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HI guys,
I was thinking about the following idea. As most of us have experienced that when we do a waterchange, we get increased spawning activity of our Apisto's. This could either be because they finally get some decent water, although i am quite sure we all maintain our tanks the best we can. Ofcourse a waterchange serves as a primary purpose of removing excess nutritions. However it also impacts the temperature in our fish tanks, unless you heat your water before you waterchange it to the exact temperature. This would indicate that our fish do react at temperature differences.
Now in the wild temperatures at night fall down quite a lot compared to the temperatures during the day when the sun is shining on the water. I was therefore thinking, would it be a good idea to try and simulate this by putting a time-clock on the heater? Atleast inside my house temperature does not get below 20 degrees celcius, my fish tanks are at about a 24-25 degrees celcius. So i was thinking about turning the heater of at night, so that temperature drops a bit over night, and turn the heater back on as soon as the led lights starts to rise. Do you guys think this will give some added value or am i overthinking things?
Kind regards,
Christian
I was thinking about the following idea. As most of us have experienced that when we do a waterchange, we get increased spawning activity of our Apisto's. This could either be because they finally get some decent water, although i am quite sure we all maintain our tanks the best we can. Ofcourse a waterchange serves as a primary purpose of removing excess nutritions. However it also impacts the temperature in our fish tanks, unless you heat your water before you waterchange it to the exact temperature. This would indicate that our fish do react at temperature differences.
Now in the wild temperatures at night fall down quite a lot compared to the temperatures during the day when the sun is shining on the water. I was therefore thinking, would it be a good idea to try and simulate this by putting a time-clock on the heater? Atleast inside my house temperature does not get below 20 degrees celcius, my fish tanks are at about a 24-25 degrees celcius. So i was thinking about turning the heater of at night, so that temperature drops a bit over night, and turn the heater back on as soon as the led lights starts to rise. Do you guys think this will give some added value or am i overthinking things?
Kind regards,
Christian