Post by jon carman on Dec 14, 2010 8:44:35 GMT -6
How did everyone make it last night with a fishroom?
The temp in my garage got down to 65 last night with 3 1800w heaters and my 4 ton unit is blowing in there full blast. I have made up my mind that it is time to drop a grand and get insulated garage doors.
If anyone knows a good place to get them let me know. I have checked home depot and lowes, and will probably go with the ones at home depot.
All fish were fine this morning, but my breakers kept tripping last night and I had to set my alarm for every couple hours so I could wake up and check.
I didn't want the great tropheus death of last year to happen again when I lost 28 full grown wild pinneapple tropheus to bloat when I was in Puerto Rico and it got down to 9 or 10 and my breakers tripped. Most of my other fish survived but the tropheus are supper sensitive to changes, especially wild ones.
The first winter I started keeping tanks in my garage, I didn't put any heat out there, and I remeber walking in one morning and seeing a 1/4" of ice in the tank. All the fish were at the bottom frozen. I didn't do anything, and when it warmed up, they all were alive. It was a electric Blue, a couple red zebras, and a yellow lab.
I called a couple fish farms and they said there water temp gets as low as 50 all the time and that their water is deep enough that the fish go down and hang at the bottom. They just don't ship until it warms up and they have a few days to recover.
The temp in my garage got down to 65 last night with 3 1800w heaters and my 4 ton unit is blowing in there full blast. I have made up my mind that it is time to drop a grand and get insulated garage doors.
If anyone knows a good place to get them let me know. I have checked home depot and lowes, and will probably go with the ones at home depot.
All fish were fine this morning, but my breakers kept tripping last night and I had to set my alarm for every couple hours so I could wake up and check.
I didn't want the great tropheus death of last year to happen again when I lost 28 full grown wild pinneapple tropheus to bloat when I was in Puerto Rico and it got down to 9 or 10 and my breakers tripped. Most of my other fish survived but the tropheus are supper sensitive to changes, especially wild ones.
The first winter I started keeping tanks in my garage, I didn't put any heat out there, and I remeber walking in one morning and seeing a 1/4" of ice in the tank. All the fish were at the bottom frozen. I didn't do anything, and when it warmed up, they all were alive. It was a electric Blue, a couple red zebras, and a yellow lab.
I called a couple fish farms and they said there water temp gets as low as 50 all the time and that their water is deep enough that the fish go down and hang at the bottom. They just don't ship until it warms up and they have a few days to recover.
