Ideal Temp for Tank?

benh · Sep 11, 2009

Hi everyone!

Just got my Axolotl yesterday :happy: (will post pictures soon!!).
My room gets quite a bit of sun during the day, but it's far from sweltering (I'm in England, so no danger of extreme temperatures). I've tried to make sure the tanks not in direct sunlight - the highest temp I've clocked on the thermometer is around 24 C.
Just wondered what's the highest/lowest temp these guys can handle without there being any danger?

Cheers

roud:

Darkmaverick · Sep 11, 2009

Axies can tolerate cold a lot better than heat. Although there have been reports of axies living in ponds that are frozen over, i would go with 5 degree celsius as a safe lower limit. From 4 degree celsius and below, tissue and cell injury can occur.

Axies get very susceptible to illness and stress when exposed to high temperatures. The upper limit of 'acceptable' is 20 degree celsius. Anything above that is very likely to be stressful to the axie and predispose them to secondary infections.

The best temperature range is between 16-18 degree celsius. My tanks are always between this range.

benh · Sep 12, 2009

Thanks for the info Rayson!

Can someone in the UK let me know how often they have to cool their tank? I thought mine would be fine kept at room temperature - as long as I keep an eye on those rare sunny days we get, and have a desk fan at the ready. I'll just have to find the right balance between letting my plants get enough light, whilst not making my lil fella too warm.

Berrie · Sep 13, 2009

I just changed from a glass tank cover to a mesh one, and the general temperature of the tank has dropped 2-3 degrees celcius

blabberwort · Sep 13, 2009

To keep the temp down in our tank we have a homemade mesh cover, a fan and use bottles of ice daily. It's variable how often we add the bottles but i would say at least 3 times a day. We've yet to find a day where we havent had to do this as otherwise the temperature would be to high.

We have found that it's no bother though, it's a habit we have got into. check temp, get a bottle, check temp. get a bottle etc etc. The ideal would be a cooler but to be honest theyre far to expensive to consider for us at the moment

I would suggest if you intend to use bottles of ice that you have at least 3 on the go, as sometimes they dont always ice back up intime of needing them if you only have a couple :happy:

crazyspotty · Sep 16, 2009

Berrie said:
I just changed from a glass tank cover to a mesh one, and the general temperature of the tank has dropped 2-3 degrees celcius

I've been thinking about doing something like this to lower my tanks temperature a bit too, how did u go about it? did u just make the mesh according to the size of your tank??

-thanks

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