Because I always forget how many people will just read headlines and never do any actual research for themselves.

What about Betta the one sold at stores are captive bred half the time unlike the macrostoma or imbelius

Kira Doom12 caprice raises betta splendens typically come from tropical counties and this are used to warmer temps than we have here in the USA. Wild caught species do well at lower temps in my experience. As well as locally bred splendens.

We here in New England tend to lose our heat more often then every 5 years (often due to my own forgetfulness in buying oil. :/) so I have heaters but they are set at 65 just for such an emergency.

I understand the point of the heater (and all such environmental control things) to be about maintaining the environmental parameters to be stable as possible specifically to have as little variability as possible...for the sake of making it easier for the "systems of life" to do their things....from a "caretakers" perspective. Being "chemical concoctions", i imagine something like a temp change of a material amount messing with those chemical processes. I imagine the genetics of the fish have long been best suited to things like day/night cycles and the things that come along with it.

Or he could be lieing so your fish will die and get sales in his fish

@@DillonWoods-lz4eu quit the negativity fam

Agreed. I respect his honesty!

Which is why I curse my stars that I wasn't born with access to his business... XD I've literally had pet store owners sell me fish they knew wouldn't thrive in what I offered, just so I'd come back and buy new fish. Most pet stores want to sell sell sell. This extends to all living animals in the stores, not just fish. But with fish they're extra lax (huheue) because somehow, fish "don't count". Many don't see fish as individual animals. That predatory mentality from the stores is 100% surely the reason why so many end up abandoning the hobby. If we had even 1 guy like Cory running a Aquarium fish store in my entire COUNTRY, I'd be such a happy guppy! But alas...

@@SensationalBanana Do research before buying something and this wont happen, its as much your responsability to make shore its the correct conditions as it is the shops

Thiiis

Comprehension isn't your strong point huh!

Gold barbs

There’s not a video to make. Just go to google.

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@Transitive Wisdom its cold now in los angeles i know because i live here, how are the fish doing with no heater?

I am new. Like you, I got talked into preset heaters. My plants don't like like the heat. I've been reading that warmer temperatures lessen the oxygen levels. I just got a 55G to give my Community Tank Dwellers more room and allow me to add a few fish that I have been looking forward to getting. Where this is going is this... I bought an adjustable heater... one that I can adjust. I will re-review my fish species and come up with a common setting, but it appears that I can reduce the heat, kill less plants, and retain more oxygen in the tank will using a lesser tank temp. I bought an adjustable heater to warm up the tank water used for water-changes. I will use that adjustable heater now in my new 20G Long that I am also setting up at the same time to move into his current 6.6G Betta Starter Kit Tank. I decided that I'll make 1 mess creating 2 new tanks, instead of dragging this process of setting up one, then the next one... kinda like an assembly line approach. This is exciting for me because I am recovering from very serious spinal injuries and post-concussion traumatic brain injury and I am seeing that I am starting to be able to multi-task again and that I am finally connecting to my old process management ability, again. Great Review Cory and thanks for helping us tap into our Critical Thinking capabilites and look outside of the box. After doing a lot of research, I am considering that plants on the side of the tank where the heater is are not doing as well as the other side. The only difference is that they are on the side with the heater. I decided to build a rock mound on both sides of heater and place the plants on the other side of it. I was using some of the plants to hid the heater. I still can, but just not that close

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Im sure they can adapt to a 10 degree difference but Im wondering how much solar plays a role in perhaps higher temps in the wild, where doing air temp comparison might not be giving us the full story. Also, back then people (like my father) were using hot incandescent bulbs in a reflector right on the water or even just a sun facing window to heat or grow plants. Plenty of kids, and parents, have cooked their first goldfish by leaving it in a window in the summer.

Agreed. Most habitats these fish live in are fairly constant. Large lakes or constantly moving streams. The water is constant and roughly the same temp throughout the year. Also, water holds onto hot and cold temps better than air and land, so the throughout the day the temperature of the water doesnt change much except at the very surface. Why just the very surface? Because Water is stratified. The first layer fluctuates a bit, not a lot. The other layers dont. Those layers are where the fish tend to live. Or in the shaded areas for cover and food. This stratification is pronounced and defined. So one layer will be right on top of a cooler later with no buffer between the two.

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Where do you live? The town where I live is on the coast next to the beach and I probably don’t need one either because of that. I also don’t live too far way from the equator where the climate is warmer.

I keep most of my fish at around 72 degrees.

gregg horner me too

As long as the room they are in is actually that temp.

I don't use one either and my betta is 🙂too I do something a little different to keep his tank warm all year long 🌱🌺🐿⛄️ Did this w/my past bettas and they survived just fine too

I’ve done similar. Also in the UK so when heating isn’t on for example at night, house can drop to 15/16 so I’ve bought a 50w heater to keep the tank at 20 during winter.

@@rsg1699 Yeah mine are temperate fish, so can live in 16 Deg temps I think. But you don't want to keep them at that temp for a prolonged period of time (over winter) Them temps would just emulate cold spells in their natural environment. Heaters just keep them in the average temp a few degrees apart. They'd be better if they made them on a timer where the drop was greater during night time I reckon. They'd probably last longer too, as they're up and down like a brides nighty at present.

what part?

@@bige3290 Rotterdam/ Schenectady area

@@bige3290 cool, i agree

I’m from central New York syracuse area . I only turn my heaters on in the winter time because the room my reef is in gets a little drafted when the wind is blowing hard but all summer no heater on any of the tanks unless the ac is on

Bro we live that close that's crazy

Yup

Tell that to Marijuana growers. They have that "has to be" mentality. I prove many growers wrong..

