Total Tank Crash!!!

[Anonymous]

So my heater malfunctioned and my temp spiked up to 90 degrees.


Luckily, I only lost about half of the school of tiger barbs. The beunos aires made it through just fine.

 

[Len]

Sorry to hear that. 90 isn't terrible. My tank got close to 100. Nothing was the same afterwards. But again, 90 isn't that bad and I'm sure you won't have lasting problems.

 

[Anonymous]

Aw, I am sorry to hear that!

 

[Ben1]

Usually when we hear about crashs from people that have been doing this awhile it some type of equiptment malfunction. Seems to usually be the heater or chiller, or a pump that operates these. Chillers is easy you can just get multiples so if one fails the other keeps it going till you can make the fix. Heaters on the other hand, when they fail on it is hard to fix. I guess one of those controllers thats connects to a module that can page you would be good.

Anyway sorry for the crash.

 

[Anonymous]

Tiger Barbs? Go back to the Freshwater Forum!

Seriously, sorry for the crash.

 

[Anonymous]

obviously this is a good reason to not use heaters.

90F killed fish? I have a tank on a back porch that hits 90F during the summer and higher. not a fish lost.


Even though this appears to be FW those still apply

my .02

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah, and I have to admit I'm surprised it was tiger barbs. You can flippin' beat those fish with a stick and they seem to hang on. 90F never did it with any fish that I saw, either (of course, we didn't heat our tanks, we kept the shop warm).

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah, and I have to admit I'm surprised it was tiger barbs. You can flippin' beat those fish with a stick and they seem to hang on. 90F never did it with any fish that I saw, either (of course, we didn't heat our tanks, we kept the shop warm).

S'not just the heat, it's the lack of O2 that can gork overheated tanks. As the temp goes up, the dissolved O2 goes down.

 

[Anonymous]

I worked shop and warehouse situations where the ambient temperature (the means by which the first shop kept all tanks warm), especially for the tanks on the top rows, would easily top 90F. We didn't have die-offs or tank crashes.

 

[Anonymous]

90° should not crash a fw tank-or even come close-my tanks hit close to 90 daily, in this apt, and the discus tank is kept at a minimum of 88°

at the store, most of our fw tanks were running at about 86°, with spikes close to 88-90° after turning off the ac at night, while the heat from all the ballasts was still radiating out into the fishroom-and the other fish in the discus systems, including cardinals (which are 'supposed' to be 'heat intolerant') do just fine at avg temps from 89-91

something else was the major factor here

 

[Anonymous]

obviously this is a good reason to not use heaters.

90F killed fish? I have a tank on a back porch that hits 90F during the summer and higher. not a fish lost.


Even though this appears to be FW those still apply

my .02

:lol:

summertime heat is one of the BEST reasons to use heaters-especially in areas where the night temps can get drastically lower than daytime temps-temp DROPS are the most prevalent causes of disatrous disease outbreaks (usually ich), and just a sudden 2-3° drop can be the trigger

if you don't realize this, or the absolutely correct logic/husbandry science behind it-you're beyond hope

as usual, your statements on all things fw = FAIL

 

[Anonymous]

So my heater malfunctioned and my temp spiked up to 90 degrees.


Luckily, I only lost about half of the school of tiger barbs. The beunos aires made it through just fine.

barbs generally prefer cooler temps-but they shouldn't have keeled over, if nothing else was amiss-look for another major contributing issue/factor

 

[Anonymous]

Here in Florida, my tank routinely runs close to or at 90 without much problem. I'd be more concerned about wide temperature fluctuations.

I often wonder about these heater failures. Obviously the thermostat becomes faulty, but I wonder if the high heat from the heater releases something from the plastic surrounding the heater into the tank.

 

[Anonymous]

I thought the only way to get rid of tiger barbs was with a blender.

 

[SnowManSnow]

i haven't used a heater for like 3 years haha..for THAT reason

house is temp controlled 24/7 though at 77 mid day to 73 when we at home to 70 at night.

keeps tank at a nice 77 or so

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