[AquaticLife] Re:Tetra’s Monthly Aquarium Maintenance advice???
Lenny,
I think that the role temperature plays is in the saturation level for oxygen. The higher the temperature of the water, the less oxygen it takes to reach the saturation level. A lower oxygen concentration is known to affect the toxicity of ammonia to fish. The reason for this is that the ammonia affects the capacity of the hemoglobin for oxygen. So, if there is ammonia present, and continuing to be present in the water column, the higher temperature, the less oxygen is present and with the impairment of the hemoglobin, the fish slowly suffocates to death. Given the amount of ammonia present, this can happen slowly or quickly.
\Steve//
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