how much money ?

[55G FreshWater]

How much money has it taken you to set up your aquarium or aquariums,
Just woundering right now.  

[55G FreshWater]

Running my three aquariums has rooled up the bank for me, but i think it is ok. i belive i am 300 + for that reason.  

[Fable Fae]

I'm still a beginner who has been keeping fish for about a year, so I haven't put that much money into my set ups.

Apart from the price of my 55gal setup ($145) and my 29gal ($99), I have only spent around $50-60 for my ornaments, gravel, plants, plant food, fish food, etc over the past year.

I have spent next to no money at all on the actual fish, since I am only keeping goldfish and guppies at the moment (real cheap ones XD). The three goldfish I have now came from Walmart. The ones I bought from Petco died. (One from an attack from a Pleco while they were fighting over an algae chip.. The goldfish wouldn't let the poor thing eat ever. We eventually found a new home for that guy. ninja And the second death was a culling after her swimbladder totally stopped functioning.)

My millions of guppies came absolutely free after their late mother/grandmother, who only cost around a buck to begin with. I guess that's the good thing about livebearers. You can just buy one or two and pretty soon they will stock your aquarium for you. xd (Of course I guess it could eventually become a problem.. TwT;;;; )

So that just barely comes to $300, I suppose.

I'm planning on fully planting one of my tanks (not sure which one yet), so that will probably set me back quite a bit after I buy the lights, plants, substrate, etc... That will have to wait a while though. I'll need to get my little algea problem under control first. I guess I shouldn't have removed that background picture from my tank, now the light from the window can reach it.. u__U;; Meh.. I see many-a-water change in my near future.  

[Pyfe]

I'm very, very cheap. I didn't buy my first big tank (30 gallon. <3) until I found one at a garage sale a couple months ago for $40. It had the filter, gravel, light fixture and fluorescent bulb, a nice wooden stand, and a couple air pumps. It was sex. gonk heart It was the bargain dreams are made of.

As for stocking my aquarium, I buy a single female livebearer and let her spread sweet youth across the tank. Then I resell her and use the money to buy brine shrimp eggs to raise the little stinkers.

My new local fish store will actually pay me for the fish I raise. That is also sex. gonk heart

My two tanks are full of lush plant life, but it all originated from a single strand of java moss that fell into the bag my first betta came in... That was three years ago.

So, aside from buying live/frozen food, I am the cheapest fish owner you know. xd  

[Kansai_Gal]

Let's just say that my "free" 125 gallon tank required a $90 pump, has a $110 power head, over $300 worth of decorations and let's not get into gravel. ... This really depressed me.  

[BluDragon35]

Let's see....free tank (2), $120 stand (1), $80 stand (1), $100 filter (1), free filter (1), $20 heater (2), Substrate for both tanks about $80, rocks and logs and decorations....I'd say roughly $50. So sum total? About $450 - $500 for both my tanks. 4laugh
And I havn't even added in the fishies. xp  

[Egotistical Moose]

$700 tank and oak stand with built in wet / dry bio filter, $80 substrate, $250 in live rock, $20 salt, $40 supplements, two $40 lionfishes (the first one died because he wouldn't take frozen food -- we fed him live thrice but he was never really happy) $30 in an anemone crab and 4 hermits, $20 in snails, $20 coral beauty, $30 snowflake eel, $20 in silversides, $15 flame scallop, $20 anenome, $20 in random essentials, $50 lights.
@@; I can't imagine the cost in the next year or so, when the damn thing REALLY starts up.

 

[kage kitsune usagi]

currently about $300 on my 20-gal long setup... just wait till i get my 37-gal... and im gonna start a salt water..  

[Pisty]

I got my 24 UK G for £10...and I got a massive filter for free. I got my fish free, too. My gravel cost me £30 and the plants and water safe cost £15...then I got buckets and meds and things and they cost about £30. Got a siphon and stuff free as well.

So with all that for free, it still cost me at least £85.

I've just had to buy a filter because it broke...but it cost £20 instead of £50 because someone had opened the box. o_O;

And I've had to buy more fishy friends...just because...so that cost another £20 and I've bought more plants, a better mat for under it and loads of books to refresh my memory.

So I think, now, it's more like £200.  

[Pantodon]

I don't know hom much I have spendt in my life, but I did buy five pelvciachromis taeniatus on friday for 170 bucks.