After having an interesting conversation with a buddy yesterday it got my gears spinning.
I’m wondering what people spend on there setups.
So how much did you spend on your setup?
So I’ll start, I’ll first say I am scumbag cheap. I shop for great prices but if I don’t like someone’s prices I don’t low ball I just move on.
The tank/stand I bought used for $300 but it had bad seams so I rebuilt the tank. I dropped another $1000 in rebuilding the tank and stand. I modified the tank from internal overflow to external and changed the eurobrace from 4” to 2”. I used the original skin from the stand but had a metal stand built as the tank support. Other then welding the stand I did all the custom work.
The lighting is 3 gen1 radions and diy rails, in total cost me around $600 to build.
I bought all my apex gear used, some damaged and I repaired. In total I spent around $1000 on the apex gear.
Calcium reactor was diy built. For reactor, regulator/solenoid, and C02 tank $500
Skimmer I bought 15y ago for $400 and $75 to upgrade to DC pump.
Return pump came with old 150g system.
Maxspent ethereal was free from when I was a beta tester for maxspect.
2 sets of used gyres $250ish
Sump I traded for an old mp40 I bought for $300
So in all I spent a little over 4K on my 187g system.
I’m wondering what people spend on there setups.
So how much did you spend on your setup?
So I’ll start, I’ll first say I am scumbag cheap. I shop for great prices but if I don’t like someone’s prices I don’t low ball I just move on.
The tank/stand I bought used for $300 but it had bad seams so I rebuilt the tank. I dropped another $1000 in rebuilding the tank and stand. I modified the tank from internal overflow to external and changed the eurobrace from 4” to 2”. I used the original skin from the stand but had a metal stand built as the tank support. Other then welding the stand I did all the custom work.
The lighting is 3 gen1 radions and diy rails, in total cost me around $600 to build.
I bought all my apex gear used, some damaged and I repaired. In total I spent around $1000 on the apex gear.
Calcium reactor was diy built. For reactor, regulator/solenoid, and C02 tank $500
Skimmer I bought 15y ago for $400 and $75 to upgrade to DC pump.
Return pump came with old 150g system.
Maxspent ethereal was free from when I was a beta tester for maxspect.
2 sets of used gyres $250ish
Sump I traded for an old mp40 I bought for $300
So in all I spent a little over 4K on my 187g system.