Water Temp. 20.5C - CAN????

[salted fish]

Hi......

We have setup a 3 x 2 x 2.5ft Tank in my office and the WATER temp. is 20.5C

Will it be tooooooo cold for my coral and fishes?

PLEASE ADVISE... THANK YOU.

SF

[riot]

No joke. Whats the ambient temp then?

[salted fish]

No joke. Whats the ambient temp then?

no joke....... everyone in my office wear jacket... (raining day... i think will be lower)....

[salted fish]

my office building everyone is complaining... really cold.....

our room temp. is 21-22C (raining day lower)

[Dinosaur]

IMO, use heater to maintain the temp at 26

Thats what I do in my office

Average 22 degree

[salted fish]

So to say that 20.5 - 24C is toooooo cold ?????

[salted fish]

now running the water.. then today when touch the water and find really cold.. ya save up money on chiller and bought a good MH light.

good things is that the building Air-con runs monday-sunday, only mid night till morning is off.. but room still chill... (i ever pop in office around 0700hrs and room still chill.

Office- IMM Jurong.

[Volitan]

IMO, use heater to maintain the temp at 26

Thats what I do in my office

Average 22 degree

How about using MH to increase the temp?

[weileong]

Hi......

We have setup a 3 x 2 x 2.5ft Tank in my office and the WATER temp. is 20.5C

Will it be tooooooo cold for my coral and fishes?

PLEASE ADVISE... THANK YOU.

SF

wow can keep penguin liao.

[pospeh]

Wah, what a waste of valuable electricity. Th company or the building management should be fined!!

[AquaRa]

it's not very cold.

for a whale

[salted fish]

How about using MH to increase the temp?

BUT Max. for MH light is only 5HRS.../day

[salted fish]

wah leow. since using ah kong's money turn on longer la. we poor blokes at home have to count the number of hours because have to pay for electricity bill and you don't have to only on it for 5 hours!!!!!

I understand this from LFS that if MH light more then 5-6hrs will kill the coral.

[salted fish]

Aqua Technic the owner told me.

[Kalib]

I understand this from LFS that if MH light more then 5-6hrs will kill the coral.

I also understand that we must take what the LFS says with a pinch of salt.

I may be no expert but i can tell you that is not true, i've seen pple on their MH for 8hrs a day with no problem.

[blacknails]

Hmmm... Could try keeping cold water marine animals... Like the scallops we eat and tiger prawns... Hahaha..

[salted fish]

male / female?

bothe the lady and male boss say the same thing. only 5-6hrs max.

I think have no choice, must fix heater.... hahahahaha

[FuEl]

You can keep a whole tank of lobsters for seafood.

[Dinosaur]

I understand this from LFS that if MH light more then 5-6hrs will kill the coral.

nonsense ....

My MH is on for 8½ every day

[FuEl]

The point is to slowly acclimatize corals,clams and other photosynthetic organisms to MH lighting or even T5 lighting. A sudden increase in photoperiod or light intensity for the same duration can increase photosynthetic activity to such a point that there will be lots of free radicals being generated by mitochondria in cells. Too much free radicals will lead to oxidative damage of tissue.

Until now my mushrooms are still recovering from the 'burn'.

[Achilles Tang]

My 1600w MH is on for 10 hours daily and that's cutting down from 12 hours already! I should have a tank of dead corals already!

Always take LFS advise with a bucket of salt.

Anyway to answer your 1st question... yes, 20.5C is very cold, too cold for tropical fishes, they'll get stressed. 25c is a good temperature to maintain.

Either that or you can keep cold water fishes from Australia or the Atlantic!

[Dinosaur]

IMO,

Should always take LFS advise with a lorry of salt.

[FuEl]

20.5 degrees celcius..hmm...you can try keeping a whole tank of catalina gobies!

[hammer99]

Hi,

There's way to cold for comfort in Singapore.

Obviously, there's a waste in energy too.

[ah^siao]

like not cold???

20.5 sia... mine only 25.. which chille ru using... keep till so low???