2006-08-11 09:05:36 · 8 answers · asked by high4life4654 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
fish are cold blooded and cichlids/native fish adapt to almost any water condition. My native fish live in 80 deg. water. I know what tropical means but I thought there would be a scientific explanation why they couldn't adapt other then their classified as tropical.
2006-08-11 09:23:17 · update #1
I wouldn't harm my cichlids. I didn't mean throw my tropical fish in cold water and hope for the best, I ment if they could adapt - say each generation of fry lived in water 5 deg. cooler then the previous generation down to winter temps in my state (water here is around 40 in winter, not the actually air temp) not trying to be a p.i.t.a it would just be cool to keep them in my pond
2006-08-11 09:32:37 · update #2
yes ray ks, I assumed they would be able to adapt, 9 out of 3 months here are warm/hot/warm. Winter is 3 months and I fugred if i inroduced it slowly, generation after generation they would be able to handle the 40 deg. winter water, and be like the bass around here that like 70 deg. water and go in a hobernation mode in winter and only eat an easy catch.
2006-08-14 07:42:09 · update #3
Fish are cold blooded, unlike yourself. To digest food and for their muscles to work properly they must be between certain temperatues.
Basically too cold a fish will starve its self to death from the inside out.
Please be kind to the swimmy friends :)
Tank heater's aren't that much,
www.thatpetplace.com has super cheap pet stuff
even with shipping its 1/2 the price of local place...
I run 2 heaters in my 55 gallon. One is set 3 degrees lower than the other, in case the first fails.
I also run 2 Penguin 330s incase one fails.
AND one DID fail when my rabbit ate the power wire!!!
I have an Oscar the size of a small dog... "Beef Cake"
and used to have 4 6" Red Belly Piranha until an ex room mate poisoned the tank (he got what he deserved)...
2006-08-11 09:24:03 · answer #1 · answered by mp3tocd_man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tropical fish are fish that can only adapt to tropical waters so they can't stay in coldwater tanks and if you do, they will die easily, probably one or two days. Some coldwater fish can live in tropical waters but not goldfish, also, if you put a tropical fish in coldwater or a different type of species tank, the tropical fish will most times die from the shock from the change of temperature.All fish are cold-blooded, so that means if a tropical fish is put into a coldwater tank, it's body temperature will lower and eventually die because cold-blooded animals can't control their body temperature so it's body temperature will match in with the habitat they're in.
2006-08-11 17:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They probably can. My oscar's tank keeps @ about 72-78 degrees and they've lived happily for the last 2 yrs. Just make sure it doesn't get extremely cold for them like under an ac vent (for example, my tank gets indirect sunlight from a skylight so I don't use a heater)
2006-08-12 00:07:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they can, but their body metabolism is optimised for tropical conditions. A tropical fish in cold water would be somewhat lethargic
2006-08-13 04:02:10 · answer #4 · answered by Ray KS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, the cold water will kill them remember the word tropical means warm.
2006-08-11 16:10:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, its just the way it is.
However goldfish are coldwater tropical fish.
2006-08-11 16:20:03 · answer #6 · answered by Special Ed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't want to be frozen!
2006-08-11 16:18:57 · answer #7 · answered by ASKHOLE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think so....... maybe..........probably.
2006-08-11 16:08:49 · answer #8 · answered by Meggy. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