How Much Money Have You Spent On Your Fish?

[coolie]

I bought my Juwel 240 on eBay for £100, but I took the drift wood out of it and sold it back on eBay for £30, so I got a third of my money back.
Then I bought a second tank at a car boot sale, kept the heater out of it and a really good test kit which retails for £30 and sold the tank without these bits on eBay for more than I paid for it.
I then bought another small tank at a car boot sale for £10 for breeding.
My plants came as stem cuttings from eBay for just a few pounds, my gravel was horticultural gravel from Homebase £3 a sack,
some more plants came from a local river, although 50% of those didn't make it in the tropical tank.
The two shoals of Tetras were 5 for £6 each shoal.
The expensive outlay has been the easy carbo, that was also from eBay, I still have algae problems. Fertilisers are from work because I work with chemicals.

 

[DreamertK]

Just for my tank, heater, water pump, light, sand...200$

Gourami, flakes, couple of plants...20$

Numerous amounts of plants, bubbler, dechlorinators later...60$? 80$?

 

[#1 Fish Fan]

Probably about £5,000-£10,000! I have just bought 2, 300gal fish tanks that were £1,500 each!

 

[zain611]

About £190, if i get my next tank it would be about £630 or even £700 if i estimate how much sand bags and ornaments i get for it

 

[Scates11]

I have had my tank for less than 30 days, it's 36 U.S. gallons and between my new aqua clear filter and all the other testing and decorating gagits I have well over $600....and I am not even cycled yet

Already addicted is the bigger problem...next years tab may be scary

 

[KCB]

Easily £300 to set up the tank, rescaping it, buying fish etc. It's my most expensive hobby to start up! When I started a mini restoration project it only cost me £150! Half the price of starting a fish tank But definitely well worth it.

 

[Colonials66]

I've been going since October after only just graduating from Uni and heavily overdrawn I've still managed to spend about £700...thought it would be a relatively cheap hobby after getting my first 60l tank for £40

 

[Wills]

Crikey - dont want to think about it tank, heaters, filters and lights probs £1150? Fish, probs not too bad got a few free ones and trades now and some have not been as expensive as might be expected but still probs £5-600 - mind you just spent some money getting a wall knocked through to get my tank into my new house.... and then a second tank will be coming....

Wills

 

[#1 Fish Fan]

I've spent too much!

 

[Mikey1]

more than i could even imagine.....

over 25 years in this....as a rough average estimate i would say i spend $2000-$3000 USD per year, on tanks, equipment, food, fish, etc etc

so i guess that would be about $50,000 - $75,000 over my lifetime

 

[#1 Fish Fan]

Suddenly I feel like I havn't spent enough!

 

[spongy]

I started in July and so far.....,

£250 on tank and cabinet secondhand
£25 heater
£15 gravel
£30 replacement gravel as I didn't like the first lot
£25 replacement heater after I broke the first one
£40+ on plants
£120 filter
£70 upgrade to T5 lighting
£100+ on fish had some losses unfortunately
£30 food
£30 bog wood

And I know there's stuff I've forgotten, I want more tanks as well but I only rent my flat, and space is an issue!!!

If I owned my own place I'd have tanks everywhere!!!!!!

 

[#1 Fish Fan]

I already have 5 tanks, but I still want more!