greenhouse vs heater
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I would do a combination of both. Greenhouse would help take care of keeping the temperature up during the day and a heater would keep it from dropping at night. I imagine you have plenty of sunshine. You would lose heat at night, but you might even choose to heat the greenhouse enclosure at night instead of heating the pond directly. Let's see what others say about that option. I've found that with lots of tanks in one room, heating the area is easier than heating the tanks.
yeah i might do that however, here at ksa, there is PLENTY OF SUNLIGHT, so i would only go for the greenhouse and if that doesn't work i will heat the grennhouse.
But i am open to more suggestions
Like you’ve been told already, it’s gonna be very difficult to heat that pond and you’re better off getting fish suitable to your climate
Heater for the pond would still be the best option. Cold water fish would be suitable as well, what about the northern pike?
You've made things a little more difficult for us than it should be really. Your other thread, "fish for pond" partially addresses some of the issues which are also pertinent to this thread. It would have been better to keep it all under one thread!!
You stated one very important fact in that other thread, and it speaks volumes to me. You said that no one in Saudi has ponds, they're just not a done thing. There's a very very good reason for this...summer temperatures!
They are brutally hot in Saudi, having a pond is crazy when you think about it. You are currently trying to deal with problems that lots of other people have probably already tried and failed with, hence the lack of ponds over there!!
And then on the flip side, even though your winters are relatively mild, the night time temps are uncomfortably too low for most tropical fish. These are the problems you are faced with.
In summer I suspect your pond needs cooling, with lots of added water agitation too to compensate for lack of oxygen levels. And in winter it needs a heat source.
The ideal solution would be to have your pond in an enclosed room, and actually control the room temps. Air conditioning would probably be the best way to achieve this though what your energy costs are like over there I don't know. You'd have to have it on constant cool during the summer, and warmer during the winter.
Or maybe you need to give up on the pond and just go the aquarium route, which you already have to a degree.
You stated one very important fact in that other thread, and it speaks volumes to me. You said that no one in Saudi has ponds, they're just not a done thing. There's a very very good reason for this...summer temperatures!
They are brutally hot in Saudi, having a pond is crazy when you think about it. You are currently trying to deal with problems that lots of other people have probably already tried and failed with, hence the lack of ponds over there!!
And then on the flip side, even though your winters are relatively mild, the night time temps are uncomfortably too low for most tropical fish. These are the problems you are faced with.
In summer I suspect your pond needs cooling, with lots of added water agitation too to compensate for lack of oxygen levels. And in winter it needs a heat source.
The ideal solution would be to have your pond in an enclosed room, and actually control the room temps. Air conditioning would probably be the best way to achieve this though what your energy costs are like over there I don't know. You'd have to have it on constant cool during the summer, and warmer during the winter.
Or maybe you need to give up on the pond and just go the aquarium route, which you already have to a degree.
thanks for your help. Actually i have already started building a room over my pond. That will solve the problem. Thanks for all of your help guys, i really really appreciate it