I never used heaters either and all of my fish both past/recent have survived the cold season 🐿⛄️ I do water changes w/warm tap conditioned water to keep my tank that I have now cosy and my betta is doing just fine 🐟🙂

Thank you for sharing your story.

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Yeah and material the tank is made of plastic tanks hold heat better

Yeah I’m 7 minutes in and he’s failed to mention that lmao

Thermal mass... pays a part of water changes... depending on where people live, I just fill from the cold tap and pour in the tank, yet others are all de-this and pro- that...

@@wobblysauce yea ive noticed this too. Ive kept fish since i was a kid and since we had fresh spring water coming from our tap i never had to worry about dechlorinators etc because our water was perfect 👌 As a matter of fact for the longest time i had no idea what all the fuss was about with tap/city water vs well vs spring- all i knew is that i never had to do anything special but throw my huge buckets in the bath and fill then carry to my tanks. Never acclimated them either even with 100% water changes, except when adding a new purchase to quarantine. I never used heaters either as i live in western NC and even at our coldest my pet room always stayed toasty and was positioned easternly towards the rising sun. So pretty much after buying my tanks and fish i wasnt having to pay but to feed them or treat new fish as precaution which came out pretty cheap. Only recently since becoming an adult and acquiring tanks at my new home have i discovered the joys of city water and the terrible ranging tank parameters plus adding declorinators etc

Yeah small bodies of water will fluctuate alot.

Divide by 1.8 will get you really close

Perhaps Cory could also translate into Flemmish, because Really I didn't want to learn English to hear him.

@@Max-hq2jm Don't be a dick. It's in English but the majority of the world, including people who speak English either as a first or second language, USE CELSIUS.

@@mastermarkus5307 I use Celsius, and I do dislike that Americans don't adapt on the internet (them being the minority of people who use Fahrenheit), but it's actually really easy. 32 °F is 0°C, so if you subtract 32 from any temperature on Fahrenheit, you'll get its Celsius equivalent.

Sorry we Americans don't care

It is far more efficient to heat just the rest than trying to get the water warm by heating the room :)

Awww sorry to hear :(. When we are new to keeping fish, we all have our tragedies until we get it right.

Agree

Do you keep angelfish?

@@LarryWater yes in a 55 gallon community tank with long fin tetra and a rope fish.

@Jennifer Millsaps I've had up to sixteen tanks and they never go below 70 degrees, my house is set at 80 degrees.

@CHEFF pool double wide with six inches of insulation in the walls

For sure, until you experience it yourself, it’s too hard to comprehend all of it. Myself included until I tested it over many years

@@AquariumCoop I am forcing myself to try it with my tanks. It is difficult to comprehend but makes so much sense and heaters are so unreliable. What is finally making me understand is I just bought a 75 gallon with african cichlids used. It didn't have a working heater when I got it and I haven't bought a new one. However I've noticed the fish are thriving even without it and my central heat/air is set to 72 all the time.

I have never experienced having problems in 20 gallon tanks any more than my larger tanks that don’t run heaters. That being said literally every tank and house surrounding it will be different. Find what works best for you.

I think keeping an aquarium in a house is going to insulate the aquarium from major temperature fluctuations providing you have a/c and heat.

​@@AquariumCoop Thanks for the quick reply. Interesting. I keep nano tanks only these days and while I've considered the fact that fish are typically exposed to larger temperature differentials in nature than species care guides suggest, I was worried about the rate that the temp may change in an unheated 3-8 gallon tank. Your vid definitely gives us something to consider...

@@benblassingourami984 ​ you are probably right... although the first time a fish is lost or there is a problem, it would be hard not to blame the lack of a heater first.

terrywho22 I have been comparing my losses/breeding across multiple tanks both unheated and heated, so although certainly not a scientific experiment, I feel it has given me the general impression that there is very little difference.

Aw, man, I'm jealous. I've seen prices for panda garra and they're more than I'm willing to pay.

@@MadCheshireHat Yea, I even let the boss know, he just kinda shrugged and said "it's their loss we only payed x for it, take it home if you want it", my coworker also a few weeks back got three adult royal panaques for the cost of baby royal farlowellas, our distributor recently hired a bunch of new pickers that don't know their stuff it seems

@@colinwinkelmann299 Nice score. 😊

Hi Glenn what types of fish do you keep please as I also live in the Uk and trying to do the same

What is your room temp? I have my home at 68 during the heating months 24/7. Summer is at 78.

65 at the warmest? Geez! Where do you live, your summer electricity bill most be nuts.

@@huntingwolf20 We live on the foothills of the Wasach mountains in Utah. The summer electricity bill is definitely worse, but it's not too bad.

Oh no how terrible! 🙁 I never used a heater not since I had my first betta in a vase and he lived almost 3 yrs or in a tank where my fantail goldfish grew up (My other bettas all lived in a medium size fish bowl and they did just fine w/out a heater too) My current betta is in a 3.5 gallon tank w/no heater cause I keep his water at 75-85*F 🙂🐟

Thats perfect for the most part. Your tank will be the temperature of your house and that is basically the optimum range

Lol just have it next to your tank with the cooling fan blowing on it

Bailey Mcdonald thats how I have it set up

BRAIN BLAST

I hooked up pipes to share the heat from my playstation to heat every tank in my home

I use my original Xbox to heat my whole apt 😉