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January 23, 2005
Chilled fish
It's about -17 degrees outside and the radiators in my apartment don't work. With the infused heat from the neighboring apartments and my little heater I have it up to 20 degrees in here. This is reasonably comfortable with a sweatshirt. The only problem is that it is just barely above the lowest level of acceptable temperature in the fishtank and I have to turn off the heater so I can go to bed. I don't trust this old heater to run unattended. Plus, it's electric and bloody expensive to run. I expect the apartment will cool down considerably before I get up in the morning and restart the heater and I'm not sure what's going to happen to the fish.
When I got home this afternoon after my class it was down to 14 degrees in the apartment and slightly less than the safe area in the fish tank. It's very possible that there is enough redisidual heat in the room to keep the fishtank to at least that level for the next 8 hours.
Ah, the responsibility of having $3.88 two-for-one guppies...
Posted by John at January 23, 2005 12:17 AM