so heres a odd question.

d1anonly22

d1anonly22

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how much does doing water changes effect your water bill. and im asking from experiences. i live in visalia california and i currently have a fifty gallon half full and i honestly don't do a lot of water changes, for some reason my water level never really change and the last water change i did was three months ago. well anyways back to the question at hand, my girlfriends dad whom we live with says that the water bill is now 500 dollars and i highly disbelief its from my one fifty gallon with twenty five gallons of water in it. anyone care to enlighten me?
 
Well the fact that you are living in your girlfriends dad house may speak volumes as to what the real issue over the water bill is. Being a 30 year military veteran I spent allot of time with my son not just talking but shared experiences where I was able to point out life important lessons on responsibility, love, honor, devotion, self respect, self respect. By the time he was 17 he was working two jobs and by 18 joined the service and became an electronics tech and at 22 working as a civilian for a military contractor traveling all over the country, and having fun on his own terms in his own home.

Long story short IMO, if you can afford your own aquarium, you should want to own/rent your own water and be the man that pays the bills in your own place. This can either be taken as very good advice or criticism, but I assure you I mean only to imply the former.
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^ lol, ambitious answer

i have well water, but i still hear complaints about "overworking the well pump"....

is there fish in this less than half full tank???
 
well sorry but i was asked to live here and i currently have three jobs, they needed me here more then i needed to be here and i had my own place. so learn more about someone before trying to give life advise. IMO of course. oh and about the service i was going to the marines before i hurt my knees
 
$500 for a water bill hell I have 10 tanks running one 75 3 55s and others down to 2.5 and my bill is just over $40 a month sometimes lower with 5 people in the house and I do 20% on most of the tanks once a week and on the 75 twice a week.....

If water is costing you that much I would hate to see the power bill.....:nilly:
 
How are we supposed to know, I think the psychic network is another site.

Of course a tank that never has it's water changed isn't the cause of a really high water bill. Why drag your fight here. If you didn't use water you didn't use water.

Changing water for my tanks amounts to a couple of dollars a month.

Now the important things are how much does water cost in your home? Does it also include a sewer charge? How much a thousand gallons is it? How many gallons did the house supposedly use?

If you shut things off and go down by the water meter, do you hear it run? If it does there is a leak. And that's frankly about the only way to use water worth that much, unless there is some strict rationing that you violated due to drought or something.

Is the lawn or garden or some grapevines being irrigated by the house? Do you take 3 hour long showers? Fill a leaky swimming pool?

If not. Your meter may have gone bad. Or it's back to that leak someplace.

Or you are just being jerked around for some reason.
 
I am on well water....just the charge for electricity to get it out of the ground.

I am sure if you check on line or call the water company, they can tell you the charge for a given volume of water. Even for California, that sounds like a lot for a water bill, but I haven't lived there in years.

If you haven't been doing water changes, obviously your tank is not the cause of the high bill.
 
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