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Re: NFC: Re: Re: Cooler water
On 14 Nov 2000, at 1:21, Norman Edelen wrote:
Man! What a score!!
> A friend of mine who know the manager of one of our local grocery stores
> just purchased the stores lobster tank complete with filter and chiller. It
> cost him $175.00, ways 600 pounds empty, and the store personnel are even
> delivering it. He is going to use it to house his feeder goldfish (he owns
> a local fish store.)! What an amazing deal, and what a sad use of that
> wonderful tank!
>
> Norm
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: hy finkelstein <hfinkelstein at Cerritos_edu>
> To: <nfc at actwin_com>
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 10:34 AM
> Subject: NFC: Re: Cooler water
>
>
> Even here in hotter Southern California, I have had success with removing
> the lights and covers of the tanks and having a fan blowing across the
> tanks. Water is much cooler than ambient room temperature.
>
> A second low tech approach is to drop plastic bags filled with ice into the
> tank or drop a plastic pop bottle filled with ice into the tank. Monitor
> the temperature of the tank with a thermometer and adjust accordingly.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Wright Huntley <huntley1 at home_com>
> To: <nfc at actwin_com>
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 10:11 AM
> Subject: NFC: Cooler water
>
>
> > Recently Robert posted a neat article on the Flagfin Shiner, but the
> > temperature requirements were pretty tough for me to maintain.
> >
> > Since this is a common problem with native fishes, I wonder what methods
> > people have evolved to inexpensively deal with the requirements of more
> > temperate fish.
> >
> > Here is sunny CA, even right beside the cool bay, I have problems breeding
> > many W. African killies that come from the highlands of Gabon or the
> > Cameroons. Only for a few short winter months do unheated tanks get down
> low
> > enough for some of them to breed.
> >
> > Air-conditioning my fishroom was a small help, but not enough to really
> get
> > them to spawn.
> >
> > I have done OK with some of our desert killies, because their springs are
> > quite warm. Likewise, red shiners, mollies, etc. have done OK for me.
> >
> > Has anyone ever built an evaporative cooling tower for fish water, or
> > adapted swamp-cooler water to chilling tanks? The cool earth would
> probably
> > make ponds a better solution, but, as a renter, I'm reluctant to make that
> > investment.
> >
> > I'm receptive to any good ideas that folks have found to work. [Oh, yes, I
> > have a huge old refrigerator in my fishroom, but haven't plumbed it as a
> > chiller, yet.]
> >
> > Wright
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Wright Huntley, Fremont CA, USA, 510 612-1467
> >
> > An aquarium is just interactive television for cats.
> >
>
Prost,
Martin
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It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Marta cook up about
a hundred drumsticks, and the guy at the Marineland says, "You can't throw
chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish." Sure they eat fish, if that's all
you give them. Man, wise up.
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