How Much Do You Spend On Fish Food

[emmsy]

How much on an average week/month do you spend on food for your fish?

This question is sparked off by me going down the LFS, and got another tub of cichlid pellets. I decided to go for the real jumbo size simply for the economy factor that buying large tins brings. Brought it to the till and he said "That'll be £21 for the food please". I then looked at the smaller tins for comparison, and some of the smaller tins we like £8-9.
As anyone knows if you have a large tank with large hungry fish, the cost of food can soon mount up.

Emma

 

[ALEXF]

thankfully for me i dont spend alot. I think sine i started in jan. i may have spent $50.00 bucks on food. becasue of all the differnt things i keep, and i was struggling to get some fish to eat so i was trying different things that i dont use at all now.

 

[invader]

I don't want to add it all up, but I go through a pack of frozen bloodworms every week... it's not pretty. I also feed raw, frozen shrimp, hikari cichlid gold pellets (not cheap!), earthworms, red wigglers, and other misc. things.

 

[emmsy]

I know. If you did add it up, roughly what do you think it would be?


Emma

 

[LosC519]

Haven't bought fish food in over a month. Partially becuase the month before I was spending 5 bux here, 7 bux there, etc etc. So now im stocked up with pellets, wafers, micro food, live frozen food, everything except waste of money flakes.

 

[digdog]

My live bloodworm and shrimps comes to 9.20 a week, then you have frozen mussles and cockles, fozen blister packs of discus food, tubs of flake and plec pellets. I am not even going to guess. Scarey.

 

[Corleone]

Like a few people above, I'm spending $3-12 here and there, and $6 every other week for live foods. Doesn't add up to much unless I run low on several things at once. I said just the other day my cat ate more than my fish, but typing it out, the fish definitely cost at least twice as much to feed.

 

[kewskills]

i buy

10 packs of live brine shrimp & blood worm £6
2-3 pounds of live shrimp £3
1/2 pack of muscles frozen £4
1/2 pack fish frozen £4
lots of flake £1
Carnivore pellets and massiveore pellets £3

so averagely i spend about £20 a week !!!!!!! jees i wish i had not added that all up need to stop getting tanks and fish..............

 

[Helen G]

When I got my first tank, I must have spent about £30 on foods (lasted me a while though!)

 

[ALW]

I spend arround £10 a month

 

[shelaghfishface]

the last time i went to the lfs, ( not pet shop) i spent £50( 2 oscars + plants), the next day-£15( cichlids stix, and,aqua plus)then the next day ( yesterday) i spent £32 on a new filter for the fry tank+£2.95 for blood worm+ £3 for goldie food

i have yet to go to the lfs and come out with the ONE item i went in for
i would say that that amount is typical for me, but for the goldfish i go to the pet shop, and spend hardley anything at all.......thank god i dont have a dog!!!!

shelagh xxx



hmmmm maybe i should make a budget?

 

[OohFeeshy]

I don't pay for the main food I use (prawns)- since I use them for cooking too I can get away with getting mumsy to buy them. Saturday I bought a big thing of catfish pellets which was about £10, which will last a fair while. And I won a 'years supply' of fish food, so I've still got a couple of tubs of flake/small pellets.

 

[SJ2K]

Its not like emmsy to start random topics You should come into the chat some time and save forum space haha.

I only buy small ammounts, if i were to get as much as some people here seem to id buy in bulk.

 

[CFC]

I spend an average of about £16 a week on fish food.

Weekly I buy three 150g bags of prawns, a courgette and a head of rommaine lettuce from the supermarket.

Once every two weeks i buy a fivers worth of live shrimp and a blister pack of frozen mysis shrimp from the LFS

Once a month i buy two 500g bags of whitebait and a 500g bag of mussels from the fish mongers and a bag of economy white fish fillets from the supermarket.

Once every two months or so i buy a 500g block of bloodworm and big tubs of catfish pellets and flake.

 

[cane76]

about £50 a month i spend