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I don't think your attacking anyone. I just don't think his coral business is affording a high Ferrari life style...but it could be and if that is the case...I need to buy some frag tanks and quit my current job ;-)Edit: pressed send to early
Apologies. I don’t mean to be attacking anyone here. I’m not disparaging WWC or anything. If people will pay it why the heck not charge it. I would love a Ferrari too.
As for my math I was cooking food so I kinda just guesstimated. But for my 4 bulb agriculture fixtures it costs 175 plus 100 dollars in bulbs to start so 275, I change my bulbs every 18 months so 100 about every 1.5 years. So about 950 dollars for a decade (rounded up assuming everything by is new) For similar wattage and coverage I would want 2 x xr30s, which cost 950 each, so that’s exactly double over 10 years for my given usage on a 4 foot tank. This doesn’t including mounting, driver/ballast replacement, led replacement (as leds at 100 percent power should be changed every five years or so), or energy consumption. So there is a lot more variables. Another factor to consider is I have not seen a single person keep an led fixture for 10+ Years Due to upgrades in the market , vs halide and t5 I’ve seen run for 30+.
again this is a convo that I think derails the thread. But I have run radions g5s, AI 64 and 16HD, black box, homemade leds, halides, and t5’s. And that’s just on personal tanks. Not tanks I have maintained or run for the LFS’s I’ve worked at. And to me Halide looks the best by far, but just has certain restrictions that t5’s don’t have.
at the end of the day this hobby is our personal preference’s. And I just prefer to not pay a premium price for fixture I like less than what is cheaper. I do agree that this hobby has become my way or the high way, and I hate that. There are infinite ways to have a great looking tank. Wether that be with the latest equipment, or used stuff that’s older than I am. It all comes down to what each individual wants.
at the end of the day I am fighting for a hobby that is less price restrictive as I know for a fact it can be. I have seen a lot of the back end pricing and price butchering that happens since over been working in the industry for 4 years. Setting up a tank shouldn’t require +10k dollars to set up, and I want people to have options that work and are cheap. But to find those it seems you have to look outside the hobby. There’s an old joke I’ve heard that you can slap reef on something and charge 3 times what it should be worth. And the more I’m in this hobby the more I know it’s true. I want to do my part to fix that.