Hi
Looking to set up an indoor pond/pool. Looking at large circular aquaculture 'tanks' which are more or less above ground free standing circular plastic pools. This will be used to house my rays that are quickly outgrowing my 8x3x2.5.
The pond I am looking at is 2.7m (9') in diameter and holds 5,000 liters (~1,300 gallons). Filtration is no real issue as I have always made my own, my question is more around heating.
The pond will be in the garage on a concrete slab. I am also a reptile keeper and have made my own racks, part of this has been to route wood and place a head chord in the routing and cover with aluminium tape and attach to a thermostat. I was thinking this may be a viable option with helping to heat the pond. Create a large wooden slab for the pond to sit on and route grooves in the wood, and run some heat chord through the grooves and cover with aluminium tape to create a heat sink. Could pretty much do the entire floor with about 300watts of heat cabling. My main issue would be sealing the wood sufficiently and protecting the heat chord as it is not made for getting wet with any spills.
Like I said this would not be the main source of heating and would rather be negating any loss through the concrete floor and instead add some heat to an area that would other wise be sucking heat from the system?
Anyone tried anything similar?
Looking to set up an indoor pond/pool. Looking at large circular aquaculture 'tanks' which are more or less above ground free standing circular plastic pools. This will be used to house my rays that are quickly outgrowing my 8x3x2.5.
The pond I am looking at is 2.7m (9') in diameter and holds 5,000 liters (~1,300 gallons). Filtration is no real issue as I have always made my own, my question is more around heating.
The pond will be in the garage on a concrete slab. I am also a reptile keeper and have made my own racks, part of this has been to route wood and place a head chord in the routing and cover with aluminium tape and attach to a thermostat. I was thinking this may be a viable option with helping to heat the pond. Create a large wooden slab for the pond to sit on and route grooves in the wood, and run some heat chord through the grooves and cover with aluminium tape to create a heat sink. Could pretty much do the entire floor with about 300watts of heat cabling. My main issue would be sealing the wood sufficiently and protecting the heat chord as it is not made for getting wet with any spills.
Like I said this would not be the main source of heating and would rather be negating any loss through the concrete floor and instead add some heat to an area that would other wise be sucking heat from the system?
Anyone tried anything similar?
