I have a 150 watt heater, a 75 watt heater and a 50 watt heater. My
lighting consists of 4 T8 bulbs 32 watts each and 1 small 18 watt reptile
light. All I can think is that one of my heaters is shorting out and
causing all this extra electricity use. It doesn't make sense.

"Andy Hill" wrote in message
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"FishNut" wrote:
Yikes. I it's costing me about 65.00 a month to run my aquariums. I
have a
55 gallon tank, a 10 gallon turtle tank and a small 3 gallon acrylic
tank.
Does anyone else have this problem? Apparently the tank heaters are very
costly to run. And I have 3.

What's your cost per kWh?

Geez, that shouldn't be more than 200W worth of heaters, top. Assuming
they're
on 24x7 (as opposed to a more "normal" 5% duty cycle), that's 144 kWh.
At the
US average of $0.075 / kWh, that's only $10.80 (and, for a more likely
duty
cycle, more like $0.50).

Naw.

It's gotta be something else sucking down that kind of power. What are
you
using for lighting? If you're not using fluorescent, it might be time to
rethink the decision.