cold and tropicle together

[spawn]

is it possible to have a combined cold and tropical tank. i.e. have a heater in the tank and keep tropical and cold water fish together?

 

[Kribensis]

well in general, its never wise to mix the two, though i have heard of people who do.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

I personally don't see any reason why not to. People talk about them needing different things but other than food I am unsure what they mean by this and even food is not really a major issue.

If you have coldwater fish that do not require really cool weater and tropical fish at the lower end of tropical, then I thik it should be ok.

I had my tropical tank at 75F at one point because there was coldwater loaches in it. My coldwater tank at the same time was at 73F, so 2F is not much difference to them and 75F is fine for many tropical fish.

However, the question is why? Is it out of necessity? I wouldn't advise buying coldwater fish for a tropical tank but IMO/IME experience it can work. I am unsure of the long-term effects of this as I have read about motabilism increasing thus leading to a shorter life span, but I am sceptical whether this would occur due to a 2F increase.

HTH

 

[spawn]

thankyou for rteplying so quickly. 75f is about the temp im gonna cput my tank at. just want to make sure there wasnt any big probs with this.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

thankyou for rteplying so quickly. 75f is about the temp im gonna cput my tank at. just want to make sure there wasnt any big probs with this.

Does this mean that you have not bought the fish yet?

As I said above, I would not recommend doing it unless you have to. There are 2 different groups for a reason.

 

[Stryker]

My room temp is 21C constant owing to central heating. My coldwater tank is about 23C owing to the lights and pump I guess..... my goldies are fine! in fact for a short while I had to temporarily house a pleco in there, he was fine too.