How Much Do You Spend

[cane76]

at the moment in one week im spending £10 on river shrimp £12 on 5 packets of frozen bloodworm £5 on a bag of mussles and £8 on earthworms.i almost spend as much on food for the fish as i do for the kids

 

[CFC]

I spend roughly £40 a month on fish food, some things like bloodworm in a 1/2 kilo slab and kilo bags of mussels cockles and sprats i buy monthly, other stuff like whitebait, prawns and live shrimp i buy weekly so the weekly ammount varies as to what needs replacing when.

Why are you buying little packs of bloodworm? I presume you use Ashford aquatics in Vermulens garden center sometimes? Just ask behind the counter for the 1/2 kilo or 1 kilo packs of bloodworm, 1/2 a kilo is £6.50 i think and a kilo is about £12, i preffer the 1/2 kilo packs as they can be snapped easily where as the kilo ones need beating with a hammer and that can get messy.

 

[cane76]

ive never been to that lfs and i didnt know you could buy them in slabs.i only recently started getting them coz of my little motoro i dont usually bother none of my fish eat them.thanks for the heads up

 

[KeeperOfFishyPeace]

i've spent a total of $10 CAD (4-5 pounds) in a span of four monthes. little tank, little bit of food

 

[xJake]

I've spent $20 in the last week on bloodworms, tubifex worms, daphnia, algae wafers, and goldfish food for a rescue goldfish I recently acquired that was being kept in a 2.5gal tank, but that food will last me a couple months.

 

[callum_parsons]

luckly for me kribensis sell well in the area so i can pass them on to them and exchange for foods so it saves me a bit but still paying about £5.00 a week for frozon food that is a lot when u r starting up your marine tank and back on a job hunt.

 

[Gazoo]

I spend peanuts per week compard to my other new hobby: RC flying.

 

[SPLiSH]

Luckily I only have two bettas and an apple snail... so probably less than $1 per week. Tubs of betta pellets last for years - literally. But when I get a job I shall be able to buy more tanks and fish, then I will spend more on food.

 

[dwarfgourami]

Mine don't eat much, and a lot of it is waste from the kitchen- that little bit of lettuce the kids didn't want, a couple of extra peas when we were having peas with our chops. About a pound a week I reckon, including the bloodworm etc.

 

[andywg]

Not a lot.

I buy bloodworm by the kilo (part of me enjoys the hitting it with a hammer) and about once every month I replace either a pot of floating pellets or sinking pellets.

Add to that a small pack of marine mix every 2.5 to 3 months, and I now purchase sprats and muscles from the fish sheds.

Buying seafood from lfs is so much more expensive than from the people who catch them.

 

[CFC]

Yeah never buy frozen sea foods from the lfs, they usually charge twice as much for half the ammount and the quality is rubbish. I buy all my fish food apart from the bloodworm and live shrimp from the fish mongers or the super market.