Sounds daft but....how do heat your MFT?

[waynes world]

Now i am getting into the nit and gritty bit of keeping a large tank, by large i mean realy above 800g say.

How do you heat yours and what cost of running, what method, old fashioned heaterstat, under tank heater etc.

This is mainly at the countrys of similar climate as the UK or colder.

I am buildign a fishroom for my 1200g UK tank and it will be fully insulated aswell as the tank with 2 inch insulation, also the top will be 3/4 insulated.

wayne

 

[Laticauda]

Coldwater fish FTW!

 

[waynes world]

Coldwater fish FTW!

Never realised you have to keep cold water fish warm...oh then we di in the UK for KOI, well some times.

I am taliking about fresh tropical fish at around 25 deg

wayne

 

[Laticauda]

I know, I was suggesting that you keep fish that can withstand the cold water temps instead of tropicals

 

[Mudslinger14]

BOO. Tropical fish ftw!

 

[Mudslinger14]

I would just say, get a bunch of heaters and pay like a million pounds for the cost of running them

 

[knifegill]

Some options are great in the long run but cost a lot to set up, like solar powered batteries that charge all day and run as long as they can until normal power has to take over. A lot of people save huge $ by using a gas water heater like a typical house would have and modifying it to heat their tank. But that's assuming you'd pay less for gas than electricity.

 

[dogofwar]

I heat my fishroom...and not the tanks (other than a couple).

Matt

 

[waynes world]

I also plan to heat the fish room aswell as the tank, the fish room will be fully insukated aswell as the tank.
I can get free butane/propane cylinders which is a bonus