With winter time coming how is everybody keeping their pool ponds warm enough to keep these fish alive what's the most cost-effective way to heat 1,000 gallon pond that's outside
Tiger shovelnose catfish
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It will help if we knew what State or country you live in.
I'm in Florida I'm just kind of asking a general question
Welcome to MFK! I've been running and troubleshooting pool pond issues for quite some time.
First, do you have any insulation beneath the pond? If so, that will definitely help retain heat.
I recommend installing two to three heaters with a wattage of 250 to 300 watts, all set to maintain a temperature of 32 degrees Celsius. Additionally, cover the pond with large styrofoam or thermocol sheets and insulate the pool walls similarly. Since being above ground and open is what causes the majority of heat loss, this will significantly reduce it.
If all else fails, consider wintering your fish by bringing them indoors to a small but adequate pond or tank until winter passes.
Edit to say, loving your pond and fish. I also have a 500 gallon pool pond, with a pacu, RTC, two Midevils and one Silver Arowana.
First, do you have any insulation beneath the pond? If so, that will definitely help retain heat.
I recommend installing two to three heaters with a wattage of 250 to 300 watts, all set to maintain a temperature of 32 degrees Celsius. Additionally, cover the pond with large styrofoam or thermocol sheets and insulate the pool walls similarly. Since being above ground and open is what causes the majority of heat loss, this will significantly reduce it.
If all else fails, consider wintering your fish by bringing them indoors to a small but adequate pond or tank until winter passes.
Edit to say, loving your pond and fish. I also have a 500 gallon pool pond, with a pacu, RTC, two Midevils and one Silver Arowana.
Don’t keep tanks or ponds that size, unfortunately!
I like what AR1 described above. The better you insulate your pond, the smaller the heaters and the less electricity you'd need. And the opposite is true. Or many FL peers cope with cold by increasing well water running into their ponds, that is, if they use well water for their pond water.
that's a pure tiger shovelnose? it looks like one of the tiger-redtail hybrids.
It's a hybrid tiger shovelnose red tail hybrid I also have a red tail cat that's just a little smaller and a tiger shovel nose that's about 4 in Long in a 65 gallon grow out before it goes to the 140 gallon grow out pond before it eventually goes into the thousand gallon monster pool pond
Yeah I got about a half inch of foam kind of looks like interlocking puzzle pieces they're like 2x2 square that was just to keep the pond from roughing on the concrete below it other than that no insulation last year I had smaller fish and less fish so I was able to take them out and I wrapped the pond with a tarp and put a thousand watt heater in there and everything seemed to be fine but it also didn't get as cold the year before I had a smaller pond and a much smaller heater and the water got down to 50° and a lot of my tropical fish did not make it
