Re: [GSAS-Member] Sad and Hot week/ Bristle nose

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

H Linda-

I am sorry for your loss too. Its hard when you put so much time and money, 
into these tanks, and something like this happens. I had them temps set at 
about 80 to 82 which they are at all the time....the lights were off, for they 
would have porduced extra heat.....BUT it is in the formal dinning room, which 
is one of the rooms which gets the sun from the afternoon until when the sun 
sets....so yes one of the warmest rooms in the house, other than one upstairs. 
So am assuming it got up in the 0's to have done this....and my husband didnt 
open then windows after the sun set, so the house never really cooled off. It 
was sad. *_*

Am still not sure as to what to put in their. I guess I can take my time and 
see whats out their. And then there is the money factor. After the money the 
Duboisi cost, I cant spend anything like that.

Hope yours are doing ok now. I am glad it has cooled down, back to our normal 
weather. YAY!

Trish

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Linda Knapp <linda@bozuk.org> wrote:

> From: Linda Knapp <linda@bozuk.org>
> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Sad and Hot week/ Bristle nose
> To: "Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat" <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
> Date: Monday, August 3, 2009, 9:21 PM
> I wonder how hot the tanks got? I
> have a bunch of bristlenose in my  
> old discus tank which I used to bring up to 84-86 degrees
> when I had  
> Discus in there. I guess the tanks could have gotten up in
> the  mid 90  
> degree range easily.
> 
> I was gone during the Seattle heat wave and so missed out
> on the fun  
> (I was in Foggy San Francisco where the temp topped out at
> 70) The  
> tanks in the hottest part of the house are unfortunately my
> Axolotl  
> and my two Saltwater Nano Tanks. My Axolotl was NOT happy
> even though  
> I had my daughter throwing ice in his tank every chance she
> had. He  
> seems better now but I am still doing frequent water
> changes and  
> adding ice - he likes ICE cubes always! I really need to
> move him to a  
> cooler spot.  My saltwater tanks did ok but  over
> the years I have had  
> the things in them pared down to what would survive hotter
> temps (ie  
> everything else I tried died). I tell you saltwater tanks
> are really  
> not for the faint of heart. I did loose my Bubble
> coral  out of my  
> smallest tank. I wish I had had my daughter switch the
> saltwater tanks  
> to lights off during the day.
> 
> Oh well hopefully we will not get too many more periods
> like that.
> Linda
> 
> 
> On Aug 3, 2009, at 12:50 AM, Steev Ward wrote:
> 
> >
> > I heard from several people who lost Bristlenose
> Plecos during the  
> > heat. I'm starting
> > to think they don't like high temperature.
> >
> > Steev
> >
> > Subject:   Re: [GSAS-Member] Sad and
> Hot week
> >      Date:  Sat, 01 Aug 2009
> 09:58:28 -0700
> >     From:   Shango
> Los <shango@shangolos.com>
> >
> >> Albino
> >>> Bristle nose......
> >
> >
> > Sadly I lost 8 Albino Bristlenose from the heat
> too.  I sold 10 of  
> > them to a
> > friend and they didn't make it back to his house
> through traffic and  
> > the
> > 100+ heat that day.  Such a waste of little life
> forms; and so  
> > surprising
> > too because they are a really resilient species.
> >
> > Luckily, I still have my breeding stock plus two left
> for sale.
> >
> >
> >
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