non heated tank?? what kind of occupants??

[BumbleBee Odyssey]

hi guys... just interest a friend is giving me a 2ft tank but i dont have money atm for a heater ... is there any nice coloured/ orr odd bally fish you could have in there and breed? i dont mind if they are commonish... something a little different but not hard to get would be cool also....

any suggestions? can this be done simply seting up a tank with no heater and just go? or i heard something about a chiller?

i'm not sure

thanx guys
kel

 

[ingo_1978]

I have a couple of weather loaches, also know as Dojos, in my cold water tank. They're a bit different to the usual coldwater fish.

http/www.aquahobby.com/gallery/gdojo.html

 

[CFC]

The only oddball type fish i can think of that can live in a unheated tank are hill stream loaches, often called Borneo suckers, Hong kong plecs or butterfly plecs.

Zebra danios, guppies, bronze peppered and albino Corydoras, white cloud mountain minnows, rosey barbs, weather loaches (dojo loach) and Chinese sucking loaches can all live in unheated indoor tanks too.

 

[Clare]

Or maybe Axelotls? You would need to keep the room at a warm temperature but they live in cooler water and are great little characters with their legs and lovely gills. They can live with the loaches too.
Clare

 

[BumbleBee Odyssey]

how big do all those guys get.... ok for a 2 ft tank? are they breedable?

ummm ohh are they available in australia do you know?

thanx guys
kel

 

[SirMinion]

If you cannot afford a heater, how are you going to pay for the fish, fish food, substrate, plants and/or rocks and/or decor and all the other bits & bobs needed for fishkeeping??

 

[BumbleBee Odyssey]

i already have.... mmm 5 tanks going i have spair substrate etc... heaps of food and as for the occupant... well that was yet to come... (that is why i am doing my research )

i simply thought something cold water would be new for me as i am running african and american tanks atm... so if i cant get the heater now maybe i should flow with that... introduce myself into something new...

 

[BumbleBee Odyssey]

ohhh also my partner owns a oddball tropical tank, a marine tank, a south american and african annnd ... what'd he say... a live bearers tank... soo lotsa foods sands etc...

just havnt delved into cold water before... thought i'd ask... before i put some poor soul into the wrong conditions...

thats all

 

[BumbleBee Odyssey]

how hard are axolotils to breed?... i'v always wanted a pair.... (mmm maybe if i do end up getting that heater just make sure i get it before summer ends..(we'r only heading into spring sooo awhile yet) )

mmmm oooww that would be prefect!
any info guys??

thanx kel

 

[Paul_MTS]

all i know about axelolts is that there pretty dumb so you have to have a specific substrate;

sand
large stones -NOT gravel
or nothing

this being because if the scrap around in gravel they eat the gravel and they get it stuck in them!!

at work we have them in a half filled tank, there are arangements of slate to make hiding places and areas out the water.

we feed them frozen lancer fish, well the weekend boy that keeps them usualy hand feeds them otherwise the food just ends up floating around.