Re: [GSAS-Member] Hot summer temps

[Trish <snips36@yahoo.com>]

I wos gone on all week until Thursday afternoon. But my husband was home. And 
did have all the windows closed, with blinds down and curtains drawn, and also 
fans going throught the house, and when the sun went down everyhting got opend 
up..He fed just once while I was gone....BUT he didnt think to add ice or do 
water changes...see these are "my" fish, and he says if I want them I care for 
them. He does help when I need him, like to move heavy heavy rocks, but thats 
about it....If I would have been home I would have done water changes, that 
would have made the dfference.

I wont be gone next time they call for high temps like that, or power 
outages....

Trish

--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Mary Sodawasser <themaryone@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mary Sodawasser <themaryone@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [GSAS-Member] Hot summer temps
> To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
> Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 7:11 PM
> Hi all,
>    I have seven freshwater community
> tanks. They vary in size from 150 gallon
> to ten gallon. The hottest day here was 
> 106 outside and we kept it down to 92
> inside. Once the sun was down all windows 
> were thrown wide open with a fan in 
> every room. Then during the day all blinds
> and windows closed with blankets over the 
> skylights. I went through 15 blocks of ice. I 
> just broke them in half and put them in freezer
> bags and floated them on top. I kept all lights 
> off. I also did a twenty percent water change
> a few times with cold water. I fed vary sparingly.
> My tanks never got above 82 degrees. Once they 
> would hit that point I was cooling down with ice. It was 
> a lot of work on Wednesday and Thursday but I didn't loose
> anything. So it was all worth it. My plants didn't seem to
> suffer they just didn't grow. Less trimming this week :D
>  
> 
> 
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