heating water and pumping it to multiple aquariums

Derheatmeister

Do you have everything plumbed together ? if so then you may use one heatexchanger and install it inline with your Pump with a setpoint control/high limit control piped in a primary/secondary configuration. but this all depends on the existing boiler and the situation that you have!

I hope you do not have a gas Furnace!Do you have Steam or hot water baseboard?

Is this a aquarium store? and if so are you keeping the New fish seperated from the rest of the larger tanks for monitoring ?

Sorry no pricing on this site but i can tell you that fresh water vs salt is cheaper to handle.

John Bovie

heating water and pumping it to multiple aquariums

I have a fishroom (in basement) with 20 tanks (approx 1200 gallons) and 3 tanks upstairs (approx 400 gallons) I want to use a 125 gallon fishtanks as a filter for all the tanks and heat it with the gas furnace( mt friend said using a heat exchanger) and I would like to pump water to all the tanks (he said a circulating pump) from the basement to 1st floor I have heaters in a filter now but how would the heat exchanger heat the water in the tank (copper line in filter?)without adding more water to tank I dont know if this would work.Any suggestions would be great also how much do you think for parts and then labor(just to hook up exchanger to boiler and filter and 1 line out from pump I can do the rest of the plumbing to all the tanks) Thanks for any help John

Charlie from wmass

Salt or fresh water? Also what kind of temps are you trying to maintain? Third where are you located? I am guessing you are loooking to reduce your electric bill as warming 1600 gallons of water is like heating a small pool. I would look into a pool heat exchanger.

John Bovie

freshwater heat between 76 and 80 degrees I am in neptune NJ and yes electric bill is about $400 running all these heaters and pumps thanks John

John Bovie

I have a gas heater and hot water boiler no this is my house breeding room downstairs and show tanks upstairs want to run it off exsisting heater anyway to run a pipe into filter to heat the water thanks John

Derheatmeister

I still do not understand "Gas heater" is it a Furnace that blows warm air out of Ducts??


If not then:Check out a spa exchanger i.e. Triangle Tubes TTP or Maxi flow series .Triangle Tube is also located in NJ .i think i would have the filter before this.

John Bovie

cast iron radiators water not steam(sorry I am not a plumber)

Henry

Stay away from copper! It will kill all your fish. I have built the aquatics lab at a local university. When using water that was filtered using reverse osmosis, the pvs piping gave of clorites into the water. We then had to install a 100 galloon charcoal filter and the univeristy had to ad a box of Arm & Hammer every two days!

I had 6 aquariums that used nylon and teflon piping with great success.