Is the water too warm?

My two cents. Have you unpluged your heater. It's been eighty here since mid March pretty much. I unplug my heaters the first week of April. The tank cools off at night enough that they never get above 78 or eighty during the day.
Of course I have AC, don't you? I guess not if your tank is reaching that temp.
 
Scott - very, very few domestic properties in the UK have air conditioning. It's seldom needed given our maximum summer temperatures are below 100F, and most years don't exceed 90F.
 
Wow! I had to live one summer w/o AC and I hated every second of it. I guess it's nice that it's so cool there. I bet its nice on the power bills too.
 
The weather has cooled down a bit now, so much for our heatwave! The temp in the tank is now down to 29 degrees on average. None of the fish seem to be bothered, so perhaps I was worrying too much.
I did try to cool the water by putting a plastic bottle with the lid tight in the tank, filled with cold water that had been in the freezer for a while. The fish were very curious, but it didn't really make much difference to the overall tank temp.
Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll give some of them a try next time. :)
 
its the same way in Brasil and actually anywhere else in the world. The only air-conditioning company I know of overseas is LG and there products and AC's are a burning in the pocket. So its just America that we have gotten used to insulated houses and AC.
 
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