jalisco
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Been up all night keeping the guys in my 20 gallon garage QT as oxygenated and warm as possible.
Temp initially dropped from 79 to 74. The 2 litter bottle filled with 114 degree tap water didn't raise the temp at all. Siphoned off four gallons of salt water and brought it up to 114 degrees on the gas stove. Poured the water into a remotely plumbed separation take and let it overflow back into the QT. That brought temp up to 77 degrees. The tank already has a styrofoam lid due to most of the fish being notorious jumpers. I then wrapped the tank in a big thick comforter.
Every hour I've been siphoning off five gallons and rapidly pouring in back into the QT to create as much turbulence as possible in hopes of raising the DO.
I decided to drink all the cranberry juice and orange juice in the middle of the night to make more hot water bottles to float. The tank had dropped to 75 beore introducing all three hot water bottles. When I check on the tank the next hour the water surrounding the bottles was 84. After siphoning and dumping another 5 gallons the water is 77 throughout the entire collumn.
Is all this addicting more stress or really helping? All my reading last night didn't yield what a dangerous temp drop would be. I did keep reading that fish are sensitive to hypothermia but not what temp differencial can cause it.
Any advise? The power company estimates at least another 4 hours before restoring electrical service.
Temp initially dropped from 79 to 74. The 2 litter bottle filled with 114 degree tap water didn't raise the temp at all. Siphoned off four gallons of salt water and brought it up to 114 degrees on the gas stove. Poured the water into a remotely plumbed separation take and let it overflow back into the QT. That brought temp up to 77 degrees. The tank already has a styrofoam lid due to most of the fish being notorious jumpers. I then wrapped the tank in a big thick comforter.
Every hour I've been siphoning off five gallons and rapidly pouring in back into the QT to create as much turbulence as possible in hopes of raising the DO.
I decided to drink all the cranberry juice and orange juice in the middle of the night to make more hot water bottles to float. The tank had dropped to 75 beore introducing all three hot water bottles. When I check on the tank the next hour the water surrounding the bottles was 84. After siphoning and dumping another 5 gallons the water is 77 throughout the entire collumn.
Is all this addicting more stress or really helping? All my reading last night didn't yield what a dangerous temp drop would be. I did keep reading that fish are sensitive to hypothermia but not what temp differencial can cause it.
Any advise? The power company estimates at least another 4 hours before restoring electrical service.
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