Mine is about $300 each month. I have a 110, 80, 60 and a 55 gallon tank. It's expensive to live in California; the electricity price is very high here if and only if you use a lot of electricity per month. What is your electricity bill per month?
How much is your montlhy electricity bill if you have tanks over 300 gallons?
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LOL 300 a month? thats effin insane man! Never fails to amaze me how much people pay to live in CA. I run a 90g with 120W HO lights FX5/Mag350, a 30g with 90W HO lights Emp HOB, and a few betta tanks with mini HOB's and a 60w PC lighting them all up, plus my comp is on all the time...I keep my place warm in the winter and cold in the summer, leave the lights on all the time etc. and the highest my bill has ever been was like 110 bucks. If i were to tighten down, keep the lights/electronics off...ease off the ac/heater and cut but on the hrs the lights in my tanks were on I can get my bill down to about 65-70 bucks a month.
I posted this on another forum to give you an idea of how much it takes to just run my 220. I did drop my temp 3-4 degrees this week to minimize the aggression of my young red bellied piranhas and to keep the price down. Might save me $5 a month.
Dixon81;3881537; said:
Whats wrong with Texas? I wear shorts, T-shirts and flip flops 50 weeks out of the year, hows that snow storm treating you guys? Austin is great, tons of culture with all the schools and festivals we have. I left CA for quality of life reasons, 67k a year goes a great deal further in Austin TX than 80k a year dose in Socal.
Amazingly, not as much as you! Been running over 500gal since august, had it battling an usually cold British winter and i think it's going to average out to about £30 a month over the year. Still, rather someone else was paying for it! lol
I cannot set up the 60 gallon tank anymore. So now I have 3 tanks running and it is still around $300. If I did set up the 60 gallon, my electric bill would be close to $450 a month. In California electricity rates can go as high as .40 per kwh if you use a lot of electricity. It sucks really does.
