librarygirl
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Hi everyone,
A bit of a history: I'm new to fishkeeping, I have a 12 gal bow front tank with 4 Glofish. I've had the fish since April 1. The tank isn't yet cycled (doing daily pwc and API tests, ammonia is <0.25, ph 7.4-7.6, no nitrates/nitrites yet), sorry for the fish-in cycle but PetSmart said nothing about cycling and so I ended up getting fish too early
Anyway, I had the temp at 78. I've researched the "right" temp for freshwater tanks and GloFish and am finding different opinions: for Glofish the sticker on the Petsmart tank said around 70-82 f, but some other sites I've read give different temps (72-80 fahrenheit, 74-78 fah etc). I had it set to 78, then got worried that was too high and it's now at 77. Each time I do a water change or feed I'll test the water and it seems to be holding around that temp (sometimes it feels too cool to me but that's probably just me and I honestly don't know what the right temp would feel like, the water wasn't freezing or hot by any means) and the thermometer seems to be accurate, I hope, so I'll go by that. I might lower it to 76.
Being in New England, the weather changes rapidly. Yesterday the outside temp reached about 78. I live in a fairly large apartment on the top (third) floor, so it can get rather warm in here very quickly, plus it's usually humid here as well. I had the windows open (tank isn't near the window, doesn't get direct sunlight) and the ceiling fan on. Last night I checked the tank's temp and the in-tank thermometer read 80 degrees fahrenheit. I panicked and put the ceiling fan on high (not directly over the tank but in the same room) and opened the tank door that I use to feed and that houses the filter. By this morning the water temp was back down to 78 according to the thermometer. The temp isn't as high today but it's still rather muggy and warm, but the tank is now holding at about 76 (I left the windows open and ceiling fan on today while I was at work).
When should I worry in terms of heat? I do have a large in-wall A/C that I could leave on if needed (I usually do this in the summer for my cat anyway even if I'm at work). And if I needed to get the tank temp down what would I do? How high is too high? Also sometimes in summer heat waves the power could go out (I remember last summer it went out for 7 hours in 90 degree heat), what would I do then?
Just trying to plan ahead. Thanks!
A bit of a history: I'm new to fishkeeping, I have a 12 gal bow front tank with 4 Glofish. I've had the fish since April 1. The tank isn't yet cycled (doing daily pwc and API tests, ammonia is <0.25, ph 7.4-7.6, no nitrates/nitrites yet), sorry for the fish-in cycle but PetSmart said nothing about cycling and so I ended up getting fish too early
Anyway, I had the temp at 78. I've researched the "right" temp for freshwater tanks and GloFish and am finding different opinions: for Glofish the sticker on the Petsmart tank said around 70-82 f, but some other sites I've read give different temps (72-80 fahrenheit, 74-78 fah etc). I had it set to 78, then got worried that was too high and it's now at 77. Each time I do a water change or feed I'll test the water and it seems to be holding around that temp (sometimes it feels too cool to me but that's probably just me and I honestly don't know what the right temp would feel like, the water wasn't freezing or hot by any means) and the thermometer seems to be accurate, I hope, so I'll go by that. I might lower it to 76.
Being in New England, the weather changes rapidly. Yesterday the outside temp reached about 78. I live in a fairly large apartment on the top (third) floor, so it can get rather warm in here very quickly, plus it's usually humid here as well. I had the windows open (tank isn't near the window, doesn't get direct sunlight) and the ceiling fan on. Last night I checked the tank's temp and the in-tank thermometer read 80 degrees fahrenheit. I panicked and put the ceiling fan on high (not directly over the tank but in the same room) and opened the tank door that I use to feed and that houses the filter. By this morning the water temp was back down to 78 according to the thermometer. The temp isn't as high today but it's still rather muggy and warm, but the tank is now holding at about 76 (I left the windows open and ceiling fan on today while I was at work).
When should I worry in terms of heat? I do have a large in-wall A/C that I could leave on if needed (I usually do this in the summer for my cat anyway even if I'm at work). And if I needed to get the tank temp down what would I do? How high is too high? Also sometimes in summer heat waves the power could go out (I remember last summer it went out for 7 hours in 90 degree heat), what would I do then?
Just trying to plan ahead. Thanks!