costs
 

Is there every a time in this hobby when your aren't at the LFS spending money????

Haven't bought dry goods in several months... last thing I bought at all for my tank was a gorg frag from Des in Edmonton, in January I believe.

I try not to think about it :razz:

What do you use for calcium replacement teevee?

Is cost per week including random livestock purchases, equipment upgrades, frivilious extras, or are we talking about maintence costs such as salt, additives, electrical, yada, yada, yada....

maintaince, seeing as how you can't add a fish/coral per week

$20 per week is a little high but you don't have anything lower so thats what i voted :biggrin:

I have a calcium reactor. CO2 tank: $80. Reactor: $300 I think... Selenoid and bubble counter: $120. Container of ARM: $30. Really fast growing corals and no dosing: priceless.

I actually calculated the costs last year to be roughly $121 per month. This covered all associated costs of maintenance.

I think I would need a 7.50/week option.. doesent cost that much to run the tank unless you include livestock purchases and you do a lot of them..

Steve

I think you're wrong Steve. Calculate salt, hydro, water, replacement RO membranes, media, CO2, the list goes on. Certainly more than $30/month.

Oop yeah forgot electricity... maybe $7.50/week? Water is free out here...

yup I was wrong I used 24.69 in power alone.. as for membranes i have that calculated into the cost per gal of water as I use my RO for home consumption so not the whole cost is for the tank. this works out to 0.05/gal and I use 35 gal per week on average so that is 7.00/month, salt is 4.00/month, co2 and media is nothing as I am not running a reactor. so food, about 10.00/month.

so grand total for everything is 45.69/month or 11.42/week so I was under by 4 bucks a week.

and that was estimating everything high.. the most I have ever used is 35 gal of water in a week usually it is about 25 gal. I added 20 percent to my power to compensate for power factor and slight differences in ballasts. my heater never runs but I still put it as 1 hour a day at 500 watts (just in case both were to come on at once.) oh forgot light replacment so add another 5.00 /month so were at 16.42/week.. bah i will juat say 20.00 sence I am going to put a reactor online again.

but out of that I only pay 10 of it :mrgreen:

Steve

as it is here up to a specific amount.. and I have never hit the next stage sence3 I started the tank.. so I pay the same for water weather I have the tank or not.

Steve

I think I'm closer to what Brad said, $30/week. Every weekend I'm at the LFS droppping $20-30. I haven't bought live stock for about 4 weeks now. My tank is only 8months old and still hasn't stabilized so maybe if it ever does, the costs will go down.