henward Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 interesting, how you work that out? is this what you do for work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 YAY!!! :happy1: Just transferred my girlfriends baby black arowana and 4 plecos (Royal, 2xGN, L200). The black look happy! It was scary transferring him TBH. Such a powerful fish! :thup: Okay, So I would need to keep the garage shut at all times. Meaning when I enter the garage I would need to shut the garage down once entered? I think I can do that, and get some 25mm poly for the back and sides. I'll get on to that once everyone settles in the 1200L. There are still more fish to add. I might add my discus in tomorrow too!. Thanks hovmoller for the calculation. Oh, I forgot to add that I added another AquaOne 1200 filter today too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artem Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 If you are entering the garage via the main door it will help if you put in a smaller door somewhere so you're not letting out so much warm air when entering and leaving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Only problem is that the garages has only one door. Which is the main garage door. Oh and forgot to add, I've added some caves into the tank. I will upload some photos later. It isn't good photos though as a lot of glare..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 And it would be pretty hard to add a single door to the garage unless, I change the garage door to a room door if that makes any sense? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 How big is the black? You're going to try mixing it with the "secret fish"??? :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henward Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 basically,c lose the door when you get in. dont leaveit open minimise heat loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 My black is around 45cm and it will be a bit of a pain to enter the garage then closing it as it is one of those metal pull up gates and sometimes its so hard to lift from the inside ...wished it had the electric gate :sml2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David R Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Good luck.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcrudd Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 what about it you put in a little side entrance door, its not that difficult, Hubby put one in our garage for me, cause I was battling to open the door from the inside and once the wind shut it on me and I was stuck in there LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Still looking for quite a big amount of christmas and peacock moss....anyone know anyone that might have some to sell or giveaway?? :tears: well....the thing is...the gate of the garage is the width of the whole garage....and if i put side doors....well....it will go into the foundations of the house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GZ_Loach Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 If room is 17° and you want your water at 29° then you need at least 575 watt heating. This is assuming no insulation except 10mm on the bottom and on ply. This will cost you $105/month in power!! he has 900 watts heating the tank, i think 575 watts aint going to cut the mustard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 I have 1100w heating actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hovmoller Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 he has 900 watts heating the tank, i think 575 watts aint going to cut the mustard. Oh and if you leave the garage door open you can forget about these numbers.. it will be much higher then.. These calcs are based on a room with little air movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hovmoller Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 interesting, how you work that out? is this what you do for work? Yes something like that.. Instead of the whole door in the door business you could build an insulated wall across inside your garage and make it your fish room.. Like Josh did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Yes something like that.. Instead of the whole door in the door business you could build an insulated wall across inside your garage and make it your fish room.. Like Josh did! How much would it cost to get the garage insulated? As what henward said, it cost him $400 to get his place fully insulated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony law Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 yer next month im starting to look at insulated my garage as i got a 600 dollars power bill.. my fish room is 6 by 9 merte shed..... hewood whats size is your shed...so it will give me a idear on cost... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Instead of the whole door in the door business you could build an insulated wall across inside your garage and make it your fish room.. Like Josh did! haha il try but gona need to sell off some tanks first and rearrange the whole garage to my gf's mums liking :facepalm: and the garage is quite small... yer next month im starting to look at insulated my garage as i got a 600 dollars power bill.. gf's mum got a 300$+ and lets say...she was not one happy woman :nilly: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 my parents powerbill is 300, i have 17 tanks in my insulated fish shed, i used 25mm poly, but i think 50 mm would be better and fill all gaps with expanding foam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 then cover with 3mm ply, and paint , this keeps my fishroom temp at 30degrees, even when its cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfishybuisness Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 i got my poly form this place really cheap, in 2.4x 1.2 sheets, and cheap , pm me for details Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hovmoller Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 my parents powerbill is 300, i have 17 tanks in my insulated fish shed, i used 25mm poly, but i think 50 mm would be better and fill all gaps with expanding foam Of course 50mm is always better but not by very much.. E.g. Fishies 1200 tank that went from $105/month to $65/month by using 25mm poly. If he used 50mm instead the bill would still be $58/month. So unless you can get 50mm at around the same price as 25mm I wouldn't bother. What would be the really good way of doing it is 90mm pink batts everywhere. But of course you would need some framing and lining with that.. Which would be quite a bit more expensive than poly, but a good solution long term of course. With many/big tanks it would pay for itself in only a few years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the-obstacle Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Box frame the tank and fill frame with pink batts you reckon? That's quite a good idea and would be easy for an in wall style tank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Here is some "bad" photos of my tank, I can't take a decent photos as my tank has way to much glare......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishie123 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 Box frame the tank and fill frame with pink batts you reckon? Wouldn't pink batts a lot more expensive than poly? how does using thin layer of cotton stuffing between 2 layers of poly sound? would that be effective? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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