SAY WHAT?????? HOW MUCH I$ YOUR WHOLE SETUP WORTH?

[Utubereefer]

When my wife gets going she says I have 10k in the fish room… let’s just stick with that number

 

[BVF]

The older I get the more of a loose hold I have on money and material possessions. It's just money. You should see how much I spend oo bonsai trees. Not saying I'm idiotic with my money, but if I get enjoyment out of what I'm buying it's worth it to me.

Enjoy life responsibly. You only get one chance on this planet.

Bonsai is my “main” hobby…which I thought was expensive when I wandered into this rabbit hole! Corals selling for the price of a Tofukuji pot is crazy to me. At least I won’t kill a pot!

 

[Wyvern]

Used Tank- 109 Bow Acrylic $400 with stand, needed to cut and weld new metal I did myself for $100 so say $500.

Sump new Bashsea $400
Plumbing $70

Pump- used $40
Ti Heater $70
Aquamaxx RC2 $300
GKM- Free
Ozone machine with ORP probe- open box $200
Popbloom 90 X2 $330
Rock- on sale 1/2 price $160
Sand- on sale 1/2 price $40
Gyre wave maker $90
Ro-di on sale $50

Equipment Total $2250

Livestock including frags $700

Grand total $2950

 

[lakai]

Grand total = too much

 

[AbdominalSnowman]

When people ask, I just say it’s a nice new car in my loving room

 

[ZoWhat]

Define "worth"

In realistic terms your tanks equipment is only worth about 10-20% of what you paid at a retail price. fish and coral about 75-100% of what you paid.

I love Craigslist sellers trying to impress me saying they spent $5k on their setup but then realize it's worth about $500 as USED EQUIPMENT

 

[Glenner’sreef]

When my wife gets going she says I have 10k in the fish room… let’s just stick with that number

Laughing!!!! Thx!

 

[Glenner’sreef]

When people ask, I just say it’s a nice new car in my loving room

Noticed you put “nice” in there!!! Congrats.

 

[Billldg]

What its worth, no clue. What I spent on it so far, between $20,000 to $25.000.

 

[kstaley12]

Not sure of current tally, and it’s still early days. According to my husband l have no money, which would be directly related to my tank.

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

If someone said I want to buy your whole 650g system and coral I’d say $100k, I Easy have $30-35k in equipment and about $50k in high end coral. I had about $8-$10k for the original grow out system already bought before I decided to increase it and make it my crazy 650g system, so I took the $20k I made from my first fund the build sale selling frags from my vast high end collection on here and used it to buy equipment and still didn’t cover it…

 

[jgirardnrg]

 

[GHOSTLY]

Well the tank, light, and dry gear cost 900 then I bought lots of high end corals so I'd say for a 13g tank 4000.

 

[G Santana]

Well let's see, I saved money on my tank because I bought it 33 yrs ago, I had an old skimmer and a sump soooo I saved alot. But then I bought new equipment and well we have corals adjusted for inflation and what the market will bare OMG I'm BROKE.

Even with all the stuff I had from many years ago and I only have 5 fish in my tank and about 30 frags, I'm at about 3K in under 12 months for everything and I'm just beginning.
Imagine if I had to buy a tank, sump and skimmer as well

 

[MikesMach1]

Lol ,don't want to know

 

[Reefing102]

Worth to me: Priceless
Purchase Price: Just shy of $4k
MSRP closer to $10k (got a lot of higher priced equipment included in my original purchase of the tank used

 

[MnFish1]

So I think I could replace everything for about $ 9000.00

WOW!!! That crazy, I’ve never done that before.
WHAT SAY YOU? ;Greedy

HM. - lets say a colony costs 500 - a very non- special one - and a tank - 5000 - lighting - 1500 etc -The time value is whats worth the most money - the fish the coral feeding, growing IMHO.

BTW - it depends on the size of the tank. I would say - more - if it all of the sudden broke today

 

[jhuntstl]

$280 on equipment and $75 on livestock. What's crazy is you could add a zero to those numbers and that's what a lot of the suckers around here would spend on an SPS nano...

Spend your money however you like.

 

[SinkorSwim9319]

The cost of your tank is whatever you told your wife it cost!! Stick with that number!

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Define "worth"

In realistic terms your tanks equipment is only worth about 10-20% of what you paid at a retail price. fish and coral about 75-100% of what you paid.

I love Craigslist sellers trying to impress me saying they spent $5k on their setup but then realize it's worth about $500 as USED EQUIPMENT

So I’ll define worth. What is your tank’s “worth” if you had to replace everything you presently have. At today’s prices.