Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard
From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: warmness
Summary: and lack of
Keywords: heat
Message-ID: <3836@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 5 May 88 07:06:43 GMT
References: <3787@gryphon.CTS.COM> <5690@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Distribution: alt
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <5690@spool.cs.wisc.edu> farrens@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Matthew Farrens) writes:
>In article <3787@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>
>>If you ever hear of this happening, let me know. I've never heard of it.
>
>OK, listen up.:-) It happened to us, only not at 2am.  (Actually, I think it did

Ok, so it happened once :-)

>>I've never found a fish that couldnt hack 60 - 90 degree water.
>>Can the heater. Just stow it and see what happens.
>>
>OK, I happen to know of several, because I bought a 2.5 gallon hex-like tank
>for my office and put some hatchets, gouramies, and a cat in it (the furless
>kind.)  However, my office is in a new building and they lower the heat to 
>about 65 at night, so my poor fish were cycling between mid-70's during the 
>day and mid 60's at night.  After a couple of them expressed their displeasure 
>by ceasing to breath, I put a heater in and had no more trouble.  (Except for 
>the hatchets, who *insisted* on jumping out of my covered tank regularly.  You 
>would think they would learn after landing on the floor about the third time!)

Well, you would drag up the worst case wouldnt you ? :-)

a 2 gal tank is very small, and changes temperature real quick
combine this with an artificially cooled building and you have
a good reason to get a heater.

In our place here though, we dont use heat or A/C, and the ambient
temprature is just fine.

-- 
                You've always been the caretaker here.
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard