Fish Room In the Garage help

[shorjai]

Hey folks,

Need some help and ideas here. I am planning to use my garage as a fish room. I live in a brick townhouse which all the houses are connected to each other. so the only garage door are facing the street which cold air can get in. Beside insulating the garage door and insulate the tank. any ideas what i can do to keep tank around 79 degree? The key is i do not wanted to spend alot of $$ on the electricity bill over the winter time.

Anyone have their fish room in their garage? please let me know.

Thanks.

 

[albano]

I would think that you'll need to add heat to the garage...insulation will not prevent it from getting very cold!

 

[tacson]

id say spend money insulating the garage .. right now im shutting down my system due to too cold in the garage . I run 1500 watts of heater for the tank already and my water stays to 70 when 10 degrees outside ... my advise is spend money to well insulate the garage ... that's my 4cents . good luck

 

[marrone]

My friend took part of his garage and set it up as a fish room. He put up a wall between the doorway and the garage entrance and insulated the wall. He still had some problems with the cold in the winter but it was manageable. You may also want to put something down on the floor, especially since it's cement, as that will probably help with the cold.

 

[Mark2480]

What kind of heat do you have in the house, if the town house is forced air heat and there's a room over the garage then you could tap into the heat vents and heat the garage to the same temp as the house.

 

[Skaters216]

I would sell the dining room set and make that the aquarium room. But all jokes aside the Garage gets Very cold and if you don't want to spend a lot of money then stay out of the GARAGE!!!!!!!

 

[Skaters216]

If your tapping off any type of heating system you would have to put a separate thermostat in the garage to keep it the same as the house, you would need to keep your heat at 85 degrees in the house to even keep the garage a little warm.