Craig,

I live in North Central Oklahoma and when my fish are brought in they stay
in barrels in one of the rooms of the house. I use no heaters, and the room
they are in is usually cooler than the rest of the house and we don't keep
the house that warm. The fish do fine. In fact, sometimes we go away for
ten days and we turn the heat down to 50 degrees. It never really gets down
to 50 inside the house, but the do just fine.

In the winter months if the fish are inside I also don't feed them that much
either, usually only once every other day.

Tom L.L.
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Donald Kerns wrote:

Craig wrote:

I've never heated a bowl or a tank with GF ever. don't recall seeing
anyone else do it either.

Come on over and then you won't be able to say that.
(Cold and Bleak in Boulder Creek, CA)

It doesn't much below 50 here in El Cerrito, CA (across from SF) so I
think they'll be ok.



And on a side note I was curious as to why some people's GF died
(at least that is what some posts claimed) during
the east coast blackout. Why would they die so fast if the filter
stopped for 24 hours? How would that differ than from someone just
not cleaning the tank, you just would not have dirty water circulated
that's all.

If you've got a canister filter that doesn't have any circulation for a
while, it goes anaerobic and can spit out poisonous stuff when the
power comes back on.

Also if you're overstocked and are relying on your airstones, no
airstone = no O2 = dead fish.

thx much for the info.

Craig