Path: utzoo!hoptoad!pacbell!pyramid!lll-winken!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: Re: How to start keeping Discus Keywords: Jump off a bridge ? Message-ID: <3970@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 12 May 88 18:07:41 GMT References: <966@tellab5.UUCP> <3776@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2961@cognos.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Distribution: alt Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 47 In article <2961@cognos.UUCP> halo@cognos.UUCP (Hal) writes: >In article <3776@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >>(note that since I've only been keeping fish for 18 years I dont >>consider myself qualified to attempt to keep discus. The information >>i have is from what I've read by people who seem to have credability) >> >>clean water >> >>85 degree (F) water >> > >I have to ask the obvious question here. > >Richard, for several postings you have advocated getting rid >of tank heaters. > >Here, you advocate high temperatures (with the proviso that you >don't rerally qualify to keep discus). > Right. I've never kept them. Do you reallythink that if a person says: "this is a rule" it should be unblindingly followed in all cases ? Disc's like it warm. Bettas breed much more readily at 80 F Apistogrammas prefer it above 70. I havn't used a heater since 1971, with no problems, although I would think that keeping marine fish alive under these conditions was sheer luck. Obviously if your water drops down into the 40's or 50's you are living in an igloo and should consider a heater, but in a tank above 30 gals, it's tempreature is not going to fluctuate readily (unless you have incandescent lights), and the high sixties have not, in my experience, been a problem. All readings in farenheit. Ecch. -- noalias went. it really wasn't negotiable richard@gryphon.CTS.COM rutgers!marque!gryphon!richard