What are the costs to consider before I get a fish?

What are the costs to consider before I get a fish?

Marc Grover (Professional Aquarist) gives expert video advice on: Do fish make good pets?; How much time and energy do fish need? and more...

You have to look at how much physical space you have to put your aquarium, you have to look at what I term your 'comfortable budget'. And that's not necessarily what you can afford, but it's what you comfortably want to spend, and then you have to look at the type of fish you really want to get into, whether it's a fresh water tank, fresh water plant tank, salt water fish, salt water coral. All those things have different price points, different size requirements, different equipment requirements. What I'll do is, I'll take those three basic criteria, put them together with what you want and see if I can make it all work. You can spend as little as $100.00 to start a fresh water tropical system, you can spend as much as $25,000 and get what I have, what you sitting behind me, and every price point in between. You can spend $5.00 and get a Beta, so there's almost every budget range out there that makes it viable for you to get the fish.