55 gallon Cost

[boisblancboy]

If you are using RO water then i take you might be adding minerals/metals to your mix?

 

[53special]

i have paid all together for a 15gallon nano reef tank and rock everything...

tank = £ 130
test kits = £ 30
sand = £ 15
rock = £ 55
syphon/food/calcium = £ 25
salt 4kg pack = £18
buckets/filter media= £ 10
1 hermit crab = £ 7

HOLY CR*P, that's expensive.

 

[sweeTang21]

If you are using RO water then i take you might be adding minerals/metals to your mix?

RO will probably have nothing in it if its a quality RO unit. Adding supplemented food for corals is about all you will need to worry about. They make a product from KENT that i like to use called Essential Elements (EE) This will take care of replacing what fish will require, but for the most part, i never need to add it.

 

[lferg]

Ok I have been looking at this thread since it started because I am doing the exact same thing.. Well almost. I am keeping my FW tank and just starting new with a FOWLR 55g. I did it today and here is what I did...
55g with stand, filter, heater, hoods and lights - $150 off Craigslist
15 lbs live rock @ 6.00 per lbs - $90
55g worth of Instant Ocean salt - $18.97
4 20lbs bags of live sand @ 18.00 ea - $72.00
6lbs of Lace rock @ 2.00 per lbs - $12.00
Total - $343.97
Minus - $100 for getting all the new stuff at a Pet Land Grand Opening... =
Grand total of 243.97!!!!

 

[Danyal]

return those damsels, they're going to be mean little bastards that are going to terrorize your tank(i see humbug and domino, two of the nastiest damsels there are)

 

[lferg]

Yea they were $1 each and they are really pissed off fish.... @ holes....

 

[Kdcarey]

get a yellow tang theyre cheap n still really pretty