Backyard Aquaponics
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and set up a biofilter in the shed that runs all the time, including at night when the beds are off. This is what I will be doing this year for sure.

yep, should have added my vat had the biofilter running 24/7 sitting on top of it. :woops:

yep, insulation with an inshed bio is prolly the way to go. Thinking 'bout a potbelly stove too, to keep things nice and warm.

Haha good one TT. I was thinking of making a stainless steel water heater which runs on LPG. Super cheap have a camping water heater which runs on gas for $150. No doubt it has coper pipes in it that could be replaced weather it is worth it or not is another point. If you used a gas heater you could run some ducting from you flue to your greenhouse to warm it and add extra co2.

Or you could just whack a couple of aquarium heaters in. :-)

Good idea TT. Insulated the shed and heat the air space with wood heater would be cheaper then heating the water.. Real toasty watching your fish in winter.

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LB

I wouldn`t risk it even if the heater was 100% efficient. Carbon monoxide could really ruin your day

I love going in the fish room in winter, 25 °C all year round. Heating air is much easier and cheaper, the water does a good heat reservoir in case of temp variations. Just be carefull with the day whan the heater stops, the heat variation will suck all your water in the air and rot everything in sight.
DW was not very happy to know that we had to do the fish room walls before leaving (not yet) !

I run an open flame gas heater in the glasshouse over winter the air for my system is pumped from there the plants love it it warms the glasshouse beds them the whole system wins check my system

The cheapest heating for your shed is nat gas easer to control simple to hook up heaters are a dime a dozen

my gh only has shadecloth either end FF. I would lose a lot of heat I reckon. Could I run a similar thing in the shed?This would keep things nice and toasty and warm the water a bit.
How many hours a day were u running it and what was the cost? If it was close to the cost of running aquarium heaters, I would be all over it. I have a residential gas line to my bbq which we don't use. Could run that into the shed.

The shed is what i was thinking as for cost mines on a thermostat when the glasshouse heats up it turns down hard to judge cost as its on with the ducked heating hot water stove ect

OK so it looks like that was a bad idea then. I wonder how effective pumping warm air through the water in your tanks would be. Probably not worth it in your system TT although in others it might be.

You could do it but with heating the land underneath the green house, it would be a big heat bettery and release slowly in the air.

If the shed was just to become a fish room and nothing else, I would insulate the walls,roof and properly fit a double glazed window where the 30cm by 70cm window space is. Then run the gas heater during winter. It is still a compromised (mostly)fish room/storage shed atm.

Better try a methaniser in the shed, just have to increase a tiny bit the size of the gaz burners and the trick is done. And you'll be having enough green matter to feed it for a winter i suppose.