Electricity
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TheFlyingTang
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IMHO if you can't afford the electricity, you can't afford to properly care for livestock.
Spoken like a true power company official. Alas, I'm afraid you'll find the electricity involved in keeping a tank can be considerable. Using lights that can illuminate a ball park and having pumps that gobble up watts, a reef can consume many a kilowatt. Of course by keeping a FO or using mainly soft corals you can save but is nothing like keeping a freshwater tank.
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James77
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About .15 per hour. Don't go by the 200 figure- I own a multi-family house and pay for multiple furnaces and lights. My actual tank uses about 100-125/month. All my combined pumps are less than 200 watts, my lights are about 1400 watts, and 700 watts of heating.
You might not need a chiller, you can get alot of cooling from a fan across the sump.
James
You might not need a chiller, you can get alot of cooling from a fan across the sump.
James
I use a simple formula of a penny a day per gallon for most reef tanks. When my 130 when down my electric dropped about $40 per month. Current electric around here is about 11Ã"šÃ‚¢ per kilowatt hour. The electric calculator that was mentioned above does a pretty fair job of estimating costs. It is a must use devise for real large tanks where electrical usage can outstrip the household electrical service's ability to maintain the tank. Tis a really bummer to set up that 250 and flip it on only for your whole house to wink out. 
The larger the reef the more the cost??? My power bill increased by about 250.00 to 275.00 per month. Total bill run between 350.00 and 400.00 a month. That's with our house on gas for the hot water and heat. Those run an additional 100.00 to 125.00 per month. Not including over 1,000.00 to up grade the electrical panel to handle the increase power compsumtion. It a good idea to consider all your costs up front. Some people buy the tank fill it with water, and than wonder why so much can go wrong.....
Here's to reefing... The only thing more expensive than my wife.
Here's to reefing... The only thing more expensive than my wife.
True, true Rick--It is really bad when when the local nuke plant goes into meltdown.
mikeadams1985
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you should all just hook up to my electricity here in my work shop, the meter hasnt ticked over in a year.
So according to manweb(power supplier) we aint using electricity - haha
So according to manweb(power supplier) we aint using electricity - haha
beaniebeagle
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just take a look at your electric bill. divide the total bill (not only just what the electricity costs, but the taxes added on) by the kilowatthours (1000 watt-hours)
currently my cost (currently i say) is only about 7 cents per kWh
so basically a one hundred watt light bulb on 10 hours a day for 30 days---->$2.10 (100watts x 10 hours=1000 watt-hours which equals one kWh) so for 30 days --> 30 kWh
500 watts --->$10.50
1000watts---> you get the idea ($21.00)
so all the kWh's of the equipment,lights etc will have to be added together
it isnt gonna break your bank account if you can afford just to buy the equipment and the livestock
feel sorry guy in texas--->0.18 per kWh ouch
currently my cost (currently i say) is only about 7 cents per kWh
so basically a one hundred watt light bulb on 10 hours a day for 30 days---->$2.10 (100watts x 10 hours=1000 watt-hours which equals one kWh) so for 30 days --> 30 kWh
500 watts --->$10.50
1000watts---> you get the idea ($21.00)
so all the kWh's of the equipment,lights etc will have to be added together
it isnt gonna break your bank account if you can afford just to buy the equipment and the livestock
feel sorry guy in texas--->0.18 per kWh ouch
