The temperature dropped from 23C to 18C, no casualties but the heater takes a long time to get it back to temp.
Is it a good idea to put a small cup of heavily diluted hot water in there every hour or so?
Details:
– Heater was out since yesterday around 15:00
– 75L heavily planted
– 10 boraras Meath
– 5 Otos
– ?? Red fire Shrimp
Posted by Blumenbeethoven
5 Comments
I wouldn’t worry about it, just allow the heater to slowly bring their temperature back up. I’ve had cherry shrimp outdoors with a much larger temperature swing than that with no issues.
I wouldn’t, like most things aquatic gently does it (unless its something like toxins in the water obvs).
(and if the hot water is heavily diluted it won’t make any difference, by definition)
I guess you could do a (say) 30% water change with water at the right temp but that shrimp looks fine to me.
I wouldn’t, slower temperature changes are less stressful, speeding it up is tempting but could be more dangerous if you rush it. Just don’t feed until the tank is back to normal temperature, they may no eat with a reduce temperature which just leads to the food junking up the tank.
First off, this is a nat geo documentary level video. The lighting, the beautiful red shrimp, chefs kiss.
As for your issue, slow and steady wins the race. No aquatic critters do too terribly well with big shifts in any kind of water parameters including temp. So, just let your heater slowly do its thing. I live in the Midwest USA and we had a huge winter storm last year. Tank was at 75 degrees Fahrenheit before we lost power for an hour and it dropped to 60 over that hour. Power came back on thankfully and heater kicked back and everyone was fine. Try not to overcorrect things when it comes to fish tanks! Slow and steady wins the race. Fish have survived a lot worse than this. 😁
Fish are tough. While they won’t thrive at too low temperatures it also won’t kill them quickly. I once forgot to plug the heater back in for almost a weak and still didn’t have any casualties. As the others already said: let the heater do its job.