Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 49, Heat Losses

[Kenneth Combs <ken_combs at sbcglobal.net>]

I'm renting this "psychadelic shack" <thats where its at ;-) >, so can't do anything positive but move out of it... 

KC...let me tell ya bout a place  know, to get in don't take much doe...  ha


----- Original Message ----
From: William Maier <dreammaker2623 at yahoo_com>
To: killifish discussion list <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2007 11:31:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 49, Heat Losses


Have you considered insulating around the fish room to exclude the furnace and hot water heater in it? or just insulate around them so that the heat is not so intense during the summer?
  
Gary Elson or Mary Frauley <fraulels at videotron_ca> wrote:
  

Larry, KC and everyone,

All right, so I suggested expensive air conditioning... not original and
beyond many budgets. But I fought nature for many years in many ways, with
apartments like ovens in summer, cold basement rooms and now a concrete slab
house with a garage too warm for many of my killies without the old AC the
house thankfully came with. Even here in Canada, we get hotter summers than
many African killies ever have to deal with.
For nine years I had a basement that rarely got above 70f, and I kept
killies that flourished there. Now I have a well insulated, more modern room
with the furnace and water heater in it. It never gets below 73f on the
lower rack. With no AC, it'll get to 95 easily in June, July and August.
I've rebuilt racks to keep tanks low to the cooler slab, and have arranged
the room so I can see those tanks and still enjoy them without needing back
surgery. It helps, but without AC, two months of summer heat would limit me
to Chromaphyosemions, a few coastal aphyos and Epiplatys. As is, there are
no more native Canadian fish in my room.
Larry has it right - he's stopped fighting nature and rolled with it. I've
done something similar with keeping Geophagus beside my killies. I still
have species that wait out the summer hovering, but Canadian summers are
short. To me, it's either expensive technology, or only keeping fish that
get through the extremes healthy and can do well in your yearly temperature
range.

Gary


       
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