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Old 09/02/2004, 02:12 PM
tonym10 tonym10 is offline
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You really dont want to know my costs. I was figuring all that out the other day. Without the tank and stand my cost is over $5k, for all my pumps, lights ,corals ,fish, rock, sand, test equipment, water making stuff .But that’s also because I wanted to make everything automated. Your initial expense would be lighting , approx. $500.
return pump and skimmer pump $250. sump $50, parts for sump and plumbing parts $300,Sea Swirls $300.Refugium and pump $100.Rock $500 , sand $150. Salt bucket $50. Test stuff $100, Ro/Di unit $150. That’s the basics the rest of things like timers ,litermeters , kalkreactor etc.... just makes life easy, but adds allot of expense. My average Coral cost about $60, some cheaper some allot more.