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36º water cooked my fish

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I came home to the news tonight that my beloved zebra loach had died. Mari theorized that the water had gotten warmer with the heat (our air conditioner never seems to work when we need it), and I touched the aquarium to find that it was radiating heat. I moved a small thermometer from the other aquarium (where it already read an alarmingly high 30ºC, and was shocked to see that the small 15g tank was humming at 36ºC. How on Earth the angelfish was still alive I have no idea.

Three good things that happened today:

1. I met some people with a really interesting business plan, today.
2. It was insanely hot - Tokyo-grade 40ºC hot as I crossed a broad stretch of concrete at Queen and Spadina. But I had my bike and was soon through it.
3. Even though my delightful little zebra loach, who loved to hide in the mouth of the ceramic "T-Rex" in the aquarium perished, the rest of the fish seemed okay.