Afrikan Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 We are now looking at heating our fish shed and getting rid of heaters... had a incident last week.. of which really took the cake... ended up with some over cooked fish... :evil: We have been looking at wanting to heat our fish shed for a while now... and getting rid of tank heaters.... and I thought I would ask around on the forums at peoples ideas on what heaters are the best to use... I have heard of people using oil heaters, fan heaters, heat pumps... Would love peoples thoughts and feedback on what they think or what they have found works best.... Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted June 8, 2008 Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 I have seen oil heaters in use with good effect, and also fan heaters. I think that heat pumps would be the most efficient but would be a highly expensive outlay for a fish room - depending on the size. What size is your room? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted June 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2008 It is 4 metres long (maybe more) by 3 metres wide... approx and 2 metres to highest point. Domesticated female here so not so great with exact measurements :lol: I am thinking fan heaters would throw and distribute the heat around the shed more wouldn't it? More so than oil heaters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Provided I entered the details correctly consumer recommends a heatpump of approx 1kw output - I am not sure that they produce them at such a low rate. (I have assumed insulated room) Uninsulated they recommend 2.2 kw Yes a fan heater would circulate the heat more freely - although you can buy oil heaters with fans, also I would imagine that once the room is heated there would be minimal need to distribute the heat. I am interested in what you decide. My garage is currently being built, and one of the first things I will do is build a fish room and plan to heat this. I am not sure which way I will go with heating, I was thinking that I would heat two large tanks with aquarium heaters and hoped that the room would be insulated enough to maintain heat around 2 degrees lower than the tank heating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 I had a purpose built fish house in a previous life. The most imprtant thing is to insulate the hell out of it. I then got a 2bar fan heater and wired it up so the fan went all the time and 1 bar (1kW) heater was wired through the thermostat. The heater hardly ever came on. The next thing is to get heaps of tanks and the water acts as a heat sink. When you open the door the hot air escapes but is easy to re heat. The heat is maintained in the water, so the more you have the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted June 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Thanks so much Matthew and alanmin for your feedback.... much appreciated. Will definately work out what we are going to do... I would rather avoid tank heaters, if I can so heating is the way to go... 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 If you don't use a fan you get temperature layering, which can be an advantage or disadvantage depending on what you want to achieve. It is more uncomfortable because it gets hot around your head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suphew Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 You could just use a desk fan to keep the air moving. I don't think a heat pump wouldn't be such a good idea, besides the huge expense of installing I think they also dehumidify, in a fish room it would suck the water right out of your tanks. Which raises another good point, don't forget to take the damp air into account when you build, paint, etc the room Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Heat pumps do dehumidfy if they are set to do this. I have a Fujitsu at home (so am basing my answer on this) - you can select for it to heat only so it won't dehumidfy. However the dehumidifier function might be an advantage if you had an automatic water top up system :lol: plus you wouldn't need to be too concerned with damage to the room from humidity. Hmmm - maybe a heatpump with auto top up is a good option Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navarre Posted June 9, 2008 Report Share Posted June 9, 2008 Hi there, I havent much experience with this but another option is undertank heater wire. You can hook this up to a digital switchey thing with temp control. Run it under heaps of tanks. It is realitively cheep to install and run (apparently) and reasonable safe. You can have have banks of tanks at different temps so then it still gives indivduality. Other options I have seen are oil heaters. HTH Navarre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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