Too Hot

It's no secret that Daddoo has always had a love for warmer weather. 

He's always talked about moving further south where it stays warmer longer and seems to thrive when the temperatures increase.

And usually he likes to keep the house a bit warmer than I prefer.
Like let the house get up to 80 degrees and be fine with it.

When I usually like being in places slightly cooler.

This year....he's apparently been letting the house get much warmer than usual.

As he now has a finished basement, and in an effort to save on utilities, he's decided to switch between living upstairs and downstairs during the year.
Downstairs where it stays cooler in warmer weather so he can save on the AC.
Upstairs where it stays warmer when it's cooler weather so he can save on Heat. 

And like.
It's a cool concept.
As a concept.

But apparently Daddoo has let the AC stay off and let the house get much much warmer than usual.
Like 85 degrees in the house warmer.

Which is waaaaay too hot for me.
When I was visiting last night, I found it difficult to remain comfortable sitting upstairs --and had to go turn on the AC to cool it down a bit because it was too hot for me to be able to focus.

Which Daddoo being the heat lover he is, didn't seem to mind that the upstairs was 85 degrees at midnight.
I mean, he'd be sleeping in the basement where it's cooler so it wouldn't really affect him.

However.
There has been something that's been affected by this sudden dramatic increase in temperature.

You see.
Daddoo has this nice 46 gallon fish tank.
Upstairs.

Upstairs where the temperatures have been getting in the high 80s and wouldn't surprise me if they reached 90s at some point.

And Daddoo was like "Yah, it's weird like I lost half my fish this past week and I don't know why."

A few questions on how warm he was keeping the house quickly showed the issue.

As the fish Daddoo kept in his tank are tropical fish.
And while they love warm water.
They don't like hot water.

Their preferred temperature range is to be between 72 and 82 degrees. With the best zone being between 76-78 degrees.

And while water can stay a bit cooler than the temperature in the house.
If the temperature in the house gets too high.
The water heats up as well.

And if it gets too hot.
The fish die.

*exhales*
So that was kinda frustrating. That Daddoo hadn't realized in his quest to keep the AC bill down that he was neglecting his fish.
After all, it's quite easy to get fish warmer.
It's not so easy to cool them down. They only sell heaters after all, they don't sell coolers. 
(I mean I know they probably do for fish tanks but still) 

Hopefully he'll try and keep the house just a tad cooler now that I told him not to let the house get above 82.

But we'll see.

Probably won't actively look to get him more fish until it starts cooling down again in any case. 

Until you next see these words;
I'll be watching the leaves.
Enjoy the day!

-Sarnic Dirchi