Diskboy12's heated pond begins

[Richies^Ghost]

I just want to prove the nay-sayers wrong o it being done with an outragious price. It can be done, and somewhat affodably. Any more suggestions on the new idea?

And provide the best environment for your pet, whilst keeping your long term motivation high so that it doesn't suffer from neglect due to your inability to care for it or afford it - though that goes without saying.

Affordable is a relative term though - to me, running four 800 watt heaters wouldnt be affordable. At a duty cycle of 50%, thats about 1150 kilowatt hours a month - at 10c a kWh, that's $115 a month. Then there's the cost of the pumps, food, god knows what else, and it's getting pretty pricey.

My suggestion is to work out just how much power you'll be consuming, and how much that will cost. It might be a whole lot cheaper to set up a winter tank indoors, than to run one outdoors - unless of course bragging rights on this are priceless for you.

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[kallmond]

You could also line the hole with styrofoam. Much easier than building outer and inner frames.

keep a lid on it at all times.

If your lid was black, you could run some pex tubing through it and slowly circulate water through the pex tube. It would heat up when it was in the lid, and transfer some of that heat to the water. I think you could use convection currents to circulate the water.

 

[Diskboy12]

I am not trying to sound smug about his, I just get so man y flames towards me that things can't be done, I don't know about you but I was told that anything is possible. As for the winter indoorpond that has come in my mind and I have been doing measurements in my room to see how large I can reasonably go. So before your quick to think I am just another *** try to see where I am coming from. I got this fish with the knowledge of how large he was going to get and I want to give him the best environment to reach his full potential no matter what that means.

 

[badisbadis101]

If you're going to heat it, don't heat to 78. The fish don't need it and its a waste of electricity. I would imagine 70 would be more than adequate.

Secondly, Thats not really a big pond, and if anything goes wrong in the winter, there would be very little time to catch the problem before you have a dead fish. Larger volume means more stability and slower catastrophes. I would dig a bigger hole, invest in a bigger liner, and look at building a something measured in thousands of gallons, not hundreds.

 

[Diskboy12]

Thanks Badis, good information.