How much $ have you spent on your tank?

Okay. So I was realizing when I got home from petco today that I have spent a RIDICULOUS amount of money on my little 10 gallon tank.
I am going to try and figure it all out here... remember. I got this tank in March/April. 4 months tops.

Stuff:
10 gallon tank kit (filter/tank/light/heater) $50ish I believe
3lbs of gravel $11.97
air pump $12.99
extra hosing $3.29
bubble wand $6.99
anti-syphon thingiemabob $8.99
colluseum decor $22.99
bubble clam $6.99
4 fake plants $15.96
API master test kit $24.99
birthing net $5.99
algae scraper $3.99
Wardley water treater (no longer use) $5.39
Prime $8.99
TetraMin tropical crisps $3.49
HikarI Algae wafers $3.49
5 gallon bucket FREE! (stole it from work)
gravel vacuum $12.99
2 tubes real plants $11.98
plant weights $3.99
sub-total: $225.46
Fish:
3 initial platies (all 3 dead now) $14
2 balloon mollies (1 dead) $8
2 balloon mollies $8
1 dwarf gourami $7.99
2 oto's $7.98
sub-total: $45.97

GRAND TOTAL!!!!!!! $271.43 (I'm sure I've forgotten something... this price actually seems lower than I thought!)

How about you?

 

Well actually I was just wondering the same thing myself the other day.

I calculated I own about $600 worth of equipment (tanks, hoods, heaters, filters).
I'm guessing I've spent close to $1000 on fish so far.
This is for a 10gal, a 20gal, another not-quite-set-up 20gal, and a 10gal q tank.
And this from someone who can't even get a job yet....

 

do you want us to do this for ALL of our tanks? LoL in that case...

20 gallon tank - $20
filter $22
heater $20
plants $19
air pump $15

20 gallon tank - $25
divider - $10
heater $20
air pump $15

2 gallon - $20

10 gallon tank setup - $30
heater - $10


29 gallon w/ stand - $40
filter $30
gravel $20
air pump - $25
heaters $30


55 gallon w/ stand, filter - $180
heaters $35
another filter $35

API test kit - $33

Fish I CURRENTLY have:

5 African Cichlids - $ 38
1 Betta - $6
2 Panda Cory Cats $20
2 Platys $5
2 Otos $7
10 guppies $25
2 goldfish $1

grand total of $756 NOT including foods/treats/water treatments/medications that I have for all my fish.... I don't really want to know how much I spent on all that, especially all the foods and such...

:;quMichelle

 

Yeah, I am probably in the hundreds, too. I'd say at least $500, between tanks, decor, fish, plants and lighting. Most likely more like $800. Hmm, I guess I had better slow down on this hobby!

--R

 

To put it simply... we use an antenna on the roof to watch TV and we eat A LOT of hamburger helper these days...

 

To put it simply... we use an antenna on the roof to watch TV and we eat A LOT of hamburger helper these days...

RICH person! we're down to rice & pasta.. but our fish eat good. I don't know what we've spent this year, but it's gone past $1,000 a while ago.

 

I know i've spent like R800 on my and tank and that's mostly from my own pocket too!

 

Sheesh. I'm in for a long road....

 

yeah its an expensive hobby,

 

for my 29 gal. i'm around $280 (I bought a petsmart starter kit)
5 gal.-$60

 

To put it simply... we use an antenna on the roof to watch TV and we eat A LOT of hamburger helper these days...

RICH person! we're down to rice & pasta.. but our fish eat good. I don't know what we've spent this year, but it's gone past $1,000 a while ago.

If you want, I could send you 500 Top Ramen recipes. Dinner for two for about a buck...

 

that's why people started costco...you can buy a TON of food there...that's the best place to shop besides the lfs

 

I have no I idea how much I have spent but over at least $1000 already for my 55 gallon, 3 10 gallon, 1 5 1/2 gallon, and numerous fish bowls.

 

29 gallon freshwater
To start close to 200$ and it's probably close to 1,000 now from plants, fish, lighting, filters, heaters, food etc.

5.5 Saltwater tank
Close to 300$ on Live Rock, lighting, testing equipment, hardware, and livestock. Planning on spending another couple hundred by the end of the year between the two tanks or get a Wii, haven't decided yet but first I need to get a real job once I'm 16 in a month :;rab

 

I have over 100 tanks up and going, in a building I built for that purpose.

And it is only about a third full.

