The Cost of a tank by Bloomberg.com

[jdino]

Guess they never heard of MR and the great deals people make on this site. Funny to look though.



http://www.bloomberg.com/consumer-spending/2012-08-20/the-real-cost-of-a-saltwater-aquarium.html

 

[thirty5]

Interesting. But see where they base their prices on??? Absolutely Fish so you know that you can cut most prices in half LOL

 

[Cibo]

I guess that is the high end of everything and does not take into consideration picking up some stuff from members here in the marketplace and all the great free info from all the members on MR!!

 

[beerfish]

Wow... Now I understand why NYC doesn't have a balanced budget.

 

[NL146]

Interesting lol! I just read a couple of pages.
Page 2 - Before You Start: "overload with ... live rock" - how much live rock is too much? Plus he forgot to mention manhattanreefs.com.

Page 4 - Live Rock: "Live rock begins as skeletal remains of sea coral, which over time become filled with tiny microscopic plants and animals, becomming "living rock"" - uh, what about real rock?

Page 7 - The Sun and the Moon: "Fish ... need LED lights that can mimic the shimmer of sun" (take that team t5 lol). After all, you don't want your fish going crazy!

Page 9 - Coral: $125 Pulsing Xenia (go xenia!)

 

[BaaMNYC]

Lol $125 for pulsing Xenia. Can I sell mine for half of that? I'll take a quarter of that !

$350 for technician to install your ro/di? Really?

 

[ixTCxi]

Lol $125 for pulsing Xenia. Can I sell mine for half of that? I'll take a quarter of that !

I actually got mine for free on MR :splitspin I love MR.

 

[BaaMNYC]

I actually got mine for free on MA :splitspin I love MA.

I got some for free at aquarium village lol.

 

[Awibrandy]

wow... Now i understand why nyc doesn't have a balanced budget.

focroflmao​

 

[Mercury]

wow... Now i understand why nyc doesn't have a balanced budget.

+1!

 

[beerfish]

Over a period of six weeks, add:

Blue Linckia Starfish
Red Fromia Starfish
Red Crinoid (Feather Star)

Really? I would love to see a six month old tank housing those starfish for more than a week before they die.

Who wrote this article? Have they ever even kept a betta fish?

 

[duke62]

those prices arent even close to what actual prices are. 785 dollars for one mp40. i really want to know how they researched for this article

 

[Reef Fixations]

I think he'd lose tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars just to save a couple of thousand dollars on fishtanks. He plays with crazy amounts of money where $17K for a fishtank is money he's made back seconds after spending it. Considering the kind of money that he plays with, if he dedicated any amount of time to try to save $10K on a fish tank, he would have lost $1million. Maybe my numbers are a little off but it's probably mostly true.

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

I know the bloomberg building actually has a bunch of tanks in it. I had a buddy who was doing windows in there and he told me there was several.

 

[ecvernon]

wow this seems like cost of hiring a company to maintain a tank in a professional setting. definitely not the cost on a hobbyist tank

i think i am missing these from my clean up crew. lol
$50: Blue Linckia Starfish
$50: Red Fromia Starfish
$120: Red Crinoid (Feather Star)

 

[MatthewScars]

$125: Pulsing Xenia

That is the best one. I like the name dropping of RC and Acan lighting.

MR was probably down when the author was looking for sources. Figures!

 

[Imbarrie]

They need a technician to mix water so this maybe a tank for someone who is not that bright.

 

[ECFENCING]

Final Tally

The Real Cost of Saltwater Aquarium for a 90 gallon: $17,334

Insane: and that's just a regular run of the mill 90 gallon. You could buy an elos system 120 same size + lights , rock, 2 vortechs and some coral for about 1/3 the cost new or 1/6 the cost used if you could find one

 

[solo]

That article was hillarity. They hire Manhattan Aquariums to do the whole job for way less then that, and probably maintain it for that for the entire year.

 

[Imbarrie]

This guy was obviously a customer of Aquarium Adventure before they went out of business.