electric bill

Agreed as well. My tank uses right around 1,250 watts at peak during the day

 

Funny you should ask..... I got mine in today and it was 411.91 we said remember when it was only 92.00 we have the red sea in the basement/thearter, the 220 in the bedroom, the now 92 in our sons room and the 8 person hot tub and bam its over 400! the qt in the basement has added also. the fish room for the qt and fish tanks has added but dang this is a jump.

 

mine is about $85 total for a 3 bedroom apt in the non air conditioned months

 

time to cut back on lighting cycle.

 

Mine runs $40 in winter and $60 in summer. I have a one bedroom apartment and my reef tank and a 75 gallon planted.

 

mine went up bout 50 bucks, that was before the windows were sealed up since the crappy association never did it. Usually runs me bout 150 a month in va, now with the windows sealed and all the good temperature stays inside it should drop.

 

I am not feeling the warm and fuzzys seeing everyone elses bills! I guess 3 tanks and a 10k gallon koi pond is sucking the life out of me! We also have 3 plasma tvs the wife lets run way to long. How do we get a break I would like a 100 bill.

 

When we got our first bill over 200. I took the time and upgradd all my equipment to more energy efficient units. My electric will is now 100. It was worth the money to upgrade to more effecient equipment.

 

I have the effecient equipment...... I have a mag 36 in the pond for a fountain, a mag 36 for the waterfall. In my 220 I have a mag 18 for the skimmer, 2 marineland 5500 pumps for the returns, the 92 had a marineland skimmer with a mag 9 for a return and then 4x39watt t5 light then the red sea max. The light on the 220 is a 3x250 with 8x39 watt t5 for actintic? Then the 8 person hot tub. Can you inform me of how I might do better then this effecency wise? I have a few things going but I did not think it was out of hand. There is then the 2 tvs but they are only on when watching. other then that its a 4 bedroom ranch with the basics.

 

I switched over to tunze pumps.

When you think about it, you have A LOT running at one time and it is definately using up a lot of kilowatt hours. I have come to the understanding that mags aren't exactly energy efficient. However, you are also running some HUGE pumps. When you need new pumps look into eheim and tunze. They rare both very energy efficient, but aren't cheap either.