Electrical costs for a reef tank?

[dukecola]

You also have to consider the amps used by the pumps, heater, chiller, skimmer, in addition to the lights. All in all not too bad unless you have a real big tank or a chiller.

When I had my 200g reef in Texas, in the hot summers the 1/2hp chiller added about $30 a month by itself. The tank was a comfortable 76 degrees but we were sweating our %$^@'s off in the house because the chiller dumped hot exhaust air into the house which in turn caused the house AC to run constantly. Since home AC's only do a 20 degree pull down, when it's 103 degrees outside, the best you can expect is 83 inside. Dump hot chiller exhaust and you get my picture. It added another extra $100 to my electric bill. If I ever have the need for a chiller again, I will locate or vent it outside.

R/Duke

 

[Carpentersreef]

With everything running in the summer months, $80 - $90/ month. My system is 240g with the main tank lighting running with about 1000w.

Mitch

 

[morepunkthanewe]

I was wondering if anyone has sat down to figure out about how much it costs to run their reef tank per month. I'm trying to figure it out for my 90 gallon reef tank with 2 175 watt MH. Just thought I'd see what other people have come up with.

 

[Bodine]

Just find out what your utilty company charges for a kilowatt/hour and plug in into the equation....This May Help!

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[Rich-n-poor]

to tell the truth I have sen no appreciable rise in my electric bill when I swirched from FOWLR to reef.

this is probably due to the fact that I already was running most of the equipment on the tank already and the only real addition was upgraded lighting
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[EnvironmentalWacko]

My electricity bill's Killowatt-hours are
22% higher than w/out the reef. Since I have
most of my lights on during the day, I pay
the premium electricity. This is why my bill's
KWh is 22% higher but the cost is ~35% higher.

EW.

 

[monkeyboy]

Scott D Passe helped me calculate how much my 250w iwasaki cost me on my old tank, it was around 15 bucks a month. I estimate the new 120 to be over $60 per month. Thats w/ 1020w of light, 4 mag's, 4 ph's, pc's over 2 refugiums, 2 250w heaters... eh it's probably more... damn...