Maintaining Temperature

**Blue Whale** · 20th Apr 2012, 09:03

Realised I haven't been precise on representing the readings to everyone. So here is the breakdown from last night effort.

CFL Temp 42C out of range for my digital thermometer, must be higher.
Water surface 2ft 26.8C,
Mid depth abt 22.5cm from surface 25.5C
Soil surface no measurement. Best est. at 24.4C
Still somework to be done if I want 23C at the bottom.

**Blue Whale** · 20th Apr 2012, 09:05

Originally Posted by xiaofeng90

haha thanks (: , shall visit them since my since my camp at clementi , any infomation on their closing time ?

8pm. Wed Closed. Wahh...envy, I live in Woodlands and works at Airfrieght Center, further from Airport, beside beach.

**Blue Whale** · 20th Apr 2012, 09:14

Originally Posted by xiaofeng90

Oh i see , anyway i using a hopper fan just cool down 2 celcius for my 2ft tank only ): from 30 to 28 my shrimp keep dying not sure is this the reason and my fish and guppy fly are doing fine inside...

Ok you already know I dunno much but read up a lot. Shrimps usually found on mountains, high altitude means lower temp which explains why need low temp. Can be trek trek, find a small pond not necessary clean for shrimps like blue neon...haven't read up on japan shrimps yet but elsewhere there are youtube videos to show this. 2C is average. If you can drop 5C, that would a goal. I still have design plans to drop temp further. Later on, the Henri..xxxx contraption would be whip up by other forumers to drop temp further. A 12k lighting is of course higher temp than CFL Lights, so idea here is reduce or kill heat source, meaning you site the tank differently if necessary for even a 1C. You'd realise how hard even to drop 1C.

**diazman** · 1st May 2012, 18:19

This should be my few final post for this thread. Recently became harder for me to maintain my tank's temperature, so i decommed the shrimps, mosses and just turned into a bare blackwater tank housing ember tetras.. Had my fun with planted tank, now taking a hiatus

**dmateo** · 1st May 2012, 22:59

could it be light too close to the water surface ? This can increase temperature of the water as well. So maybe increase distance of light from water surface will help.

In real environment, is temp fluctuation a bad thing ? I mean this should happen naturally on water body around the world due to changes on season and the morning/night cycle ? If that is the case, what its he benefit of maintaining constant temperature in aquarium ?