What is in your tank and how much did it cost?

[blj1234]

What's in your tank and how much did it cost? (This is where it's not fun, adding up the bills)

 

[hawkfish]

i assume you mean just livestock. 1 royal gramma 16, 1 lawnmower blenny 23, big mushroom rock 30, 1 milky leather 30, lr 25# 110, dlsb 60# 40, coming soon 1 yellow headed jawfish ?.
total for livestock: $249. this is in a 29G tank. i didnt realize id spent this much on livestock. crazy.
Z

 

[striker]

29 gallon, icecap 2-95watt vho hood+fan, bak pak skimmer, 2 penguin trickle, 3 powerheads, 55 lbs premo-deco aquacultured lr, 40lbs ls, percula, sebae, damsel, royal gramma and some mushrooms. Total cost about 1,100 and just the beginning. lr and lighting were the most expensive but well worth it.

 

[fishymissy]

I figured up what it cost to set up the 29g awhile back and it ended up around $890. Since then, the 29g has been retired and the rocks, corals, fish and inverts are mostly in the 20g, but some of the rocks are in the 90g and I'm not going to try to figure out this mess!!!

 

[rmd8110]

i have 225 lbs of live rock..it was $5.00 per lb. 180 lbs ls..that's about $250. my invert package was about $100. i got ripped off on the tank...it cost me $1550....but the guy didn't do a good job with the system so i had to have someone else redo it and that was about $600. Then i've spent about another $150. in the rest of the live stock....plus $50 a month for water....whew....good thing it's such a fun hobby since it cost so much!

 

[hawkfish]

with equipment and everything it is sitting around 850 and im not done yet!!
Z

 

[heavenly damsel]

55 gallon tank, stand and cover we already had, tetra tec 300 filter, 50/50 light bulb, 2 power heads, 80 lbs LR, cc substrate, damsels, condy anemone, invert package from SWF.com, red scarlet scallop, feather duster, green stripe mushrooms, xenia and 2 oysters. Have spent close to $1500.
Currently pricing a 150 gallon tank setup with a sump and PC lighting, should come in arround $2000 at LFS. Then will look at some corals and real fish. Want a Purple tang and pair of clowns with their host anemone. Corals as they appeal to us.
All well worth the money!
The oysters came from the local seafood market, are select oysters and cost 50 cents each.

 

[25gator]

180 reef 220lb rock 1200. tank stand canopy 1100 new light on order 1600 fish corals crabs ect. iwill be going over 9000 in one more month but i lost 500 in fish to ick last month no quarentine tank yet!!! thats not including 75 agresive going to be min. 180 in a month

 

[blackdog]

Let me get this straight, Heavenly... You have two oysters in your tank that you bought from the fish market!? That like Marge Schott adopting that cow that escaped from the slaughterhouse.
Oh, wait, on second thought maybe you meant fish store as in local fish store. Um, never mind <img src="graemlins//silly.gif" border="0" alt="[silly]" />

 

[richard rendos]

It is a little embarassing. I am gonna give you cost on my 120 only. I have rehashed my original setup many times, but will give you cost as it sits now.
Tank 120 gallon 4X2X2 reef ready custom $200.00
Stand and Canopy $350.00
Miscellaneous plumbing $60.00
ETSS Reef Devil 3 Protein Skimmer and pump $300 (----)
Calcium reactor $200.00
CO2 system $200.00 (----)
Neptune Aquacontroller $300.00 (----)
2X250 watt MH lights $300.00 with bulbs
2X110 watt VHO $200.00 with bulbs
2X110 watt VHO blue $200.00 with bulbs
1/4 HP chiller $600.00
140 pounds live rock $560.00
Carib Sea sand $60.00
Custom Sump $130.00
Return pump $120.00
Wavemaker $180.00
Osci-wave $50.00 (----)
Circulation power heads $45.00
GFCI circuits in wall $200.00
RO/DI unit with storage containers, etc. $250.00
Live stock has mostly been free (frags) but estimate $600.00 for things I did buy like fish and snails, crabs, shrimps, etc.
Told you it was embarassing.
Total is around $4805.00
All of this stuff is also at wholesale prices because I used to own a pet shop. Retail is around $7500.00
I also have a 54 gallon bow front... don't want to go into that right now. I am feeling a little sick.

 

[bigred]

In my 55 gal I have about $1500 invested including tank/stand/hood, filter/skimmer, 2 powerheads, 4 fish, 5 shrimp, 2 stars, 254 watts of PC lights, 18 corals, heater, 3 bags of live sand, and 70 lbs liverock. The wife doesn't like to see that amount but she like to sit and look at the tank too.
In the 70 gal I don't have much yet but about a $1000 including 3 fish, 4 corals, 2 shrimp, 265 watts of PC lights, tank/stand/hood, 100 lbs of live rock, 3 bags of live sand, filter/skimmer, 3 powerheads, and heater. This one still has alot to go. I just spent $220 ordering stuff from saltwaterfish.com for this tank.
I think thats about it.

 

[ky]

After med school my student loan dept was over $130,000.00, so my wife doesn't let me talk about debt anymore;-) I figure, with my three tanks, probably 15-20K.

 

[treble]

I prolly spent around $700 on my 16 gallon tank. I got totally ripped off on the original tank. If I had been smart about it, I could have done it for about $400.

 

[galina]

So far, I've spent about 300.00 on my tank.. but I havn't even bought any LR yetr so lots more to come.