LOL I spent 2 months of summer and (the last month im going to football practice), working in the sun for 9 hours a day just so I could pay for all this stuff. Hey the tank and stand was used for 250 but when you add stuff like my 150 dollar filter, and that 50 dollar peice of driftwood with shipping, and all the plants and fish and food and chemicals , lights, blah blah, it ends up being a 600 dollar envestment!