Garage help

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Bonne46

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I have a 2 car garage that I need some help with. I don't park my car in the garage but the garage is used for a gym, theres a little room built inside, and the rest is storage. Now since its winter time and that means cold weather it gets pretty darn cold out there. Well I use to till the cold came in, house a RES out in my garage but I had to bring her in because the cold weather was just dominating the heater in the tank. This turtle will go back out in the garage when it gets warm, but I don't want to have to always bring her in during the winter times. So I am trying to get this garage to stay as warm as possible/ the tank water as warm as possible.

Now her tank will soon be a rubbermaid stock tank, with a canister filter. My question is what can I do to keep this garage as warm as possible with out going out and buying a eletric heater? Propane heaters have me a little nervous cause of fire issue.
 
I don't think there is a whole lot you can do without spending a good amount of money, are the walls of the garage bare concrete/brick? or are they finished with drywall?

I would also not feel comfortable leaving a propane or even an electric heater switched on in there all winter long. I think I would just suck it up and bring the turtle inside every winter.
 
Walls are dry wall. I do know I need to do a little work by the garage doors to keep the drafts down, but I'm trying to think what else I can do. Should I run more then one heater?
 
Have you considered just letting her go into hibernation in your garage? She could easily survive the winter in your garage with how cold it gets in NJ.
 
No actaully never thought of that. She never hibernated before so I didn't know if she would be ok. What all should I do with the hibernation? Just stop feeding her? Should I remove her basking area?
 
In the wild they bury themselves into the mud at the bottom of ponds. You can duplicate this in your stock tank by placing about 10-12" of mud in it. You can use organic garden soil mixed with clay and sand if you want to. Gradually lower the water temp and she should just bury into the mud. As it warms up in the spring you can slowly raise the water temp with an aquarium heater until she wakes up. Pretty simple.
 
Well I don't have the stock tank yet. I am trying to determine when I will be able to get to a tractor supply since work has been giving me boat loads of hours. Right now she is in a normal fish tank.
 
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