How expensive is this hobby???

[fishygurl]

ok im not sure how far this will go but...sit back and really think of how much u have spent on everything then think of how much u have lost...MAYBE gained? doubt it.. lol
then post around how much it was
if you want u can post some other hobbies u like that are expensive too
Im just really curious about how much all of u have spent on your tanks, i know we all love them and think its worth it, i also wonder if you are in other expensive hobbies

 

[pontius]

my tank is a 180 gallon with custom made oak stand and canopy, in-stand fuge/sump, etc etc. with everything including livestock, I'd guess probably $3000+ with an ongoing cost of about $200 per month (electricity, salt, water, bulbs, new livestock, etc).
I'm also into guitars, which can be expensive. like fish, I always think "I could definitely use another guitar".

 

[markeo99]

I probably have 3000 into my 55gal worst part is killed most of it in the learning proscess

 

[groupergenius]

I don't even want to think of how much I have spent over 30+ years of this hobby. Much less, how much I have lost. I like to think I have given alot of it away though. Which makes me feel a little better.

 

[snakeblitz33]

In my lifetime, I have probably spent near $30,000 of it on aquaria.

 

[aquaknight]

Expensive enough for me to get up at 8am every weekday now.

 

[coral keeper]

I'd say about $1,000(maybe a bit more) on all my FW tanks, SW tank, and my 2 FW ponds.

 

[reefforbrains]

I will never admit how much I have spent on this hobby. Its downright incriminating for a married man to speak of such things.

 

[tizzo]

I'm on my third tank, and my first one was ALL retail prices. I'd say an easy 10 grand so far.
but when you total of like that, it looks intimidating and almost stupid. But the hobby definitly nickle and dimes ya.

 

[porkchop48]

I would say I have about 4 grand rapped up in my 92 gal so far.
That is uncluding losses and stuff that did not go so well
Other expensive hobby is my dart frogs. In my frog room I probbaly have about 6 grand wrapped up in tank and frogs.
Thank fully they are finally almost all breeding well and I am started to make a couple hundred of that back a month. But then all I manage to do is buy more frogs

 

[aldiaz1221]

Originally Posted by ReefForBrains
http:///forum/post/2595523
I will never admit how much I have spent on this hobby. Its downright incriminating for a married man to speak of such things.
i hear ya man i wont even discuss when my buddies come and and drool all over my tanks then they ask how much do spend on all this then i get that felling that my wife is watching me i look over and sure enough she waiting for me to tell him. i just told ill tell you later!

 

[spiderwoman]

way too much. If I'd give you a figure for each of our tanks, you'd call us nuts and we already know that

 

[mgatdog]

Well just started on my 3rd tank,which is a new 125. I got it in Lancaster Pa at a pet store for a dollar a gallon. What a buy!!! The stand I will build myself. But as for the lights my WIFE is not to happy for the price its going to cost. Just make it short my Wife said its time to find a cheaper hobby

 

[fats71]

I have a 2x 75 gals. one picotope and yesterday bought a 125 with stand duel overflow and also a 315 drilled etc with stand i'm going to reface and side. I bought 2 sump/refuges one that is rated up to a 400 gal tank tek 8 bulbs a 72 inch lamp another skimmer sock kits etc... I was in this hobby like 20 years ago and had 20 plus tanks with a buddy of mine so dunno cost there but just restarted in January and I have around 9 to 10k in everything from rock to sand to equipment to livestock.
I will also say that I do not have enough LR,LS pumps sumps, skimmers yet either...

 

[wangotango]

With some of the new restrictions on livestock from Tonga and Australia, I wonder how much prices will increase

I've spent in the neightborhood of $4000 on my tanks.
-Justin