R-O-C-K in the USA.....

[ubet_cha]

One of the impacts of my trade is that I can’t start a personal project without knowing the costs and timeline. You may remember that one of the items on my fantasy wish list was a marine aquarium. Without going into greater detail this is a high level estimate what I need to "start" if I bought everything new

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[moshah]

A membership to the National Aquarium is only like $150. :-)

[larksdream]

Hah, good point!

I was going to point out that some people do manage to scrape by in the hobby with less than a 180 gallon aquarium. ;-)

[ubet_cha]

When I started working full time I quit my Pet Store manager job, but stayed on as the Marine Tank lead. Basically I took care in the 24 marine tanks that displayed merchandise and of the 12 marine coral tanks. I was the one that the customers came to with their problems Providing safe, healthy environment that continues to develop is what interests me. It will most likely just stay on the pipe dream list.

[ubet_cha]

Yeah, but where is the challenge in decision making and invertebra choices. :)

[claidheamhmor]

Wow, that's an expensive business!

I had to quickly work out how big that is, but 180 gallons is only around 750 litres...which sounds like a lot, but that's only 3/4 of a cubic metre of water. So..big, but not gigantic. It'll weigh over 750kg though, which will make it important to have a strong structure for.

[ubet_cha]

I know. Planning a solid infrastructure is part of the fun!