Are chillers a prerequisite to most shrimp

[ineke]

Hi All,

I keep my tanks in a spare room at home with ducted air conditioning, as soon as it gets to 30 degrees in the main room -the spare room always remains cooler - the air conditioner goes on. I wonder if this would be enough to be able to keep CRS and CBS?

Cheers

Ineke

[sajica]

It depends. You'd have to monitor the tank temperature not the air temp. Generally tanks will sit at ambient/ room temperature. 30 degrees is too high for CRS/CBS. Most try and keep the temp around 23-25 degrees. That is pretty much only possible with a chiller. Also bare in mind using the aircon during the day is going to be ok, but if you turn it off and have a hot night, a couple of degrees fluctuation can be enough to stress the shrimp out.

[ineke]

Thanks Sajica , I am in Adelaide and we are expecting some hot weather next week so I might do some hourly checks on my tanks to see water temp fluctuations. But I get what you say about hot nights, will have to think about that one now.

Cheers

Ineke

[Daydream]

I use aircon on my fish /shrimp room 24/7 top tanks sit 26deg bottom on23deg constant for mts sufferers arcon may be cheeper to run than heating and or chilling.

[ineke]

Thanks for that will still check out my tanks next week when it is supposed to be hot. Haven't used this room for a while so no real idea how warm it gets.

Cheers

Ineke