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Fish and temperature change
It's a commonly accepted rule that fish need to slowly adjust to
changes in water temperature and this is one of the reasons why bagged fish are supposed to float for a while before being introduced into a new body of water. I'm starting to think that this temperature adjustment rule is a whole lot of bunk. One of the things I've noticed about pondkeeping is that different areas of a pond can have radically different temperatures, and that goes double for ponds without any circulation. Shallow areas without much vegetation are significantly warmer than areas just 2' in depth, and this situation must be the norm since one of the tips to trigger faster growth of water lilies is to lift the pots near the surface because the water is warmer! Even with these big temperature differences in portions of a pond goldfish and koi will peacefully cruise from cool areas to warm areas without showing any concern at all. How can this be if fish are really as sensitive to temperature changes as we've been lead to believe? Does it have to do with the fact that a fish can return to water that it's adjusted to if it finds a new pocket of water that's too uncomfortable? If so, sometimes it takes a long, long time for them to become uncomfortable. Is it possible that this rule is mainly for aquarium fish where the entire body of water is likely to be the exact same temperature and a newly introduced fish wouldn't be able to find water of its body temperature? |
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