Maybe, but for a 1000 sq ft room. Dehumidifiers do 80% of the heating. The actual heater is to only supplement the cold months really. Right now 1 dehumidifier is heating my whole garage fish room and keeping it at 65 degrees in there. I have heaters in a few tanks to take it higher than that. But if I added another dehumidifier in there it would be 90 degrees probably. Without the dehumidifier on out there, the temp drops to outside temperature. So it would be 35 degrees today, instead of 65 right now.
A fish store operates differently that people's houses. In your house usually you dont have the ambient heat from 300 lighting fixtures going. A blower that is mounted near the ceiling, taking hot air from the ceiling and injecting it into the tanks. Plus water is a great insulator. It takes a week to heat it up and a week for it to cool down.
If there is a need for a better heating solution I'll definitely install it. But most of the problem fish stores have heating is taking out the humidity. It's harder to heat wet air than dry air. Also in the summer when it's unbearable in a fish store it's the humidity.
A fish store operates differently that people's houses. In your house usually you dont have the ambient heat from 300 lighting fixtures going. A blower that is mounted near the ceiling, taking hot air from the ceiling and injecting it into the tanks. Plus water is a great insulator. It takes a week to heat it up and a week for it to cool down.
If there is a need for a better heating solution I'll definitely install it. But most of the problem fish stores have heating is taking out the humidity. It's harder to heat wet air than dry air. Also in the summer when it's unbearable in a fish store it's the humidity.
