Post by Charis on Jan 13, 2007 0:01:37 GMT -5
Okay I finally got thermometers...I know I have had my babies (bettas) a long time to not have thermometers but it was summer and their water never got to cold. I thought about getting the ones that mount on the outside of the glass but those (as convenient as that may be) just didn't seem like the kind of thermometer that would give an accurate reading of the water inside the tank. Plus they only read from like 64 degrees to about 80 degrees. My tanks don't hit those extremes but that wasn't enough space for me. So I ended up with:
Aqua Culture's Aquarium Floating Thermometers
They do have a sunction cup/floater attached and I stuck they to the side of the tank. I didn't want them free floating I want that room for my bettas to swim not the thermometer! They read from 30 degrees up to 110 degrees. My tank never ever hits those extremes (I'd have either betta-sicles or betta filets lol) but I love the thermometer being able to read those temps.
I expected my bettas to hate their new thermometers but shockingly they thought they were toys lol!
Flicker swam up to hit as soon as I put it in and began to swim all around it "investigating" it. Once he deemed it would not eat him (that took about 1 min) He poked at it and flared at it and generally messed with it. Finneas did not care one way or the other. As far as he is concerned his thermometer is another plant that he can't seem to fit all of himself behind lol. Believe me he tried but to his dismay his fins and body can't sticking out from behind it lol.
I know shame on me for not getting them sooner...but hey I have them now.
I also found out that my "feeling" test (I put a clean hand in the bowl and felt the water temp) was actually (to my surprise) pretty accurate. Where I kept the water by feeling it was actually about 70-72 degrees. Not bad. Oh yeah I also have a "heater."
I have a space heater that I keep about three feet from the tanks and pointed at them. It takes about two hours of it going to start increasing the heat in the water. I monitor it about every 15 minutes when I first turn it on (it is slow in the beginning) and about every five once the water has warmed up. Once the water is the desired temp I turn the heater away and keep it on to maintain the room temp at about 80. I keep a box fan pointed at me so there is a distinct hot/cold sides of the room. The fish are happy and I am happy. Works and maintains the temp of the tanks better than I thought it would.
Aqua Culture's Aquarium Floating Thermometers
They do have a sunction cup/floater attached and I stuck they to the side of the tank. I didn't want them free floating I want that room for my bettas to swim not the thermometer! They read from 30 degrees up to 110 degrees. My tank never ever hits those extremes (I'd have either betta-sicles or betta filets lol) but I love the thermometer being able to read those temps.
I expected my bettas to hate their new thermometers but shockingly they thought they were toys lol!
Flicker swam up to hit as soon as I put it in and began to swim all around it "investigating" it. Once he deemed it would not eat him (that took about 1 min) He poked at it and flared at it and generally messed with it. Finneas did not care one way or the other. As far as he is concerned his thermometer is another plant that he can't seem to fit all of himself behind lol. Believe me he tried but to his dismay his fins and body can't sticking out from behind it lol.
I know shame on me for not getting them sooner...but hey I have them now.
I also found out that my "feeling" test (I put a clean hand in the bowl and felt the water temp) was actually (to my surprise) pretty accurate. Where I kept the water by feeling it was actually about 70-72 degrees. Not bad. Oh yeah I also have a "heater."
I have a space heater that I keep about three feet from the tanks and pointed at them. It takes about two hours of it going to start increasing the heat in the water. I monitor it about every 15 minutes when I first turn it on (it is slow in the beginning) and about every five once the water has warmed up. Once the water is the desired temp I turn the heater away and keep it on to maintain the room temp at about 80. I keep a box fan pointed at me so there is a distinct hot/cold sides of the room. The fish are happy and I am happy. Works and maintains the temp of the tanks better than I thought it would.