My Poor Very Warm Little Darlings!

[Twinklecaz]

When I got home about an hour ago my tank temp was 32 degrees!!!!!!

I know we have a few topics on this already just wanted to say UK people (specially in the south east) that they've said this weekend temps won't even cool down much at night (someone told me it's a proper offical weather warning?)......just so you know so you can take precautions (if poss) to keep your tanks cool (er)

 

[scotty]

move your tanks to scotland,we don't have much bother with temps,only weather warnings we get are bad ones

 

[Twinklecaz]

LOl! Good idea!

 

[Assaye]

Currently running a tropical tank with no heater. Even at night the temp isn't dropping below 25C. Glad the heater decided to burn out in the summer and not the winter!

 

[Twinklecaz]

Ha yeah. Mine (with the exception of when I've done quite big water changes with cold water) hasn't come on in the nearly 3 weeks I've had my fish!

 

[BethK]

turn your heater down, keep the curtains in the room where your tank is,closed, put a fan in the room

 

[AstonN24vantage]

are your fish still okay?

 

[Inchworm]

We've been having the same problem in New York. It hit 103 F. a couple of days ago and has been high ever since. I've had to keep the air conditioner running on low both day and night to keep the tanks in the low 70s. The good news is that I've just been rewarded by finding a big batch of cory eggs in one of them.

 

[CrystalClear16]

My tank hasn't been below 80F for ages now. I even turned my heater off for a week to check it was working ok!

I have an air stone, keep the lights off during the day and am keeping an eye on my fish. Their behaviour hasn't changed so it seems the extra few degrees doesn't bother them.

 

[jameshughes1989]

Im in the south east of the UK. I keep the window open but curtains shut, open tank lid and have an airstone going. It does seem to do the trick, but sometimes gets up to 28/29

I'll have to see how it goes, its meant to be blooming hot later

 

[SlyPolak]

AC anyone

 

[Twinklecaz]

AC?

Yeah my fish seem ok, I haven't actually had them in cooler weather yet so I dunno if their behaviour's different lol.

Keeping the curtians shut with the windown open (and the door open too so the air ciculates) is what I've been doing too. To be honest I'm finding the best thing is a 10-50% water change with cold water.

 

[SlyPolak]

AC?

Air Conditioning...... you know, the cold air that blows out of a machine to a desired setting... lol

 

[ian]

why would we have air con in England, we have 6 hot days a year.

 

[Asp]

Air conditioning? In England???


In all seriousness I've unplugged all my tank heaters and, with a fan to encourage a breeze and blinds at least partially drawn I'm managing to keep the tanks at about 24-26 down in south London.

I've had two whitecloud fatalities (in a shoal of 11), but they were being kept as cleanup crew for some baby mud turtles in a relatively shallow body of water, so I think that the temp. would affect them faster than the larger tanks.