Monthly Cost Of A Tropical Tank?

[llaannccee]

Hi i am thinking about buying a Fluval Roma 125 but i have no idea of the monthly cost.

If i stocked the tank full. What could i expect to spend on fish food?

How often would i have to replace the filter pads?

Any other costs apart from electricity and water?


Thanks.

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

That's a really difficult question to answer. Fish keeping is expensive when you are just starting out but after everything is up and running it's not bad.

Don't even factor in replacing things like filter pads because you won't need to, they last for yonks and cost nothing to replace.

Food...well it all depends on what fish you have and what you're feeding but over the period of a month you're talking a really low amount to feed the mouths that can fit in a 125L.

I have no idea how to advise you on what the water and electricity costs are. But for water I don't imagine it's more than having someone taking a couple of extra showers a month!

 

[BigbruiserAl]

on a 100L tank you wont notice a thing, i cry alot as i have a 20,60,70,220,250,350,800l tanks and am on a water meter

 

[FishBlast]

on a 100L tank you wont notice a thing, i cry alot as i have a 20,60,70,220,250,350,800l tanks and am on a water meter

I'm on a water meter too, but I doubt my daily 10L water changes between January and February could be the reason for the huge ($120) water bill.
Now I'm doing 20L (sometimes 30L) a week and the water bill is still around that mark. I'm suspecting the dish washing to be responsible for the huge water bill, as we have no dishwashing machine, it's all manual. Then there are the frequent showers my dad takes, and mom using water to clean the house...

 

[jojouk]

I worked it out once, and for my 180l tank, it worked out as £66 electricity for the year.

It's all to do with the wattage of the items used, the times that they are used (heater only comes on sporadically through ought the day for example) and your unit cost per hour

 

[Joshwainwright]

For food and what not it's not much at all and then for water and electricity I'm guessing you wouldn't notice either. Put it this way, my parents know when I've been using my Xbox more but never noticed a change in the bill from getting my 125

 

[hilly81]

I have a 180l, 2 70l and a 30l tanks running right now. External filter on the 180. Air pump driven sponge filters on the 70s and internal filter on the 30. All heated, and my electricity usage has at least doubled, sometimes tripled (depending on the temp in the house I think) on a daily basis against when I had no tanks running. My electricity usage was very low before though.

 

[Bazaman]

for food it won't be very much even if you vary their diet you cna usually get fairly decent sized things of food that should last you for several months the biggest cost would be getting everything and cycling the tank after that cost goes down by a lot.

you will want to get a liquid master test kit for your water though so that is another cost.

 

[danele]

I think some people have an addiction!

 

[OldMan47]

Monthly costs are easy to figure but a bit hard to swallow, although I really do not want to know for my own tanks. You have a filter that costs you x watts per hour so use your KW billing method to figure that part. Now look at your heater. In many cases we run our heaters maybe 50% of the time when the room temperature is fairly low compared to the target tank temperature. The rest of the time it is off all of the time. Try using about 50% of the rating as a constant run time value. If you have your lights on a timer, you can very accurately estimate the KW equivalent of that expense. For me that is more than I like to think about and it is far more than most other costs.

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

lol does OP even care!?

 

[Joshwainwright]

lol does OP even care!?

Probably not ahahh...

Btw, I voted for you in TOTM... I think

 

[gforce17]

Since I set my tanks up I've spent so much time on them that I haven't done the hoovering so I think that will balance the electricity bill. Haven't showered for 6 months so less water. it's win win win for me!!