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View Poll Results: What is your display reef worth to replace, per gallon
0 - 10 per gallon 4 4.88%
11 - 25 per gallon 1 1.22%
26 - 50 per gallon 19 23.17%
51 - 75 per gallon 20 24.39%
75+ per gallon 38 46.34%
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Old 11-23-2014, 01:05 AM
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If livestock is included, I sit roughly around $100/gallon. Approximate number; too hungry to add everything up
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Old 11-25-2014, 07:10 PM
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Im about $40 per gallon, but we just finished our move so livestock is low
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Old 11-25-2014, 11:03 PM
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well 14 years ago it was about 50/gal average, so it is probably gone up a bit.

I think what we have to remember is replacing what you have is cheaper than building what you have the first time. when I built my 90 gal I spent over 15000.00 but I could easily have built that result for under 8000.00

this is because over the year you are building your tank, you buy this, then decide you don't like it so you buy something else, and so. corals die so you replace them, same as fish.

if you have a set up your happy with you can just spend money on what worked, instead of the experimentation, you also have the opportunity to look at that 2000.00 buck skimmer and say did it really work much better than the 800.00 buck one I had. I think personally if your not sure what you want and just start making something it could easily cost 100.00/gal and up, but if you know what you want and are smart about it you could build it for much less than that, say 50 to 70/gal.

also note the price per gal is about as useless as a watts/gal as the tank gets bigger a similar set up system will get cheaper/gal

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My 265 isn't to bad on its own, but my stand pushes it way over the top.
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I should purchase a Gem Tang and run the cost up a lil. I kid of course.....


Anyone have a Gem Tang at 90% off?
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I voted in the 26-50 range but thats all used equipment that Ive gotten a deal on and rough guesstimate of live stock (still waiting to cycle). That being said if all equipment was new retail it would probably get bumped to the next tier 😒
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Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but has anyone actually tested the 'coral and livestock' question with their insurance company? I (un)lucked into a couple of tank failure threads on RC (tanks breaking, not what we normally call a tank crash) and not one of them got coverage for the coral or livestock. Fire, tank broke, tree fell on, the tank was covered as was equipment but never any of the living inhabitants.

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