Is this Possible?

[Zenn]

I went to a fish store yesterday, to sell my RTB shark and buy a female swordtail and a male guppy... But i saw this Gebbicep in a cold water tank!?!?

It was swimming happily with the goldfish they had on display, but how can this be???

So i ask you people, can Gebbicep's live in coldwaters?

 

[cryosi]

quiet a few do it, for a reson beyond me, really should not be in there! my view!

 

[ryan]

People do keep them in these conditions, they can survive in coldwater tanks but not ponds in the UK. However, when kept in such conditions their growth slows and they become less active, IMO they should never be kept in coldwater.

 

[samthefishman]

Also if it was a indoor shop, it would be kept fairly warm. But if it was outside, and in weather like i am having here, it would completly freeze

 

[copeina]

Many plecos and cories come from higher elevations in Peru. At these elevations, the water temperature is 18 - 20 degrees C, about room temperature where most of us live.

In a large pet shoppe, the goldfish tank is probably too warm for the goldfish, not too cold for the pleco.

/Kris

 

[Zenn]

Well it is indoors, so i can see what you mean, however it would take ages for a tank the size they put him into to warm even to room temp., if i was to make a estimation, because this is a TALL hex shape tank i would have to say it was a good 120 gallon tank they got him in, with several pop eye goldfish(i find pop eye goldfish ugly) but i thought it unusal, because i keep a gebbicep myself, and never thought they could survive in cold water, but then again, mine is still small

 

[K-Holed]

I can't find the article right now. but it beasically told of this guy that kept a plec in an outdoor pond, somewhere in america. It was fine. Unfortunately he hit on some problem several years down the line and it died

 

[Oddball]

I should imagine that A) the store was warm B) the pleco acclimatized and C) he got the monopoly on alge in the trank
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NB dont try that at home