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Haimsey
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25th Jan 08 at 19:12   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Would the fish be ok over night without a heater?

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Oh. OK, thanks

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What you gonna do? Anywhere you can get a heater from at this time of night?

I really need to get a spare for mine incase it ever breaks
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Depends what fish I supose. Happend to mine once. Just kept the central heating in that home higher then usual and got a new one the next day.

All seemed well


Just keep an eye on the temperature, could fill a milk bottle with hot water and float that in there to bring it up slowly if needed etc

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How big is the tank?

When the power went out at mine I emptied out 3 or 4 big bottles of coke and then filled them will really hot water and put them in the tank, replacing them every so often. Kept things warm for a few days until power way back.
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Its on behalf of a friend, he just text me asking if i had one her could borrow but i havnt had heated fish since i was little and my dad looked after them

Cold water fish FTW, cant kill them

Told him maybe pets at home, if its open

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pets at home till 8 i belive,
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
Kept things warm for a few days until power way back.


A few days without power

Worse we've had is 20 hours once
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Sweet

Hes gone to see if he can get one anyways, thaks for replies

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if it's fresh water tank yes the fish will survive, one of our old fresh water fish lasted 6 months without heat and food
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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
Kept things warm for a few days until power way back.


A few days without power

Worse we've had is 20 hours once


He got behind on his bills
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Doesn't surprise me TBH IMO
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
if it's fresh water tank yes the fish will survive, one of our old fresh water fish lasted 6 months without heat and food


no they wont
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well mine did, it just ate the algae
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
well mine did, it just ate the algae


What sort of fish?
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A fair goldfish
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it wasn't a gold fish but something of the same size, not the big ones you get in ponds
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depends on the fish

guppies will be fine at room temp for example

a friends tank heater died a few weeks back and was without power for 3 days. The plec only just survived.
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our heater broke at the thrmometre and cooked the fish, boiled tropical fish ftw
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I had that once before. Had to keep turning it on and off every few hours so it didn't boil them did get quite hot in there before I noticed something was wrong though
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My sister had lots tropical fish, they caught a disease so we had to kill them with strawberry ice-lollies from the freezer because we didnt have anything else cold! lol !
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_phi
My sister had lots tropical fish, they caught a disease so we had to kill them with strawberry ice-lollies from the freezer because we didnt have anything else cold! lol !
i might pay for premium just to have that comment in my sig
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years ago when we had a powercut we wrapped blankets allover the tank .. was fine for 3 days till power came on

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