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Heating small outdoor pond?
Posted on 11/6/19 at 10:19 am
Posted on 11/6/19 at 10:19 am
New house has a small pond with a pump. Water feature I guess. Pretty small. Anyway, I lost some cold intolerant fish after this last cold spell. Is heating one of these even a thing? If so, what product?
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Posted on 11/6/19 at 11:14 am to AlxTgr
Know any water well drillers? Or have access to an excavator?
You could do some type of poor mans heat pump. Just bury a few hundred feet of plastic lines and the water will come out near 60 degrees.
If you want to get fancy you can run some calculations to sort out exactly how many linear feet you need to properly warm the water.
You could do some type of poor mans heat pump. Just bury a few hundred feet of plastic lines and the water will come out near 60 degrees.
If you want to get fancy you can run some calculations to sort out exactly how many linear feet you need to properly warm the water.
This post was edited on 11/6/19 at 11:54 am
Posted on 11/6/19 at 11:20 am to AlxTgr
does the pond have a fountain? If it does it's chilling the water . Otherwise, water purity may be what killed the fish and not the cold. What kind of fish died? Do you have a kit to test for ammonia and Nitrates?
Posted on 11/6/19 at 11:36 am to Bedhog
quote:Not really a fountain. Slow water fall.
does the pond have a fountain?
quote:No, it was the cold. Only one species died, and it's well known they can't take it.
Otherwise, water purity may be what killed the fish and not the cold.
This post was edited on 11/6/19 at 11:37 am
Posted on 11/6/19 at 12:50 pm to AlxTgr
If they can't take the temps now, they really won't like winter
Posted on 11/6/19 at 1:35 pm to Bedhog
Will one of those keep it above 50 all winter?
Posted on 11/6/19 at 1:40 pm to AlxTgr
depends on how big the pond is
Posted on 11/6/19 at 4:45 pm to AlxTgr
Seen this done with a home-made solar panel before. Probably way less convenient than buying a heater for it but if you’re like me you’d get a kick out of making one yourself. let me do the best recollection I can here:
Build yourself some wooden frames and a center panel of wood that pivots like a solar panel. Make the panel like 6 feet wide 3-4 feet high. Box in the panel so it’s about a foot deep, leave one side open. Drill an inlet and outlet hole on your box and put in rubber hosing, nylon hosing or cpvc/pvc, your call but i would go with nylon since it’s so malleable and easy to work with. Anyways arrange the tubes so it’s like a radiator, soaking in all the heat it can. Apply a pane of glass to the open side of the box. Put on a water pump of your choosing, run the water pump inlet to the bottom of the pond and the outlet into the panel inlet, panel outlet to waterfall reservoir. A remote thermostatic control should do for controlling the pump and regulating temperatures
Build yourself some wooden frames and a center panel of wood that pivots like a solar panel. Make the panel like 6 feet wide 3-4 feet high. Box in the panel so it’s about a foot deep, leave one side open. Drill an inlet and outlet hole on your box and put in rubber hosing, nylon hosing or cpvc/pvc, your call but i would go with nylon since it’s so malleable and easy to work with. Anyways arrange the tubes so it’s like a radiator, soaking in all the heat it can. Apply a pane of glass to the open side of the box. Put on a water pump of your choosing, run the water pump inlet to the bottom of the pond and the outlet into the panel inlet, panel outlet to waterfall reservoir. A remote thermostatic control should do for controlling the pump and regulating temperatures
Posted on 1/2/20 at 10:03 am to AlxTgr
It’s almost invariably best just to have cold tolerant species of fishes like koi, goldfish, in outdoor ponds. Expensive to heat water depending on volume.
There are some relatively inexpensive submersible heaters such as this that can be used to heat small volumes of water, as an example LINK, but you need to determine the volume of water, temperature threshold of the tropical species, max cold temp of the water to determine what size heater and how many heaters are required.
Seriously, it’s best to avoid cold intolerant species in outdoor ponds in sub-tropical/temperate climates.
There are some relatively inexpensive submersible heaters such as this that can be used to heat small volumes of water, as an example LINK, but you need to determine the volume of water, temperature threshold of the tropical species, max cold temp of the water to determine what size heater and how many heaters are required.
Seriously, it’s best to avoid cold intolerant species in outdoor ponds in sub-tropical/temperate climates.
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