Warning for Indoor
and Outdoor Aquarium Owners
I rescued few fish
selling on the pavement (I haven't got enough space for all) with
temperatures hovering around 32 degrees in Kandy city.
It must be worst in
other districts.
Diurnal (in fact
within 12 hours) variation of January temperatures are more than 15
degrees Centigrade.
Early Morning 20 degrees
and at 1 pm 35 degrees.
Fish can tolerate up
to 30 degrees indoors may be less outdoors.
If your fish are
dying, it is not due to algal bloom.
Just keep an aquarium
thermometer (very cheap) and test the temperature or cover the pond
with (thatched ) coconut leaf or better light inhibitor polythene
wrappings.
What I use is a
polythene roofing cut into shape and paste the polythene wrapping
with fish friendly silicone glue (used to paste glass tanks).
Industrial glue
kills the fish.
