current state:
I have started down the road to my first aquarium of any kind.
Starting out with a saltwater tank is jumping into the deep end but this is what my heart beets for ever since first snorkling a reef at the age of 11.
My plan was to do this on the cheap despite all of the warnings from everyone that this hobby is the same as lighting money on fire.
Here is a running tally of my costs so far. I have decided to not include electricity and stuff i can definitely use if i quit (such as power strips).
Costs are in SEK which is about 9.5 SEK per USD right now.
Main tank
QT
Livestock
Food
Consumables
Cost for the main tank right now (without an actual tank!!): 18941 SEK
QT: 3711 SEK
Livestock: 4290 SEK
Food: 2077 SEK
Consumables: 5386 SEK
Total: 34405 SEK or 3626 USD
I have started down the road to my first aquarium of any kind.
Starting out with a saltwater tank is jumping into the deep end but this is what my heart beets for ever since first snorkling a reef at the age of 11.
My plan was to do this on the cheap despite all of the warnings from everyone that this hobby is the same as lighting money on fire.
Here is a running tally of my costs so far. I have decided to not include electricity and stuff i can definitely use if i quit (such as power strips).
Costs are in SEK which is about 9.5 SEK per USD right now.
Main tank
Light | 5770 |
Fuge light | 500 |
Return pump | 200 |
powerhead | 200 |
heater | 75 |
Gravel vac | 0 |
rock | 600 |
rodi | 1000 |
Di resin cartridge | 600 |
heater controller | 400 |
Salinity test | 1099 |
Flipper | 400 |
sand | 600 |
2 75l buckets | 440 |
lid | 610 |
rodi stuff | 600 |
Fan | 300 |
more glue | 1250 |
Epoxy | 440 |
Filter bagx2 | 120 |
Turkey baster | 120 |
Bonecutter | 350 |
Egg crate | 200 |
Ato tunze | 1850 |
Ato container | 163 |
Feeding clip | 55 |
Feeding pipette | 40 |
Microfiber cloth | 50 |
Glass cleaner cloth | 100 |
Hose | 264 |
Clamps | 150 |
Auto feeder | 395 |
Claw | 0 |
QT
40l bucket + lid | 107 |
40l bucket + lid | 107 |
medicine | 163 |
quarantine tank inverts | 250 |
qt heater x3 | 75 |
qt filter invert | 299 |
qt powerhead x2 | 400 |
Slw-10 jebao | 800 |
scraper qt invert | 123 |
disposable air stones | 20 |
air pump | 300 |
air pump hose | 36 |
Coral dip | 200 |
QT Light | 500 |
PVC | 48 |
Coral dip buckets | 15 |
hydrogen peroxide bath bucket | 5 |
gloves | 100 |
Gravel vac | 0 |
measuring cups | 15 |
Spawning box | 89 |
Net cage | 59 |
Livestock
emerald crab | 250 |
conch | 195 |
trochus snails | 150 |
nassarius snails | 150 |
red/blue hermit crabs | 150 |
Cleaner shrimp | 245 |
Cerith snails | 150 |
Live rock | 100 |
Rhodactis x3 | 600 |
Candy cane x3 | 400 |
Paraancora Euphyllia | 200 |
Frogspawn Euphyllia | 250 |
Gonipora | 200 |
GSP | 50 |
Sarchophyton | 100 |
Clavularia x2 | 450 |
Zoas x2 | 400 |
Peppermint shrimp | 250 |
Food
Food | 577 |
Mysis freeze dried 1kg | 800 |
Clams | 50 |
Octopus | 100 |
Reef energy | 450 |
Nori sheet | 100 |
Consumables
salt | 999 |
activated carbon | 40 |
Di resin | 400 |
Amonium test kit | 250 |
Alk test kit | 105 |
Ph test kit | 89 |
Nitrate test hanna hr | 1000 |
phosphate test | 1000 |
starter bacteria + amoniak | 134 |
AF life source | 250 |
Fosfor remover | 159 |
Magnesium test kit | 165 |
Bicarbonate | 165 |
Magnesium | 0 |
Calcium | 0 |
Citric acid | 350 |
Velcro bands | 100 |
Cable clips | 100 |
Filter floss | 80 |
Cost for the main tank right now (without an actual tank!!): 18941 SEK
QT: 3711 SEK
Livestock: 4290 SEK
Food: 2077 SEK
Consumables: 5386 SEK
Total: 34405 SEK or 3626 USD
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