How much $$ have you dished out? (so far)

[speg]

I shoulda just stuck with my cat/dog and my guppies... I figure so far with my new tank i've already invested at least 2k into it. A lot of you are probably laughing right now cause that isnt very much to a lot of you that have probably already went 3 times that! To me though 2k in just two months is a lot of dough.
My tank surely is beautiful though and its not even nearly finished.. I figure once I have all the improvements and corals and fish that I plan to keep i'll be looking at around 3.5k.. but it'll take probably a year before I get my tank to what I picture it of becoming.. gotta hand select all the right corals/rocks of course!
My freshwater tank which i've had for about 8 years has probably cost me a total of 200 dollars (I got the tank/stand/light for free).
Some things are insanely expensive.. I have spent 70+ dollars on just one rock (14 lbs) and I swore to myself i'd NEVER do that :needhelp: Though recently one of my more expensive purchases which I thought was TOTALLY worth it.. I got a blue mushroom rock that had 20 polyps on it for 55 dollars with a 20% discount so came to like 46 or something after tax.
So was kinda curious what you've all spent (so far)

 

[drew2005]

Im around $2000 and i have no fish, inverts or coral yet

 

[who dey]

$3,000
3 months old

 

[bacffin]

About 1500 myself. No fish, inverts, or LR and I was given the tank and stand!

 

[nanoreef]

500.00 on my 10 so far

 

[fishfreek]

ha,ha,ha,ha, now that you mention it, i probably dropped over $3000 into my 45 reef over the past 5-6 yrs(please, don't tell my wife, ), and thats penny pinching (where i could) Wow! thats a chunk of change....... but worth every cent!!!!!!!!!

 

[mudplayerx]

$160 -55 gallon tank and pine scabinet stand
$500 -two 150watt metal halide hqi pendants
$230 -about 60 pounds of live rock
$75 -test kits
$100 -sand/live sand
$50 -three 170gph powerheads
$64 -two 330gph hob regent power filters
$40 -90gph visijet skimmer (don't laugh, I converted it to limewood airstone-driven)
$105 -additives, food, salt, water (for 6 months so far)
$60 -galaxea coral (was free from school, but this is what the go for around here)
$18- two condi anemones
$24- three saron shrimp
$9- three camel back shrimp
$9- coral banded shrimp
$26- crown leather coral
$14- sea cucumber
$5- brittle star
$14- yellow polyp frag
$8- star polyp frag
$14- giant feather duster
$4- yellow tailed damsel
$25- pulsing xenia
$18- mandarin dragonet

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$1,572 total spent in six months on a 55 gallon tank
Doesn't sound like much, but when you consider that I am a student with little pay, it is a lot. I've spent $1,800 on my jeep payments in the last 6 months lol. The best way to save money is to trade frags to places like universities and pet stores, and to buy only frags.

 

[little_d]

$220.00 on a 65 gallon tank
$200.00 on wood to build tank+canopy, free labor

$240.00 on ASM G2 skimmer
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$660.00 and a lot more to add, not cheap but no complain so far.

 

[porcpuf]

I have spent about a thousand this go around on a 55. Currently working on a 250 gallon with a 60 gallon sump/fuge that will run between 1000 - 1500 by the time it is fish ready (Not counting any live rock or sand)
Good thing my wife is not interested in my tanks and does read this board!

 

[larrynews]

about 4,000 in a year...the money pit as my wife calls it...but i have made mistakes

 

[monalisa]

I'm keeping the receipts, but I'm afraid to look... :scared:
Lisa :happyfish

 

[itchy]

put it this way a DIVORCE would have been cheaper :notsure:

 

[snipe]

$300 tank
$75 stand
$60 test kit
$40 skimmer "jebo 180 but I love it it was well worth it!"
$110 4x65 PC Lights with 4 moon lights
$111 75lbs of rock
$80 60lbs of sand and live sand
$20 four damsles "dont say anything I like damsles lol"
$160 Invert crew
$35 2 maxi jet 400's 1 jebo 1500 powerhead I got an extra for free since one broke and I fixed it"
$30 300Watt titanium heater with heater probe
$40 penguin 330 filter
Around $50 for my QT tank "has fake decor in it from my freshwater tank"
I think it was $60 160gallons of instant ocean
$10 hydrometer
$20 food
$5 net "cant ketch anything anyway lol"
Thats $1216 for a 55 gallon tank lol you all just dont know how to budget! lol.
Dont worrie im getting a job next month and just about everything is going into my tank "going to be anywere from $150 to $1500 I dont know forsure yet".

 

[maeistero]

Originally Posted by itchy
put it this way a DIVORCE would have been cheaper :notsure:

dang you must've been poor. i've only lost about 2k on salt and 10k on fresh. still have it all though and will for the rest of my life!!!

 

[schadiest1]

total cost on my 75 gallon reef tank = 1 arm and 1 leg

 

[evieb]

I've had my tank 2 1/2 months and have spent about 1000. Will probably be spending 1000 more this month on lighting and more sand! Hate thinking about how much money I'll be spending so I just think about how great my tanks gonna look and how much I'm gonna enjoy watching it!! Expensive but worth it!

 

[jreefa]

seven weeks in,75 gallon $3000 fish included

 

[thejdshow]

about 2 months, and nearing 2,000. Thats HUGE for a poor college student taking microsoft certification tests all summer long. Those tests are costing me crazy amounts of money.

 

[cbarnes]

to make you feel better--on a 90 gallon tank in 6 months I have spent about 4k---includes tank, stan, 90lbs LR, fish and inverts and lighting. i am only 2/3 done I am sure!!
$2600 on tank and art. rock as well as having someone set it up
$500 on LR
$400 on fish and inverts---which 3/4 died
$500 on having someone care for it
$300 on additional lighting
$250 on suppl. for rock---but that should last 6 mo-yr
and I am sure ther is stuff I am forgetting!!
I have a koi pond in my back yard that costs 1/2 and is 1/8 of the upkeep. On the upside I h am hoping that once I have the tank estabished it will be worth every penny.

 

[hopkins6]

I just bought a $500 75 gallon tank, but worth it