How much did you guys spend on your first tank?

[PotatoPig]

First tank, shopping the sales:
75 gallon: $120
20 gallon sump: $30
Baffles: $30
Overflow: $180
Return pump: $80
Heaters: $150
Tubing: $40
Power heads: $60
Filter sock holder for sump: $80
Aragonite Sand: $40
Various dry/seeded rocks: $200 ish
Glass panels on top instead of canopy: $40
Skimmer: $160
About to add lights: $330
RODI: $150

So about $1700 ish on the tank + RODI, spread over about a year (quickly adding up in my head so could be off)

All in about $22/gallon, which I understand is definitely at the lower end.

Albeit ignoring test kits, salt, Refractometer etc. probably closer to $25/gallon including those.

 

[JoJosReef]

So I have got my first tank yet but I am planning on getting a 15 gallon innovative marine cube tank and am planning on spending about $445+fish on the tank total. I wondering how much other people spent on their first tank?

Someone's significant other make a phantom R2R acct?

 

[jpnegrete14]

55gal rimmed glass tank in 2005. Couldn't tell you the exact number but I was 15 so it wasn't much. The whole setup with livestock was probably less then what I spend on a single light nowadays

 

[shadow_k]

Tank and stand were 350$ light was 250$ I could list the equipment but let’s say I spent about 1500 on equipment alone lol

 

[MDAquatics]

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

Less than 200$ to start on a 25g tank, hob, heater, sand, some branch rock, crummy incandescent bulbs for the canopy and a pair of evil damsels.

Also that was 25 years ago.

 

[vabben]

My first tank was a Waterbox 20-gallon AIO. I spent well over $1,500 on it. Ecotech MP10, XR15, rocks, sand, tank, stand, RODI, mixing station, salt, and pre-QT fish. In my current tank I probably have that amount just in fish...

 

[fish farmer]

$750 to 1000 early 2000s. Lots of diy, but the halide got it done.

 

[Liam's tank]

When I told my wife I wanted to set up a fish tank with our grandson so we could share a hobby I’ve enjoyed my entire life. She said “okay but I know you, don’t go crazy”. Yeah, we’ll just leave it at that

 

[PizzaIan339]

Someone's significant other make a phantom R2R acct?

Nooooooooo you blew my cover!

 

[lil sumpin]

just getting back into this after over a decade.. but remembering working weeks on end back in high school saving to set up my 20 long with used T5s, live rock and sand that my biology teacher donated to me, HOB equipment I had from freshwater setups years past… with livestock and all I think that set up amounted to around $200-300 after a few months.

My current build is easily 3x that

 

[Daniel@R2R]

My very first tank was a 29g tank I found on Craigslist for $20.

 

[nickm]

About $1k on a 40 breeder setup. But what I consider my 1st official setup will be $10-15k. It’s a 260g setup.

 

[Propane]

A little over a thousand. 15g IM

 

[Mark Gray]

My father bought the tank so free. I worked for the rest it was a 30 gallon long, in the 70s

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[leon.1980]

2 years in im probably about 8k in on my Red Sea sea reefer 425xl. Lol. Yes my wife knows how much I spend. No my wife is not threatened. Lol.

 

[Reefer Reboot]

Zero. A neighbor owned a LFS and had a garage full of aquariums. He gave me one when I was a kid. (1960 something)

 

[KrisReef]

When I told my wife I wanted to set up a fish tank with our grandson so we could share a hobby I’ve enjoyed my entire life. She said “okay but I know you, don’t go crazy”. Yeah, we’ll just leave it at that

I'm in the same boat right now. Here is my suggestion:
Tank for a Grandson- Link!

He could learn to swim there too!

 

[PizzaIan339]

Bump!