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Goldfish and Koi Discussions - Care and keeping of goldfish, koi, carp.
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Posted by Dana Taramina on May 14, 2007, 1:00 pm
Please log in for more thread options Yikes. Went away for a night, came home and my water temp was 92
degrees! Fish seemed to be fine though, I honestly thought they'd be
cooked when I opened the hood and got blasted by the heat. Wholly cow.
I had the thermostat set at 71. So I'm off to Big Al's for a new
heater.
Dana
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Posted by Pondmeister on May 14, 2007, 2:21 pm
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Do yourself a favor and get a good brand heater..such as Eheim Jaeger
(Old EBO-Jaeger) but before you buy I would personally buy 2 heaters.
If you need say 150 watts to keep your tank in the right area, buy 2
75 watters or a 100 and a 50 watt. Setting both heaters to achieve the
desired temp will prevent overheating the tank and cooking the fish
lus if one fails and doe snot heat and temp drops its still going to
keep them warmer than none would...2 heatrs is the best way to go
unless you have a high end temp controller...its really cheap
insurance.
On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:00:54 -0400, Dana Taramina
<<>>Yikes. Went away for a night, came home and my water temp was 92
<<>>degrees! Fish seemed to be fine though, I honestly thought they'd be
<<>>cooked when I opened the hood and got blasted by the heat. Wholly cow.
<<>>I had the thermostat set at 71. So I'm off to Big Al's for a new
<<>>heater.
<<>>
<<>>Dana
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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!
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Posted by Pondmeister on May 14, 2007, 9:58 pm
Please log in for more thread options Since you did not state what type of fish you had, if they are nothng
more than goldies, you can more than likely forgo a heater as they can
easily tolerate temps encountered in a typical house environment
without the need for a heater
On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:21:22 -0500, Pondmeister
<<>>Do yourself a favor and get a good brand heater..such as Eheim Jaeger
<<>>(Old EBO-Jaeger) but before you buy I would personally buy 2 heaters.
<<>>If you need say 150 watts to keep your tank in the right area, buy 2
<<>>75 watters or a 100 and a 50 watt. Setting both heaters to achieve the
<<>>desired temp will prevent overheating the tank and cooking the fish
<<>>lus if one fails and doe snot heat and temp drops its still going to
<<>>keep them warmer than none would...2 heatrs is the best way to go
<<>>unless you have a high end temp controller...its really cheap
<<>>insurance.
<<>>
<<>>On Mon, 14 May 2007 13:00:54 -0400, Dana Taramina
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<<>><<>>Yikes. Went away for a night, came home and my water temp was 92
<<>><<>>degrees! Fish seemed to be fine though, I honestly thought they'd be
<<>><<>>cooked when I opened the hood and got blasted by the heat. Wholly cow.
<<>><<>>I had the thermostat set at 71. So I'm off to Big Al's for a new
<<>><<>>heater.
<<>><<>>
<<>><<>>Dana
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<<>>I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!
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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!
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Posted by Dana Taramina on May 14, 2007, 11:36 pm
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 20:58:20 -0500, Pondmeister
>Since you did not state what type of fish you had, if they are nothng
>more than goldies, you can more than likely forgo a heater as they can
>easily tolerate temps encountered in a typical house environment
>without the need for a heater
Sorry. I posted recently about floating upside-down ryukins after
feeding. One of the suggestions was to raise the water temperature,
because I didn't have a heater in the tank. (Thinking, as you suggest
here, that my goldies didn't need one.) That's when I put the heater
back in the tank, and this happened. It's a fairly new heater, but one
of the reasons I took it out of the tank in the first place was that I
found it unreliable. (Always ran higher than I had it set for.) But
nothing like this last episode. Brand name on the heater is "Theo".
(Hubby picked it up fpr me when I asked him to, I didn't buy it
myself.)
Oh, and the fish did seem happier and didn't float as badly when the
water was warmer.
Dana
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Posted by on May 15, 2007, 10:38 am
Please log in for more thread options have you changed the food/ feeding amounts?
>Oh, and the fish did seem happier and didn't float as badly when the
>water was warmer.
>
>Dana
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>more than goldies, you can more than likely forgo a heater as they can
>easily tolerate temps encountered in a typical house environment
>without the need for a heater