier arses not the hot... that's why i use 5W per gallon of water in heaters...

Subject: Re: Temperature changes with warmer weather Wed May 21, 2008 6:30 pm

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