Heat Wave

[bettercallsaul]

(06-22-2012 01:45 AM)MichaelAngelo Wrote:  

(06-21-2012 06:12 PM)bettercallsaul Wrote:  Honestly though, if fish are cold blooded then there is no reason for them to eat in this kind of weather (pure speculation on my part).

Well, I would see this as a reason for their metabolism to be more active. In the winter, I'd expect their metabolisms to be slowed by the cold.

Again, more speculation, but there's probably an ideal range of temperatures where they best carry out growth and repair.

I did some searches about it... this was the closest article I could find to answering my question:

http://www.aqua.stir.ac.uk/public/GISAP/...p_food.pdf

So if we throw a fish into boiling water, would it die from exhaustion?

Lol just kidding, but like you said there is an optimum temperature, too high would result in lower enzyme activity, blood pH change, etc. I'm guessing that more food + more movement in search of food would increase the fishies body temperature even more, which is bad.