Heating multiple fish tanks in my fish store?

[zedhed]

I own one of the largest Fish stores in the West Texas Area. I Just bought the store and have a question about how to Heat the tanks with out allot of power consumption and expense. I have heard of using some kind of Heat Tape like for Reptiles or tape to keep Pipes from freezing. what I gather is you place it underneath the tanks. Does any one know about this and might be able to point me in the right direction to buy it or ANOTHER GREAT IDEA!

I have been experimenting with my master air system that feeds all the tanks and added a Ceramic home heater near its intake to help keep the air warmer. It helps but does not warm the tanks by its self, it seems to at least keep them from getting colder as the winter gets closer.

So please help me to fine a good way to heat 100+ tanks.
Thanks.

 

[Pharaoh]

If it is a centralized filter system. You could buy a big submersible heaters to go into the sump.

You could try and heat the entire room that the tanks are in.

If all of your tanks are separate, you will have to look at buying heaters for each individual tank that you want heated.

 

[LeToastaire]

My experience with heat tape (not for aquatics) is that it helps to maintain the temperature, and not necessarily raise it (that is if you wrap it around a pipe). I think it would take a lot of heat tape, and you have to be able to regulate the power that went to it, and the heat it put out. I do not know how well it could heat an entire tank or series of tanks if it was laid under the tank.

You could look into solar powered pool heaters for a large sump.

 

[Onion01]

from what i've heard from other large store owners, it is cheaper to keep the place heated to the desired temperature than each tank

 

[oscarluvr]

from what i've heard from other large store owners, it is cheaper to keep the place heated to the desired temperature than each tank

 

[cipolla6]

"The fish place" in buffalo near me, a fairly large business, heats the entire building. then gives supplemental heating in the form of regular tank heaters for fish that need higher temps. they do this becuase they keep some cold water fish and it can't get too hot.

 

[calamari]

The best way would be just to heat the room. i use to work at a pretty big fish stroe around my way and thats how we did it. and we had something like 300+ tanks

 

[StripeGirl]

from what i've heard from other large store owners, it is cheaper to keep the place heated to the desired temperature than each tank

i did mine(only 50 tanks) this way,My friends were always like"Dam its hot in here" but the fish were happy.

 

[jjdsplace]

i agree with most of the above it would be cheaper to heat the room rather than each tank

 

[Westie]

Thats what my LFS does. Certain things like discus you'll see a heater added to their tank.