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Posted	ELECTRICTY
04-05-2007 12:48 by thomas	I AM JUST ABOUT TO BUY MY FIRST HOME, I HAVE KEPT FISH FOR A FEW YEARS AND NEVER REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT THE ELECTRITY COST.WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK THE AVERAGE FOUR FOOT TANK COST TO RUN IN A MONTH.OH WITH TWO LARGE EXTERNAL FILTERS AND A U.V UNIT.
04-05-2007 14:53 by Woz	i dont want to know thomas and more to the point i dont want want the parents to know as i think my bord would go up significantly
04-05-2007 15:04 by Lnrak	very little - probably less than a quid a week - it's really not expensive - probably cost less than your tv!!!! DONT PANIC!!:o
04-05-2007 15:33 by paul stevens	It will cost you more in a week to make your self a cup of tea than running your tank.
04-05-2007 15:35 by thomas	EXCELLENT, THE MRS IS LOOKING FOR AN EXCUSE TO GET RID OF THEM, I W O N T L E T H E R ******
04-05-2007 16:03 by Lnrak	Tell her that U wear the pants in your house!!! (I do in mine when the wife lets me)
04-05-2007 19:39 by hardnrg	you wear your wifes pants ?bizarre
04-05-2007 20:52 by Linda Chenapa	We run an 8' marine, 7 1/2' marine, 5' tropical, 3' marine, 5' cold water, 3,500gl pond, 1200gl pond, 3 tvs, 3 ntl set top boxes, 900cm oven, dishwasher, tumble dryer, freezer, fridge/freezer,a vivarium, games machines, 2 computers, that works out at £3.95 a day. We are on a key meter and they send us a statement telling us how much we use per day.
04-05-2007 23:57 by robert.pope	good job its not the old 50p meter or it would be a full time jobe just keeping it working linda
05-05-2007 00:17 by paul stevens	Now ya showing your age popey...
05-05-2007 15:20 by Lnrak	Whats wrong with wearing your wifes pants???
05-05-2007 15:20 by Lnrak	I meant trousers in Wigan it's pantsnot trousers
05-05-2007 16:16 by hardnrg
05-05-2007 17:13 by Lee Smith	If you take the following as a guess 1. heaters 2 x 200w, probably on for 50% of time = 200w 2. lights 2 x 30w flourescent on for half day = 30w 3. 2 large filters 2 x 40w = 80w 4. uv guess at 15w all together comes to around 325 watts per hour, in three hours you will use 1 kwh @ 15.33 pence (think this is about average not sure really?) so in 24 hours cost would be around £1.22, so taking a month as 30 days somewhere around; £35 per month this is only a guess, heaters will be on less in summer more in winter obviously, also if its in a warm room etc etc
06-05-2007 11:37 by stevey boy	its when u get a load of tanks that it starts to go up,me missesd would go mad if she saw the bills i have lol
08-05-2007 09:39 by Alan	I get through about 250 kw a month running 3 tanks. If you are running a 4 foot freshwater tank it won't be to bad. Its my reef tank that costs a bomb with its 300 watt lighting. As far as the heaters go I would not expect them to be on for anymore than an hour in every 24 hours in a well insulated centrally heated house. To work out the consumption find out the wattage of everything and multiply the wattage for each piece of equipment by the amount of time it is on for. So filters will be on for 24 hours a day lighting say 8 hours a day heater I would assume 1 to 2 hours per day. Plus any circulation pumps and air pumps again these will be on 24 hours a day. Once you have this figure for a 24 hour period multiply it by 365 then divide it by 12 this will give you the average annual consumption for your tank month by month. Then multiply this KWh figure by the price per unit of your electricity supplier that will give you an indication of cost. My tanks cost me about £23 a month to run consuming between 250 and 250 KWh (units). Hope this helps.
08-05-2007 09:41 by Alan	sorry 250 to 270 KWh.

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