how much money is my tank costing me?
by Aquaboy on Sunday, March 21st, 2010 | 2 Comments
i have a 55 gallon aquarium and i want to know how much electricity it uses and about how much money per month it will cost me to run it. i am running a marineland 280 bio-wheel filter 24 hours a day and want to run a tetra whisper air pump for 30-60 gallon aquariums with one accessory attached for the same amount of time. anyone who can help give me a fairly close estimate?
air pump is 100 watts. still waiting on the results of my filter. those are the only two things i will be running constantly. like 24 hours a day.
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airpump cost only 4 wattz maybe .50 cent, php 46php=1$ so a month would cost 200php to 400php=5$- 10$ a month.
i dont know about marineland filter.
Apparently no one lists the wattage of their aquarium equipment for sale on the internet so these are going to be overestimated guesses, plus we still don’t know your kWh rate…
We’ll say that your filter is 25 watts, and the air pump is 15 (overestimation). So 40W for the two of them. We’ll also guess that your kWh rate is about 12 cents.
(40W x 24 hours x 30 days)/1000 = 28.8 kWh used per month
28.8 kWh x $0.12 = $3.46 per month