PUB bill for a typical marine tank.

[Victor007]

not sure abt that. think it will dpends on how it affect ur chiller also. now using all T5. MH effect is nice but still too much...haha..maybe until i change to a much stronger chiller.

300 to 700 bill...i also shock. but i just check the bill and meter.

the bill wrote it as "estimated reading" then i check the meter.

meter reading is much lesser than the estimated reading.

after calculating, they charge me extra $100..... :S

but think not only mH, these days weather very hot, whole day on aircon also the cost of it.

but calculating the power usage for MH and T5, MH caused the chiller to work harder and cost around $100/- to run each month.

just my own observation after monitoring the meter for a week.

think if u wanna run a MH, u need a good energy efficient chiller to offload.

[reefer_cosmo]

Yeah guys, I agreed that magnetic ballast very high energy load. I thought the Watts consume is just the 150W rating, apparantly not. Also, the Resun CL280 kick in and out very often, that also increases the electrical consumption (especially during the kicking in part).

The Resun chiller cheap cheap, just S$300 (if I remembered correctly) but just running it for a few months, the electricity bill far exceeds the cost of the chiller! Penny wise, pound foolish ... ha ha ha.

My PUB bill increased from $200 (was around $160 to $200) prior to starting my marine tank, to a peak of $450 ... which I could not take it anymore, and just switches off the darn Chiller and MH light. Converted the reef tank to FOWLR in an instant! ha ha ha

Hope that next month's bill can drop below $300 mark.

[piero]

How come all the bill so siong?

I am running a 4 feet tank with 6 T5 (54W), two tunze controllable wavemaker, 1 rio return (45W) and 1 OR3500 (65W) plus dosing computer, FR driven by ehiem 100 and a resun 1/2HP chiller. Plus Deltec APF 600 using gravitational feed.

Bill last month which is the peak due to the hot weather is only $140.

Are you all using beckkett skimmer or?

[reefer_cosmo]

Dunno why bill so high ... maybe some components / equipment not energy efficient. I found out that by turning off my MH light and chiller, electricity consumption drops dramatically. No choice, with such high electrcity bills, I have decided to downgrade from a reef tank to a FOWLR.

You know how it is in this hobby, initially came in big, with huge beautiful dream ... setting up a reef tank, have clams, MH/Chiller to support them, later go SPS etc. etc. But the reality really stinks when you realize the running costs associated with such a setup. Beauty comes at a cost. I guess the old chinese saying is true: Paste cash onto the wall, and the wall will look beautiful too. HA HA HA.

Below, before and after pictures. Before: Reef tank (small one), and now, a FOWLR with 15 fishes and 1 crab. Predatory theme. Mostly wild caught from Bedok jetty, heh heh.

[MachoMarlin]

Dunno why bill so high ... maybe some components / equipment not energy efficient. I found out that by turning off my MH light and chiller, electricity consumption drops dramatically. No choice, with such high electrcity bills, I have decided to downgrade from a reef tank to a FOWLR.

You know how it is in this hobby, initially came in big, with huge beautiful dream ... setting up a reef tank, have clams, MH/Chiller to support them, later go SPS etc. etc. But the reality really stinks when you realize the running costs associated with such a setup. Beauty comes at a cost. I guess the old chinese saying is true: Paste cash onto the wall, and the wall will look beautiful too. HA HA HA.

Below, before and after pictures. Before: Reef tank (small one), and now, a FOWLR with 15 fishes and 1 crab. Predatory theme. Mostly wild caught from Bedok jetty, heh heh.

Your Pek Tor (Spinefoot)looks delicious!

....Juz teasing! Nice set up, you do fishing and net casting?

[uLtRaMaN]

I oso tot of keeping corals initially but after looking at d electrical bill i surrender liao, going for fowlr

[reefer_cosmo]

Your Pek Tor (Spinefoot)looks delicious!

....Juz teasing! Nice set up, you do fishing and net casting?

Caught those Pek Tor using line and hooks. I actually started the hobby of fishing first, and once I got hooked onto that hobby, and starts to get fascinated by the marine fishes ... that's when I decided to keep a reef tank. Initially, I experimented with a FOWLR for a while in a fresh-water converted tank, then I proceeded to purchase a proper marine tank setup and started reefing.

Long story short, not enough money to sustain the reefing hobby to the kind of standard that I wanted it to be, so might as well go back to FOWLR to save the $$$.