 

*sobs pitifully* Why did you have to remind me of this!? Why, why, why? :'( :'( :'(

 

ive got 3 tanks only one running,
igot my 32 Gallon for ?45 + filter , heater and the rest
I got my 26 gallon for free + filter , heater and the rest bout ?70 (external filter and heater, now in 32 gallon.)
I got a 28 gallon for ?50 + filter , heater and the rest

Now 6 Cardinal tetra for ?12
2 Cockatoo Cichlid for I think ?12
1 Angel Fish I think for ?6 (all I remember the cichlids and angel where ?18 together)
5 pentazona Barb ?12

around ?207 so far so around $420

 

28 gallon gonna go to Saltwater when I get more cash and my mum and bro want to share the 26 gallon

 

I got my first tank (15 gallon) for free and thought, 'Great, I'll get a couple inexpensive fish and have a cool hobby and some nice fish to watch for a few bucks..'

Then I got a better filter... plants... lights... a heater... more fish... testing kit...

Then I decided I needed bigger and more exotic fish and got a 55 gallon for a couple hundred..

Pretty soon I had to have some Discus, so I got another 80 gallon for a few more hundred..

Had to upgrade all filters and all lights..

Always getting new fish...

And new tanks...

That 'few bucks' quickly turned in to 'a few thousand bucks'...

And I'm still dreaming of more tanks and more fish.

MTS. When does it end? Pretty soon I'm gonna end up like Dino :;z and just buy out Sea World.

 

i'll split sea world with you...after that we can buy out ripleys aquariums...then start our own line of fish products and stores...then go into breeding the really expensive fish

 

I have over 100 tanks up and going, in a building I built for that purpose.

And it is only about a third full.

i'd have a lot of tanks too - if I got paid to run a mudball. :;z

 

I have over 100 tanks up and going, in a building I built for that purpose.

And it is only about a third full.

Wow! You must be a multimillionare!

 

lol $ $ $ $ $ $

Imagine if we all pooled our money and did something amazing with it!

 

lol $ $ $ $ $ $

Imagine if we all pooled our money and did something amazing with it!

well if you want to send me money, i'm good like that..

 

$1300.00 on my 55 Gal. Salt
$1200.00 on my 150 Gal. Fresh
Plus cleaning and testing supplies, filter media, and livestock.
I guess you could call it an expensive hobby. I have a 20 Gal. fresh that I'm not even counting. MAYBE $200 bucks tops.
Yeah now I know where my money goes. lol

lol $ $ $ $ $ $

Imagine if we all pooled our money and did something amazing with it!

I did something amazing with my money....I made a beautiful home for some really neat fish

 

Not a millionaire yet, but I am working on it.

 

Put it this way.. more money is spent on our tanks and their inhabitants than our car, and we still haven't bought a digital camera yet!!.. still, as far as we're concerned, it's money well spent considering how therapeutic fish can be melting away day to day stress.

 

Not a millionaire yet, but I am working on it.

great! is it too early to ask for some money? :;jk

 

I spent about $800 on fish. ;D Must spend more!

 

It's amazing how you don't know how much money you have spent on your fish until you look at the reciepts and add it up.

 

Ask away!!!!

It does not mean you'll get any!!!

Thankfully, I have reached the point that I am starting to make money on this hobby.

It only took 27 years to get to that point.

 

How are you making money?

 

Faaaaar too much money. Am thinking of leaving my job, though, so I need to cut right back.

 

I have gotten most of my stuff as gifts or freebees so I think I got lucky:

38 gallon tank: about $300 (got the tank, stand, filter, heater and decor as a gift )
(3)10 gallon tank: about $50
2.5 gallon tank: free!

Grand total: about $350

I would be afraid to look at all of the reciepts I have kept in case I ever take my fish back (a little pen on the dates and it is as good as new :;rab)

 

$108 on a 29 gal with filter, cover, light and heater...
78 for stand...


Good deal I think!!!

 

I sell fish, plants and supplies to locals, at auctions, and thru the clubs I belong to.

Dino

 

Ask away!!!!

It does not mean you'll get any!!!

Thankfully, I have reached the point that I am starting to make money on this hobby.

It only took 27 years to get to that point.

ok cool, can I borrow a million bucks or the matter/energy converter to create some large precious gems?

well, i'm at .5 years now, so that means around christmas of 2033 I'll start making profit. !

 

at the rate you are going, you might want that profit to come a little sooner

 

Upwards of ?200 ($400), and there aren't even any fish in it yet!

That really is a lot of money for someone on ?15 a week :'(

 

LOL.... great replies~
My husband said to me the other day.. " Do you realize how much we have spent on the fish and supplies?" I looked at him calmly and said " yes I do!"
jeesh.. He reminded me of the conversation I had with him about five months or so ago when I said.. " honey.. I found a great deal at the thrift store, I got a 10 gallon tank with heater and filter for only 5 bucks!" That was the start of it. Now its 3 ten gal tanks, one 2.5g, two 29 gallon and one 55gal.....and all the supplies in between!
Have we spent over a thousand dollars in the last five months on fishkeeping? yes we have.... not done yet but have to slow down at some point! lol..
Of course I have my eye on an addition of two gorgeous discus fish right now...