Cost for Your FW Setup

[SNAKEMANVET]

120 gallon,Just starting
tank stand canopy- $750.00
Tek lighting fixture- $400.00
40 gallon sump- $75.00
4000hh return pump-$50.00

 

[jasurf21]

This has been the cost of my 30g gallon set up

$40 (Craigslist - all like new)
30g Tank
Black cabinet
Filter
Hood
Light
$4 Aquarium safe cleaner
$25 twenty pound bag of black Carib'Sea Instant Aquarium substrate
$28 for 100 watt heater
$35 two skull mountain decorations
$8 two colorful Biorb fake plants
$6 two cabomba plants
$6 three month supply of filters
$12 two blue ram cichlids
$13 two balloon molly's, baby balloon molly, three oto's, peppered cory cat
and we already had a school of tetra's
$17 two 2.5 gallon buckets and clear tubing from home depot forwater changes
$13 water test kit


Total $207

What I'd like to add - after my additions total would be $273

$30 School of Glofish
$30 One more decoration
$6 Two more cabomba plants

 

[mfdrookie516]

Ok... so before I posted on here, I bragged about how cheap I had gotten by with my 150g. Here's my 40 breeder...

40 breeder with stand and glass canopy- new- $325
50lbs of PFS- $10
200w Heater- $35
2x39w T5HO- $129
5lb Co2 Cylinder- $60
Regulator- $90
DIY Co2 Reactor- $25... but that included glue and cleaner and an extra 1' of pipe for use on another reactor.
Drop Checker- $15
4DkH Reference Solution- $10
Eheim Canister- already had but traded a $150 wet/dry filter for it
2 timers- $15
GFCI Power Strip- $15

Total- $879

Now, my 125g in the works... this is so far.

Tank/stand from CL- $200
2 4x24w T5HO with hanging kits- $250
Dual Co2 Manifold to split Co2- $20
300w Titanium Heater w/ Controller- $50
Rena XP3- $150
2 bags of Miracle Gro Organic Potting Soil- $20
50' of Co2 tubing- $25
2 bags of PFS- $20
Drop Checker- $15

Total so far- $750

That's almost $1600 in just 3 weeks on two tanks!!!!!! Oh, and that doesn't include fish or plants!

 

[Crepe]

Uh...my 20 gallon cost...maybe 400 dollars?

 

[itsgracia]

Lets see...i will list what I can remeber...

29 gallon kit (walmart) = $102
Stand = $75
AC 70 = $40
Air pump bubble bar = $20
Heaters (2) = $60
Gravel = $15 i think
Decorations (I dont have anymore) = $40
Driftwoods (2) = $24
Python = $50
Test kit = $25
Different cleaners (algae scrubber etc) = $30
Food/Water Conditioners = $40
Fishes = around $60
Ick Attack =$17
Aquarium Salt (for curing ich) = $12
Various items (due to bad advice and unnecesary) = tons

That's all I can think of right now. Lets just say I have earned way more points than I need to get a 15% off from Petco.

 

[Tim Wheatley]

75 gallon:
Tank $99
Glass lids $40
T5 HO lights $65
Night time LEDs $35
Filters before FX5 (which all broke or became noisy): $100, Fluval FX5 $230
Substrate $9
Plants $4
Fish were all trades except a few Silver Dollars.
Stand $140
APC Battery backup for powercuts/brownouts: $115

Really not that much... I also have a few things on my tanks (like battery backups, LEDs and big filters like FX5s) that aren't a requirement, just a nice to have.

 

[NODAK1979]

60 gallon freshwater

Tank + stand = 250 on sale.
Filter = 140
Heater = 40
Python = 20
Decorations (incl driftwood) = 200
Fish = 500 or so.
Air pump/stones = 50

1200 dollars or so thus far. Depressing.

And yes, 500 dollars for fish. Discus, GBR's, Boesmani's, Sterbai cory cats and an expensive pleco.

 

[Tim Wheatley]

I was looking at some interesting plecos last night, what do you have?

Some of them look truly awesome but I don't think I could bear to spend the prices they were asking...

 

[NODAK1979]

I was looking at some interesting plecos last night, what do you have?

Some of them look truly awesome but I don't think I could bear to spend the prices they were asking...

Ours is a leopard cactus, also called a "red tail sternella", I believe. He's awesome but he hides almost 100 percent of the time. I can't wait for him to grow so he doesn't have such an easy time.

We wanted a golden nugget but they were even more expensive.

