ESTIMATE TOTAL COST OF YOUR REEF TANK!

[6lue9uy]

Started half year ago. Was planning a budget build 20g long. Started at about 150 for the whole setup. Then things got out of hand...
About adding 1 item a month in order Ai prime, skimmer, ape, trident, dos.
Stock was gsp, xenia, 2 snowflakes.
One clown committed suicide, and just added a black/white clown to pair.
4 month later I've moved my 2 turtles out of 40g breeder and started moving everything in, and converting 20g in to sump.
6 month later/now ordered too many favia, favite, rim lord during live sale...
Just last week added mp40, builded a new ato reservoir with atk
Currently Sitting around 4-5k? After 6month into salt water
And Clearview custom lid in the making.

 

[guysmiley]

im up to around 6k and thats just the build and some gear the sickness is real

 

[cmross13]

$5,700 to get Red Sea Reefer 350 up and running with no livestock. $2,100 for the 40 gallon quarantine tank with no livestock.

Reefer 350 tank, stand, sump
Ecotech Vectra M2
Ecotech backup battery
2x Red Sea ReefLED 90s with mounting arms
2x Red Sea ReefWave 45 gyres
Red Sea RSK-300 skimmer
Red Sea mesh tip kit with Neat feed portal
Kessil H80 Tuna Flora Fuge light with flex arm
Custom acrylic sump divider for fuge
Aquatop UV Sterilizer
Twin RFG return nozzles
2x Finnex 300w heaters
Inkbird heater controller
$600 in rock and sand
$150 in bacteria, pods, Chaeto, and media spheres
Test kits

Aquatop Recife Eco 40 tank and stand
Custom acrylic media basket
Ecotech MP40 wavemaker
Ecotech backup battery
AI Prime 16HD with flex arm
2x Finnex 100w heaters with Inkbird controller
RFG return nozzle
Red Sea mesh too kit with feed portal
$150 in media spheres/gems, bacteria, cupramine, Hanna copper checker

with things that I’ve replaced or upgraded and livestock that has come and gone you could easily add another $7-8,000

 

[radiata]

What's the value of a 50 year learning curve? That's what I've spent...

 

[Azedenkae]

I actually kept track of all my spending, down to individual cents. XD I posted this graph up a month or more ago, hoping I would not see much of an uptick. Nope, still upticking lol.

 

[Tmtdvm]

Well, I’m probably upwards of what these new Electric Ford F-150 trucks are gonna run lol. Bottom line is I enjoy it and it keeps me out of trouble. It’s an obsession for me that I truly love!

 

[Scott B.]

120g mixed Reef with canopy and 6 stage RODI system with 40 RO tank and 40g SW mixing tank. I think I am in the $4,000 - $5,000 Range.

 

[DDenny]

Well Uhm $1,100 and it’s only 4g yeah the better half knows. She helps me tool for odd balls and hitchhikers.

 

[vetteguy53081]

NOT counting the other two tanks, 660g. . . about $23,000

 

[DDenny]

Want your kids to be drug free teach them to reef. They won’t have money for anything else. Hahahaha

 

[DVal]

That's a dangerous question lol. My wife is on here.

 

[pandaparties]

About 20k for my main tank >.> It feels so bad saying it out loud

 

[Buckster]

Purchased a used 180 with livestock, some rock and some coral. Changed the cabinet and bought ai 32, abyzz a100, rock, coral, fish and now realize its several thousand invested. Just got a Gem tang!

 

[Patman]

My newest is a 10 gallon cube, once the dark storms come out of QT it will easily be over 3k invested. That's not counting things like rodi, testing, and other consumables.

 

[Kfactor]

Not done my new setup yet but I got about 4G so far

 

[rhostam]

It’s a number that should not be spoken in my home.

Well, I’m probably upwards of what these new Electric Ford F-150 trucks are gonna run lol. Bottom line is I enjoy it and it keeps me out of trouble. It’s an obsession for me that I truly love!

Did you see they’re also marketing them as whole home battery backup EV [ahem, for aquarium equipment]?

 

[SWSVIC]

20 Gal. Red Sea Max Nano, went all out on automation, livestock, and coral. A little over $20K

 

[Metcho]

I can say I doesn’t matter anymore cause I’m divorced !! Told her the tank came first.

 

[ru4serious]

Including all the coral that I killed before I figured out what I was doing?

 

[Reefing102]

For me it’s more than a little but less than paying my taxes for the past 10 years.

In all honesty, current tanks 2.5 gallon pico (about $200 - not a reef, simple fowlr). 40 Gallon blue crab tank (about $500 - not a reef just a Atlantic blue crab that was given to me about 4.5-5”). Over all my prior tanks, likely around $7-$10k (10 Gallon Reef, 20 gallon reef, 26 gallon bow front reef, 5.5 gallon reef). I learned very quickly, used is just as good as new for many things.