RE: [Killietalk] RE: Room heating systems

["Al Anderson" <killiman at iquest_net>]

Paradise Aquarium of NY, Beldt's Aquarium of MO., North Olmstead Aquarium of
north Olmstead, Jeff Kuklehan and Paradise Gardens of Mass. And Duane Wake
of Ft. Wayne Indiana. All have tanks heated by hot water running under their
tanks. That larger places had coal or oil burning furnaces heating the water
to run through 1 1/2 iron pipes. North Olmstead had the pipes running under
their vats in the back.


killiman at iquest_net
Al Anderson
6246 N Rural
Indianapolis IN 46220
317 253 2170

-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org]On
Behalf Of Koran, David HQ02
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:45 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: [Killietalk] RE: Room heating systems

I must apologize for not reading all of the threads but I was curious if
anyone has looked at or tried a dedicated hot water heating system.  I have
a
large unheated "room" with windows and a couple of skylights.  It has a
thermostated fan that kicks in at 90oF in the summer and I use the "room"
for
all of my summer breeding for Cyprinodons and other temperate killies.  In
the winter, even when the temperature drops below zero all I have every seen
a skin of ice on a few tanks.  Now that I have a lot of water mass in the
room/conservatory the low end is now the upper 30's.  A few miles away one
of
my former fellow commuters has a greenhouse about half the size of my
conservatory which they use to culture orchids.  Their requirement is
keeping
the temperature at a low of about 50oF.  In both cases, on most days you get
solar assistance so you are really looking at night heating.  What they did
was get a standard (probably mid-size one) hot water heater and run it
through some baseboard heating units and their thermostat control a small
circulating pump.  I know this is approaching a standard heating
installation
but they said they built the system themselves and that the electricity cost
to operate it was not too great.  So you can sort of run the thing off your
current hot water heater like I think Duane Wake is doing of get a small hot
water heater or something a little large to meet your needs.  The rest is
just how much plumbing you want to do.  Has anyone built a heating assist
unit like this?

Dave Koran


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