 

[fibreheart]

Ok I have never spent this much on an aquarium and I cannot believe that my hubby(who hates fish) spent the money for me But here it goes:

Tank/stand/canopy 500.00
70lbs of sand 70.00
LED bubble wands x3 100.00
LED Moon light(Sits on canopy has day/moon lights) 80.00
36" bubble snake 20.00
rock decor 300.00
Filstar canister XP3 300.00
Tetra Deep water Pump 70.00
Fluval 300w Digital Heater 80.00
Light timer 80.00
Prime 10.00
Stability 15.00
Food 50.00
hoses 10.00
gravel vac 80.00
bucket 10.00
net 1.00
for a total SO FAR of :1806.00 CAD
My hubby got his taxes and went shopping

My fish list for this tank will be 300.00 at least

 

[NODAK1979]

Ok I have never spent this much on an aquarium and I cannot believe that my hubby(who hates fish) spent the money for me But here it goes:

Tank/stand/canopy 500.00
70lbs of sand 70.00
LED bubble wands x3 100.00
LED Moon light(Sits on canopy has day/moon lights) 80.00
36" bubble snake 20.00
rock decor 300.00
Filstar canister XP3 300.00
Tetra Deep water Pump 70.00
Fluval 300w Digital Heater 80.00
Light timer 80.00
Prime 10.00
Stability 15.00
Food 50.00
hoses 10.00
gravel vac 80.00
bucket 10.00
net 1.00
for a total SO FAR of :1806.00 CAD
My hubby got his taxes and went shopping

My fish list for this tank will be 300.00 at least

You spent 300.00 on a XP3?? I realize it's CDN dollars, but we spent 140 USD on that. Wow. Things really that much more expensive up there?? 70.00 for 70 pounds of sand?? 80.00 for a gravel vac??

 

[fibreheart]

Oh Yeah! We Canucks don't get off too easy when it comes to niche markets. My LFS is the only one in my area and they know it There are other pet stores around but they know nothing about fish really. So I have to go to the special store to get answers and reliable product

 

[mfdrookie516]

Yeah seriously, that's a bit extreme. You have got to start ordering online!

 

[fibreheart]

I would love to but the shipping costs put it to about the same anyways We canadians don't have any good resources for online aquaria and I don't really like using ebay or craiglist. Online was my first stop and for the things I wanted/needed it was too much to get it to me.

 

[straick]

I honestly don't think about the price. I knew it wouldn't be cheap when I went to buy my first batch of stuff, but I'm thinking about is how my little fishy friends will be happy once the tank is ready for them.

 

[WhiteWidow11]

In one day of craigslist heaven, I got:

55g tank, two 75 gallons, one pre drilled with overflow, and a 55g converted to a sump and two stands for a 75g!

Also gave me a 4 bulb 48" fixture for free and all 4 bulbs still worked!

All for free! This is of couse after a month or so of finding nothing all of a sudden BAM everyone posted a free tank lol.

I decided to setup the 55, use the light as my top, all I did was purchase:

Heater - 35$ 150w
Filter - $40 - Penguin 350 dual bio-wheel
Powerhead - $40

Chemicals, Food, Water Test Kit (liquid, not dipstick) and few random things expect about another $200

So it cost me about 300 ish even with free tanks!

 

[kenny69]

I'll play:

5ft 100 gal (375 ltr) aquaone brand (aquagrande) aquarium, includes in hood wet/dry trickle filter, Plus stand: $1500 aus
3D rock back drop $250
Substrate: coral sand/crushed coral, $90
Awesome looking homemade rocks: $150
Chemicals, test kits, cichlid salts, food, etc etc etc $200-300.
3000 l/h power head for circulation, $120
14 cichlids (so far) $20 each.

Total $2690
Thats not including, buckets, hoses, grav vac, and various other gear I already had. Australia is expensive, don't care what spin you put in it lol. All worth it though.

 

[Kat1103]

55 gallon tank with hood, LED lights, bio wheel filter and heater: $159 on sale at petsmart. I couldn't pass up this deal!
gravel & rocks approx. was $25.
Plants were $12.

 

[roydooms]

125g tank + stand + canopy: $400 used.
Penguin 350s: $80
FX5 + media: $300
Substrate: $75
Driftwood: $100
Plants: $100+
Lights: $80 used (great deal!)
LED lights: $20
Fish: $600+
Ferts: $50/month
Accessories(nets,bucket, containers, etc): $100
Heater: $60
timers: $25
Water pump: $60
Air pump: $25
Python: $40

The smile on your face: Priceless

For everything else there's MasterCard

 

[beepboop]

10 gallon tank: $12
glass top: $8
light: $20
canister filter, eheim 2211: $50
3d internal background: $20
gravel sand mix: $10
air pump: $10
food: $3
driftwood: $12
plastic plants: $30 (with left over plants).
water testing kits: $30
Gravel vaccuum, high quality: $16
Chemi-pure elite: $12 (lasts 6 months)

No stand. It's sitting on a dresser.
I actually spent a lot more and did a lot of experimenting with this tank, this is just the stuff I ended up using in my final design.