Path: utzoo!hoptoad!mejac!decwrl!labrea!husc6!yale!Ram-Ashwin From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: Re: cheap stuff Keywords: stuff that is cheap Message-ID: <28532@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 5 May 88 20:02:42 GMT References: <3787@gryphon.CTS.COM> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) Distribution: alt Organization: Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 32 In-reply-to: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) In article <3787@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon (Richard Sexton) writes: > >>$70 for a 20 gal setup ? GAK. $70 for a new setup is about how much one would expect to pay, but you can do it in 1/2 as much too if you really want to. Most stores will quite happily sell you a 20 gallon setup for *twice* as much. Here, let's add it up. Roughly: New Alternatives Tank $17 $10 (used) Hood/Light $20 $8 (shop light) Heater $4 (don't use one) Power filter $10 $5 (used) UG filter $9 $4 (make it yourself) Air pump $5 $5 (none) Gravel $5 $5 (none) Total $70 $37 For $4 I wouldn't scrounge on the heater (some of us don't live in California (yet :-))). The hood/light is *the* major rip-off -- too much money for something that hardly provides enough light anyway. > Sure, it just starts with one. Pretty soon you're stashing your lunch money > to buy "just another tank", but hey you can quit at any time, and then > you go to the fish store every friday and start blowing larger and larger > portions of your paycheck, face it pal, YOURE AN ADDICT ! You said it! It's incredible. This stuff's worse than coke (and almost as expensive) :-) :-) :-). -- Ashwin.