Green house effect. Insulation will help and you could do some geothermal cooling (cheaper than A/C). Top & bottom vents for convection cooling too.
looking for pond prowling tropical fish
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ok. so even if it gets really cold, shouldnt worry about heating a metal shed with no windows? the tropical pond will be just fine? ill see if i can get some ventilation going, if not, ill try out the geothermal or something. thanks
This is on the road to failure I fear (at least something you will not be happy with).
Why no insulation?
If you can't exist outside overnight without a coat the fish aren't either (easiest way to think of it).
This can be don't but alot of pre-planning needs to be done not added on later (more costly later and not as effective).
This shed is going to be 20'w x 40'l x 8'h ?
Manufactured or are you building it?
Is the pond going to be fully in the ground ?
Dr Joe
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Why no insulation?
If you can't exist outside overnight without a coat the fish aren't either (easiest way to think of it).
This can be don't but alot of pre-planning needs to be done not added on later (more costly later and not as effective).
This shed is going to be 20'w x 40'l x 8'h ?
Manufactured or are you building it?
Is the pond going to be fully in the ground ?
Dr Joe
.
i may be able to insulate it im not sure yet, dont know what type of shed it will be, but im thinking it would be a steel building. the shed will probably be some dimension like 40 feet wide, 50 feet long, and some height not sure. my idea was that when a concrete pad was poured for the shed, which i was going to build a pond out of, that why dont i just have one built while its being poured? my internal pond dimensions are only 42" high, but itd have to be something like 48" , bu tnot entirely full of water. so like theyd be part of the concrete pad that makes the shed floor, but they rise up above it 4 feet and go the length of 30 feet and etc. does that explain it?
if you think of like a preformed pond sitting on concrete, this is kinda like that but itd be built in.
my idea was to just build one out of concrete blocks once the shed was built, but then i thought that they could just make it while they pour it, save me alot of time.
my idea was to just build one out of concrete blocks once the shed was built, but then i thought that they could just make it while they pour it, save me alot of time.
talked to one of my friends whos into engineering, but i may have found an efficient way to keep the tropical pond heated. he said itd be pretty easy to insulate even a steel building, and that that would also prevent it from overheating during hot days, but to build them like 3 feet into the ground, so they are even further insulated, and to do water heating coils through the walls of the pond, and that can be set to a constant temperature for heating, dont know that if i put the two ponds adjacent to one another, if the residual heat would keep it warm enough for the koi pond to not freeze, but im not against a unit space heater in there either.
thing is, this is one of my best ideas and i really want to do it, and i know that it can be easy to obtain and do, i just really want to make it work.
one, its not as expensive as buying a smaller acrylic tank for a few fish.
two, i can keep lots of fish that i never thought id ever be able to because of their size, like the rtc and tsn
three, it is easily obtainable financially, all id have to do is get it built when they set it up, and just add the filter and cycle it well, get all the components going, and wahlah!
thing is, this is one of my best ideas and i really want to do it, and i know that it can be easy to obtain and do, i just really want to make it work.
one, its not as expensive as buying a smaller acrylic tank for a few fish.
two, i can keep lots of fish that i never thought id ever be able to because of their size, like the rtc and tsn
three, it is easily obtainable financially, all id have to do is get it built when they set it up, and just add the filter and cycle it well, get all the components going, and wahlah!
Sounds like your set to go! 
Get with a good masonry contractor and get this thing done.
Don't forget to take lots of pix and keep us posted!
Get with a good masonry contractor and get this thing done.
Don't forget to take lots of pix and keep us posted!
