600Ltre Heated Tropical Fish Pond In England

[lloyd]

im just about toi buy my own house and unfortunatly the garden isnt as big as i woulod like to be able to afford so it looks like i wont be having my dream monster pond, so im going to settle on a smaller more managable sized pond ideally with a glass side. i have done alot of research into the glass side and i am confident i can achieve that free of leaks, but im not to sure if i can keep it warm enough to keep subtropical species like certain snakeheads. has anybody got a heated pond or no how to keep a pond heated. all i can find are big koi heaters but i would like to keep mine warmer and ideally to be entirelly electrical.

any advice would be appreciated

 

[waggy1]

i carnt help you sorry but would just like to say love the idea if it possible i have never heard of anything like that might try convince the wife to let me have 1 lol . hope someone is more help than me

 

[fishprotector]

Why not try building a brick structure around it, like a garage. That way you can insulate the walls and cut down on the electric bills.

 

[smokeyjo]

Would it be possible to put some kind of heater underneath it? Similar to what underfloor heating we have in houses. The only thing is with the winter we had last year I don't know if it would be possible to keep it warm enough.

 

[mattlee]

a tropical pond in the UK would cost an absolute fortune to run unless it was indoors.

as said above an insulated garage or shed would be a good start and build the pond inside it. maybe a conservatory but this may cost too much as they are freezing in winter.....

i guess a pond in a garage/shed doesnt really have the wow factor one outside would have either. i would just stick with a tank

 

[juggernuts]

ditto to Matt really. I am in a similar position and the price it would cost yearly you might aswell get a 10ft tank if you can because in the long run it Will work out cheaper and much more enjoyable

 

[lloyd]

Im starting to agree. i do like the idea of an english native pond any way however in a pfk issue last year a man had a 8ft heated pond just looking like any other with a window but it was insulated so well that when he turned the heater off over night on an average day the temp only dropped 2 degrees through the morning. . . . i just cans see how that can be

 

[Mowbz]

Its a cool idea, saw one in PFK a few months back, but would cost a fortune to heat as already said. Invest the money in a nice indoor tank

 

[lloyd]

no i think i will go for a native tank. Perch golden rudd and crucian carp is what im thinking

 

[adzilla88]

Would you even need to heat it if their the species your keeping. All these survive in the wild without heating so it seems a bit of a waste of money in my opinion. It's not really a tropical fish pond if your keeping rudd, perch and crucians etc.

 

[Cazgar]

It's a lovely idea, but with our winters as others have said, keeping it heated would be so expensive.
Last winter here it was -15 for a number of nights, not to mention the foot of snow on the ground, any heater would be hard pushed to cope

 

[lloyd]

Would you even need to heat it if their the species your keeping. All these survive in the wild without heating so it seems a bit of a waste of money in my opinion. It's not really a tropical fish pond if your keeping rudd, perch and crucians etc.

the native pond is plan b after the tropical pond doesnt work out

koi breeders heat there massive ponds all year round. maybe it would cost so much to rig one of those heaters to a much smaller well insulated pond. i think i will go for the native pond though

 

[Mowbz]

As above, do the species you are planing to keep in the tank need much heating outside? (I have no idea, never kept them.) You might get away with it at minimum cost if is temperate rather than full tropical as water movement is all thats needed to keep it from freezing, heating to keep it warm.

If you were to insulate the pond from the earth around it, you might get away with it?

 

[lloyd]

thats what i was thinking. and in the winter i would put a lid on it as it would still be lit up using strip bulbs.
all those fish i have listed live in england and can easily cope with freezing temps and are in my opinion very beautiful fish

 

[Mowbz]

In that case, crack on!

My comments above were based on the stereotypical "tropicals" since tropical was the term used. (Before the intended species was listed!)

If you can provide what they have in the wild, and you can adequately heat it, why not?!