Does anybody change the temperature of their fish tank so the fish can tell between different seasons?
If so, does it help the breeding of the fish in a tropical tank?
Answers:
Tropical Fish are much happier with a constant temperature. If you are talking about cold water fish and getting them to breed then an out door pond is the best way to go.
Tropical fish do not get much diferential in temperature with seasonal change so you do not need to alter the temperature for then to breed.
I've never heard of that actually.
I only use a heater during the colder months when the water temps drops too low for whatever fish I have. So they get the summer, fall and spring temps. The only tropical fish I have are guppies and a betta. My guppies breed like they are the last of their species any time of the year so it doesn't effect them. And my betta I don't want to breed.
I know there are some fish that will only breed certain times of the year and you can control that yourself using a heater. The rise in temp can trigger spawning.
no - I don't think they need to know about a change in seasons - they are fish - they wouldn't remember anything about it anyway.
I never heard of that either. I think the whole reason for having a thermometer is to keep the temperature constant.
Only if they want to make their fish sick!
Well we have to change ours to reflect the seasons. Like we turn up the heater in the winter, but in the summer don't need it as much and the home has central AC.. Depends on the amount of water too. A 5 gal. tank will get colder /warmer quicker then a 90 gal. And it matters what type of fish.
i know someone who tried to simulate a thunderstorm by making alot of noise and dropping the temperature and putting the light on and off quickly. I think some of the fish bred after that.
If you are trying to breed discus, don't do this .it could be an expensive mistake
nope .. i have a Heater that comes on when its under 70f. ..I have 2 Walking Catfish ..both are 7 years old and live in a 6x2x2 foot tank.
Tell you something, I once cleaned out my daughters goldfish bowl, I thought `For a treat I will put the fish in some warm water while I clean the bowl`... Well, I put the fish in the sink and started to clean the bowl in the bath, after five minutes I had cleaned the bowl and turned to see the fish, at least 3 times bigger than it was when I put it in, also, it was motionless and floating... I panicked (as you do) and quickly popped the fish back into the new bowl of tepid water and put it back into my daughters room, and ran off!
Funnily enough, I thought the fish was dead or had suffered som `fishy brain damage`, but, in the morning the fish was fine.
weird, but a cautionary `tail`!
No. A fish that needs it warm is likely to originate from warm parts of the world and would not experience much in the way of seasonal temperature change. Don't mess with a tropical fish's temperature too far, it would not be good for them.
Thats a no-no. Try to keep the temperature as constant as possible, fish hate changes in temperature and can become stressed.
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Answers:
Tropical Fish are much happier with a constant temperature. If you are talking about cold water fish and getting them to breed then an out door pond is the best way to go.
Tropical fish do not get much diferential in temperature with seasonal change so you do not need to alter the temperature for then to breed.
I've never heard of that actually.
I only use a heater during the colder months when the water temps drops too low for whatever fish I have. So they get the summer, fall and spring temps. The only tropical fish I have are guppies and a betta. My guppies breed like they are the last of their species any time of the year so it doesn't effect them. And my betta I don't want to breed.
I know there are some fish that will only breed certain times of the year and you can control that yourself using a heater. The rise in temp can trigger spawning.
no - I don't think they need to know about a change in seasons - they are fish - they wouldn't remember anything about it anyway.
I never heard of that either. I think the whole reason for having a thermometer is to keep the temperature constant.
Only if they want to make their fish sick!
Well we have to change ours to reflect the seasons. Like we turn up the heater in the winter, but in the summer don't need it as much and the home has central AC.. Depends on the amount of water too. A 5 gal. tank will get colder /warmer quicker then a 90 gal. And it matters what type of fish.
i know someone who tried to simulate a thunderstorm by making alot of noise and dropping the temperature and putting the light on and off quickly. I think some of the fish bred after that.
If you are trying to breed discus, don't do this .it could be an expensive mistake
nope .. i have a Heater that comes on when its under 70f. ..I have 2 Walking Catfish ..both are 7 years old and live in a 6x2x2 foot tank.
Tell you something, I once cleaned out my daughters goldfish bowl, I thought `For a treat I will put the fish in some warm water while I clean the bowl`... Well, I put the fish in the sink and started to clean the bowl in the bath, after five minutes I had cleaned the bowl and turned to see the fish, at least 3 times bigger than it was when I put it in, also, it was motionless and floating... I panicked (as you do) and quickly popped the fish back into the new bowl of tepid water and put it back into my daughters room, and ran off!
Funnily enough, I thought the fish was dead or had suffered som `fishy brain damage`, but, in the morning the fish was fine.
weird, but a cautionary `tail`!
No. A fish that needs it warm is likely to originate from warm parts of the world and would not experience much in the way of seasonal temperature change. Don't mess with a tropical fish's temperature too far, it would not be good for them.
Thats a no-no. Try to keep the temperature as constant as possible, fish hate changes in temperature and can become stressed.
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