Heating fish water - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T16:02:12Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topics/heating-fish-water?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A592252&xg_raw_resources=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noHow to get 2000ºF Solar Power…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-10-14:4778851:Comment:6164742015-10-14T23:03:56.625ZMichael & Kristine Stoddardhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/MichaelKristineStoddard
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<p>This might be a little overkill... </p>
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<p>This might be a little overkill... </p> Ian Cameron said:
I used co…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-02-16:4778851:Comment:5972152015-02-16T00:51:47.720ZGreg Gorehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/GregGore
<p><br></br> <br></br> <cite>Ian Cameron said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/heating-fish-water?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A597023&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment597211"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>I used copper pipe around the woodstove and transitioned it to black plastic water line, coiled in ft and raised bed. Works well, using a 12v hot water RV pump.</p>
<p><br></br>Ian, I would not use copper as it's poisonous for some fish,…</p>
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<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Ian Cameron said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/heating-fish-water?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A597023&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment597211"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>I used copper pipe around the woodstove and transitioned it to black plastic water line, coiled in ft and raised bed. Works well, using a 12v hot water RV pump.</p>
<p><br/>Ian, I would not use copper as it's poisonous for some fish, I used stainless steel tubing for refrigeration.</p>
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what heater did…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-02-16:4778851:Comment:5969842015-02-16T00:41:16.961ZGreg Gorehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/GregGore
<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Zach said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/heating-fish-water?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A597023&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment597023"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>what heater did you get for a greenhouse that is not pricey? looking for one myself.</p>
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<p>I found some heaters at petsmart and other places for about $40 for a 250-300 gallon tank.</p>
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<p><br/> <br/> <cite>Zach said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/heating-fish-water?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A597023&xg_source=msg_com_forum#4778851Comment597023"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>what heater did you get for a greenhouse that is not pricey? looking for one myself.</p>
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<p>Zach,</p>
<p>I found some heaters at petsmart and other places for about $40 for a 250-300 gallon tank.</p>
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</blockquote> I used copper pipe around the…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-02-15:4778851:Comment:5972112015-02-15T21:27:54.835ZIan Cameronhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/IanCameron
<p>I used copper pipe around the woodstove and transitioned it to black plastic water line, coiled in ft and raised bed. Works well, using a 12v hot water RV pump.</p>
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<p>I used copper pipe around the woodstove and transitioned it to black plastic water line, coiled in ft and raised bed. Works well, using a 12v hot water RV pump.</p>
<p></p> what heater did you get for a…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-02-15:4778851:Comment:5970232015-02-15T21:02:38.385ZZachhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/Zach
<p>what heater did you get for a greenhouse that is not pricey? looking for one myself.</p>
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<p>what heater did you get for a greenhouse that is not pricey? looking for one myself.</p>
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<p>Zach</p> Thanks pam thats some good in…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-01-12:4778851:Comment:5925662015-01-12T19:24:24.305ZGreg Gorehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/GregGore
Thanks pam thats some good info about the tilapia
Thanks pam thats some good info about the tilapia Jay said:
Stainless steel pip…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-01-12:4778851:Comment:5926572015-01-12T19:20:01.954ZPam DeLonghttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/PamDeLong
<p><cite>Jay said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/heating-fish-water#4778851Comment592252"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Stainless steel piping and or stainless steel heating element. But I would try trout Tila<span style="font-size: 13px;">pia die at 50 deg.</span></p>
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<p>I believe that depends on your breed of Tilapia.</p>
<p>I know that holds true for the white that I'd had a couple of years ago.…</p>
<p><cite>Jay said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/heating-fish-water#4778851Comment592252"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Stainless steel piping and or stainless steel heating element. But I would try trout Tila<span style="font-size: 13px;">pia die at 50 deg.</span></p>
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<p>I believe that depends on your breed of Tilapia.</p>
<p>I know that holds true for the white that I'd had a couple of years ago. I now have all blues and they are the most cool/cold hardy of Tilapia that I'm aware of.</p>
<p>I'm in Tucson, AZ and have a 750gal stock tank in the back yard with well over 100 blues of various sizes. I have a heater, largest I could find, that is for an aquarium up to 125 gallons. Of course it doesn't sufficiently heat as much water as I have, but it helps to give them a somewhat 'warm zone'. The water thermometer has hovered around 46 during our coldest days recently, and the fish loss has been very minimal. Otherwise, the temps range from 50-60 on a daily basis. They've been outside since we had warm weather, so they appear to acclimate with the weather gradually getting colder.</p>
<p>Last fall when I harvested about a dozen, I was surprised it took close to 45 minutes in the ice bath before they succombed to it. The whites I'd had were ready to process within 15-20 minutes.</p>
<p> </p> You can use copper depending…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-01-10:4778851:Comment:5923852015-01-10T03:07:55.902ZGreg Gorehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/GregGore
You can use copper depending on what your growing. But talking with others its best not to use copper at all as the copper its self can kill many types of fish , water snails etc. The copper leaches in to the water. I found some stainless steel tubing online for $70 for 50' . Good luck greg
You can use copper depending on what your growing. But talking with others its best not to use copper at all as the copper its self can kill many types of fish , water snails etc. The copper leaches in to the water. I found some stainless steel tubing online for $70 for 50' . Good luck greg CSST gas pipe can be peeled (…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-01-10:4778851:Comment:5921932015-01-10T03:05:07.983ZScott Robertshttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/ScottRoberts
<p>CSST gas pipe can be peeled (take the yellow plastic wrapper off it) and used for heat transfer. It's stainless steel, safe for fish, and reasonably priced.</p>
<p>CSST gas pipe can be peeled (take the yellow plastic wrapper off it) and used for heat transfer. It's stainless steel, safe for fish, and reasonably priced.</p> I live over in Michigan, a li…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-01-10:4778851:Comment:5921902015-01-10T02:33:01.355ZGene Parbsthttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/GeneParbst
<p>I live over in Michigan, a little colder here. I'll be starting my first AP system this spring inside a large pool building/greenhouse. Similar situation, I want to heat two 250 gal totes for Tilapia. The totes will be insulated to cut down the heat loss. I built a wood fired hot water heater using a single loop of 1 1/2" copper inside the stove. Last winter a friend raised a dozen Tilapia in a hot tub and used my wood stove to heat the water. He was just raising fish, no AP. The…</p>
<p>I live over in Michigan, a little colder here. I'll be starting my first AP system this spring inside a large pool building/greenhouse. Similar situation, I want to heat two 250 gal totes for Tilapia. The totes will be insulated to cut down the heat loss. I built a wood fired hot water heater using a single loop of 1 1/2" copper inside the stove. Last winter a friend raised a dozen Tilapia in a hot tub and used my wood stove to heat the water. He was just raising fish, no AP. The greenhouse temp got down to freezing and he kept the hot tub at 75 - 80 by building a small fire once a day. He would pump out about 15 gallons and replace it with <em>heated well water</em>. Back then I wasn't thinking about doing AP. Now I'm retired and have time and resources to make a go of it. I'll use the same wood stove water heater, because I saw no harm done to his Tilapia. I think the concern using copper is with chlorinated water as chlorine reacts with copper. I will also not be reheating the fish tank water as that would be more likely to leave a scale/residue inside the copper heating pipes. I plan to heat well water to exchange the fish tank water. The fish tank water will go to a sediment tank and then be used for AP grow beds. If you have well water I think you can safely use copper tubing, but I think it's best to not heat fish water in the copper tubing. Whatever you do, please keep us posted and I plan to do the same.</p>