We're having something of a heatwave here in London and very few houses in the UK have aircon (mind does not!). I have fans running in my three "fish rooms" but the room temp is still sitting at 27c in the rooms with tetras, gouramis, bettas and my ranchu goldfish, with tank temps also sitting at 27c (they obviously won`t drop below room temp).
The room my angelfish are in (with rainbows, corys etc) is at 26c, as is the tank.
For most of them I`m not too as they`re one or two degrees over what they'd usually be set at with the heaters on. The ranchu are probably the larger concern as they normally sit at 22c so a 5c increase is fairly big. They can cope with warmer water but like stability. Their metabolism will probably be going through the roof though.
I'd be grateful for a view on not intervening though. At first I was trying to cool them down but there's no easy way to do that. I use RO water so that will be sitting at room temperate, so water changing wouldn`t help (and the temp would just raise itself anyway). Aquarium fans seem questionably effective at best and expensive to do for every tank.
I think the conclusion I'm coming to is that sometimes it's possible to overthink things and that trying to do anything to bring the temp down, such as floating bottles of ice water in the tanks, is actually more risky than just letting them do their thing - better to have a higher but relatively stable temp that will lower itself as the heat wave cools off, than risk drastic swings in tank temps via doing something?
Thanks.
The room my angelfish are in (with rainbows, corys etc) is at 26c, as is the tank.
For most of them I`m not too as they`re one or two degrees over what they'd usually be set at with the heaters on. The ranchu are probably the larger concern as they normally sit at 22c so a 5c increase is fairly big. They can cope with warmer water but like stability. Their metabolism will probably be going through the roof though.
I'd be grateful for a view on not intervening though. At first I was trying to cool them down but there's no easy way to do that. I use RO water so that will be sitting at room temperate, so water changing wouldn`t help (and the temp would just raise itself anyway). Aquarium fans seem questionably effective at best and expensive to do for every tank.
I think the conclusion I'm coming to is that sometimes it's possible to overthink things and that trying to do anything to bring the temp down, such as floating bottles of ice water in the tanks, is actually more risky than just letting them do their thing - better to have a higher but relatively stable temp that will lower itself as the heat wave cools off, than risk drastic swings in tank temps via doing something?
Thanks.
