Bec Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 Hi all, It appears I forgot to turn on the heater power board Sunday night after my weekly water change! I only noticed because the fish did not all come up and greet me at dinner time (can you blame them ). My conundrum is ... should I add warm water to the tanks and warm them up fast, or just turn the heaters on and let it gradually warm up? Please help... Bec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delyall Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 I would say gradual, adding warm water in might just be too much of a shock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becki Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 I'd do it slowly via the heater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 Ditto. Heater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
girlz0r Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 well, dave almost killed the betta i gave him because he put it in a bowl for a night and that was the night it 3was super cold... he put warm water directly into the bowl. i did a water change and the water was cold, i thought i'd let the ehater warm up, but unfortunately one of the males didn't make it ): unless it's ice cold i say heater too :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishchick Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 as above - just turn on the heater, and treat for whitespot cos you KNOW it's coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted July 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 The water was very cold, about 15 degrees. They looked so miserable and lifeless so I have done a partial change and brought it up to 17 degrees. The fish are now swimming around again so I will leave it at that and have turned the heater to 18. I will turn it to 20 in the morning and go up by a few degrees each day there after until back to 28! Hopefully the change will not be to great for them. There is one who is still lurking at the bottom so I hope he will be OK (he is a sulker at the best of times, and for once he has a good reason to sulk ). Fortunately there are only six Betta's and a few angels and neons affected, none of the females or the imported fish, which are on another side of the room. as above - just turn on the heater, and treat for whitespot cos you KNOW it's coming! I have a good medicine supply built up (thanks to the threads on this forum) and have a bottle of protosomething in there ... should I add it now or wait till they are a bit warmer? Bec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 I would have just plugged the heater at it's normal temperature. It would have taken a few hours to warm the tank up anyway. That would have been sufficient to prevent the fish suffering a temperature shock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted July 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 So shall I put the heater up to 28? The temp is steady on 18 now and the heaters have turned themselves of. It is an unusual setup with two heaters heating all the fish in a three foot tank. It was easy to adjust a couple of degrees gradually as the inner tanks are warmed by the outer tank rather than by direct addition of warm water. The fish look OK atm, and are active compared to earlier. I'm scared to turn the heater up to normal as that would mean a thirteen degree change (probably overnight). I am imagining it would have taken a while to get that cool as I did not notice any change in behavior yesterday evening. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 28 seems a bit high for a community tank. Is it a community tank? I think I might just have assumed that. Gradual temperature change overnight would be fine. But perhaps to about 24 or 26. Even for bettas I think that's a better maintenance temp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted July 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 The tank has a couple of angles and neons in the outer tank ...to be honest I have not thought about the temp for the other fish breeds (just got the angels on Sunday and as the outer tank has been cycled for ages I just added them thinking all tropical fish would be OK at 28). I don't remember why I chose 28 ... must have read it somewhere . When I originally got the fish I had them at 24 but I think I read they get sick if they are to cold so have probably gone 28 to make sure they don't get ill. I will put the heaters back up to 24 ... it will take a few hours to get to that I think, so should be gradual for them. Sounds like 26 might be a better everyday temp though so will raise it to that tomorrow night. Much thanks for the help everyone , and will dose for white spot tomorrow as well, just in case, Bec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted July 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Hi all, Just to let you know all the fish are doing well ... even the sulker is happy today! Bec :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Excellent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracey6565 Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Glad there were no losses Bec :applaud: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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