Im sorry to bring this up yet again, I know there was a thread like this the other day but any chance people could be more specific please? its just we have had our electiricity bill and my dads flipping out says its about double what he would expect it to be.

So my question is, how much is your bill, how many reptiles you are keeping for it to cost that much, and how you are heating them is it mats lights ceramics or what?

Also when people say for example 500w of bulbs how many bulbs does that mean, im trying to break down the costs of what im spending on what.

Thanks in advance guys any help is much appreciated.

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i spend bugger all on electricity, have a 50w bulb on a stat in 12 hours a day.

Jay

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Approximately £100 a month. We run at around a kilowatt of UV lighting (9 100 watt MegaRays and a couple of tubes), plus a few heat mats (say 100w), various incandescent light bulbs, couple of 100w ceramics, plus a fridge, a small freezer and a medium sized fridge freezer.
We have gas central heating and a gas cooker so they don't contribute, we also don't have a telly.

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sorry to be thick but whats a kilowatt of lighting how many lights would that be

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A 1000 watts, nine 100 watt MegaRays (mercury vapour bulbs) and a few tubes.

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unless you have shed loads then there is another reason.. the 1st thing the parents blame it the reptiles... they generally take up sod all electric

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at the moment im only running 3 heat mats on thermostats, in the winter I was running about 12 but the spiders dont need extra heat when the weather warms up so they are all switched off but only for like the past month or so and the electricity bill is quarterly. so really im not running f**k all, but they just blame that but maybe theres a problem or something.

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just a few quid a 1/4 then.. parents are full of it lol

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Yeah, i have about 1Kw of heaters on stats. Because of the overall room temp, take it as about 500w.

It is a fair chunk, but it costs next to nothing...

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three heatmats is nothing.If you don't mind me asking how much was the bill?

Our electric is around £100 a month upwards but we are running a serious amount of vivs, tubs and ten viv rack etc etc etc So exactly how much is the bill and how much of it are they freaking over?

It's hard to discuss without specifics, to me I eacpet a quarterly electirc bill to be about £400-£550 but your parents are probably expecting a £50 a month electricity bill so may be stunned by a £75 a month one...

Without know what kind of figures we're talking it's hard to know if it'd the reps, 3 heatmatts use nothing (to people on here running 50+) but to your parents who have xx years of the electricty costing £xxx per year/month/quarter it may be a shock. It's all relative.

Mason

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