Fish eating away at 6 Celsius
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What is your air thing a tube or a stone .Seems to really give off a lot of air .
Hailea ACO 318 Air Pump with a large stone.
Great little pump, no issues with it for that price.
For an extra few bucks go for the Hailea ACO-328 Air Pump, 70l / min 4200 L/H.
Definitely going to order it that come spring.
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Not surprising, especially for Goldfish. That 6C temperature IS water temperature, right?
I just checked, its 8.3C now. It was 6C yesterday. Some very mild weather past few days.
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My pond is now 10C (50F) cause of the heater. The fish are eating once a day but I feed them every other day cold weather food. The weather has been not bad this winter so far... I'm waiting to see my electric bill before I decide to remove the heater to put back my thermocube to control the electrical spending on heating.
Would like to buy a heater myself but never got around to it. I use an old kettle and boiled some pond water once it reaches under 6C. 7-8 boils i can get it back to around 7C. Better than nothing i guess.
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Ditch the heater and boiling water, provide good gas exchange. Your fish will be fine.
My goldfish do fine for 6 months under ice cover at 0.5C.
Feed them if you have open water, if you like.
My fish don't get fed.
My goldfish do fine for 6 months under ice cover at 0.5C.
Feed them if you have open water, if you like.
My fish don't get fed.