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I have a temprature warning thermometer which is set to 27C-32C as the safe zone... of course tempratures don't fluctuate that much I usually see 29.5C-30.2C but this morning my tank reached 32.4C!
Is this safe? What is the maximum the tank temprature can get to before it becomes dangerous to the fish?
I have an old article in TFH which has the water parameters that were taken when the zeb was first discovered in 1989. The one that sticks in my head was the water temp was about 32 and up to 35 at the shore!!!!!
If you want I can dig out the full parameters, pH, conductivity, hardness etc........
Air Temperature 34.5 deg C
Water temperature 32.2 deg C, upto 35 deg at the shoreline
pH 6.5
Conductivity 120 microS/cm
Carbonate hardness 1 deg DH
Fe <0.05mg/l
Measurements taken on the 25/9/1989 by Schliewen & Stawikowski
madmoroccan wrote:
of course tempratures don't fluctuate that much I usually see 29.5C-30.2C but this morning my tank reached 32.4C!
My Eheim buildt in heater went amok last weeek. The temp was 37C (98.6F) before I noticed at feeding time! The fish is all fine, but - don't try this at home kids
I consider myself lucky, and Eheim got a rather harsh mail from me
32°C was caused by outside heat alone, no heater caused this.
This was in a room with the curtains closed, and the room is cooler than outside!
I begin to panic when variables like temprature get out of my control.