Was wondering what the specs would have to be to do a tropical pond in Fl. I had some oscars in my koi pond and they didn't make it throught the winter but it is only 3 ft deep. How deep would the pond have to be to keep tropicals? Also how much warmer will a pooler solar cover keep the water?
Thinking of building a tropical pond in FL
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I lost 2 Pacu's and a Oscar down here. I had a heater all through the winter when the tempature dropped out below 59 degrees at night and not getting back up into the 70's during the day. It worked great. It kepts a warm area of the pond. Only problem is the heater failed and lost both Pacu's and the Oscar when the temp dropped in the 30's and the day time temp was 58. That was only one or two days like that down here in Fort lauderdale area. You can do it just keep it heated.
Sounds like a perfect spot for a solar heater...
A roof top model on a shed that houses your plumbing.
A roof top model on a shed that houses your plumbing.
Muske;2918382; said:Sounds like a perfect spot for a solar heater...
A roof top model on a shed that houses your plumbing.
can you post info on this or PM me the specs, thanks
I was just looking into the same thing. I will most likely be moving into our home in St. Petersburg, FL within the year and just started researching solar pool heaters. I am starting to plan for down the road as my gf wants to build an addition onto the house and I want to engineer a "pocket" between the original structure and the new build. I figured it wouldn't cost too much more then to build a concrete tank with a viewing window or two and use skylighting "greenhouse-like" somehow as well as a solar pool heater of some sort to help cut heating costs.