Shark pond cold weather

[dangerhack]

Anyone have a shark pond that has cold winters? What do you do for heat? Looking for ideas that are cost effective.... Don't feel like running a pool heater all winter 24-7 because I plan on building a large pond an it will cost big $$$. I live in central jersey, was thinking maybe solar heaters but don't know much about them have to look into it or maybe even building a huge greenhouse for the winter ? Any comments appreciated


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[stopsharkfinning]

I was using 4, 300 watt heaters for a 4000 lt pond but it gets expensive on the electricity bill, gas pool heaters from I have found seem to be the most economical depending on water temp and amount of water

 

[dangerhack]

I was using 4, 300 watt heaters for a 4000 lt pond but it gets expensive on the electricity bill, gas pool heaters from I have found seem to be the most economical depending on water temp and amount of water

I would like to build a 15' x 35' x 5' pond


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[dangerhack]

So that wouldnt be cheap to heat!


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[Zoodiver]

I would like to build a 15' x 35' x 5' pond


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Just to give you an idea... in Miami I ran THREE 5 hp chiller/heater units from Aqua-Logic to heat a pool about half of that volume outdoors in the winter.

http://www.aquaticeco.com/subcategories/3138/Aqua-Logic-Multi-Temp-Chillers

With that much volume, it would be cheaper to enclose the pool to keep your temp up rather than try to heat it outside for a single Winter.

 

[dangerhack]

Yea I wanted to look into solar covers or heaters or something of that nature


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