How much have you put into your collection?

[Franklin]

simple. . how much have all your T's cost you, cages and all!

for me i would say i have about 500 spent, for cages, sub, crickets, cage supplies and spiders themselves

but i have a good hookup or else it would be more like 750-1000 retain price for everything.

 

[Talkenlate04]

Oh good god I don't want to think about it.

 

[halfwaynowhere]

With enclosures, food, and spiders, probably somewhere around $300. And I have a pretty small collection...

 

[jeff1962]

I have 30 T.'s of various sizes, types and sexes. With enclosures and all the other paraphanalia I would say at least $2500.00 maybe more.

 

[maxident213]

Since I started, about $7000, give or take. Yikes. This explains my twenty-year-old vehicle, cheap crappy apartment, and lack of much of anything else of value.

 

[Anastasia]

I could probly retire nicely

 

[kupo969]

Oh good god I don't want to think about it.

LOL I can only imagine what the numbers are.

 

[Envyizm]

About a years worth of college tuition "community college" in shipping alone...

 

[Bosing]

I still consider myself a noob to the hobby but in a year's time I alreay spent around USD1500.

 

[Alex080]

Way too much

I have put around 16,000-18,000 in T's i have several species and about id say most of that went to expensive males i lost and had to re purchase especially my M balfouri and P metallica which is why i sold them except one of my female M balfouri

 

[HcUnderoath]

i am very cheap, have a nice collection and have only spent about 400$ give or take

never spent over 5$ for a cage, usually around 50c or less each

breed my own crickets and roaches

i get all my T's from volunteer pet store work or i get them cheap (no shipping)

3 brick coco fiber for 6$ (pretty good price i think)

raman noodle cups, cut out bottoms for larger water or food bowls

toilet paper roll hides, free fake ivy plants for arboreals, or uniqu homemade hides for larger T's

 

[Talkenlate04]

Wow and I thought I was frugal.

 

[Alex080]

Wow and I thought I was frugal.

i payed 350.00-400.00$ on mature males a week at one point thats why i let my M Balfouri and P metallica go if you had to guess what would be a range on what you have spent i am thinking a lot with a collection like yours

 

[testdasi]

LOL. I started telling myself "no more than $100". Now I think it's more than 10x that amount.

 

[equuskat]

a couple thousand, probably.

 

[BamaZ71]

I have 3 T's, and one on the way and I probably have about $400-$500... mostly because of the T Blondi.

 

[Thompson08]

I would say about $700 with all the cages and food etc..for 16 t's

 

[Godzirra]

about $400-$500, leaning more to the $500
I buy my fish tanks from walmart which cost $10 - except two zoomed tanks that are vertical.
Crickets cost $1 a dozen from the pet store, and the bag of peat moss mix thing i get is from Walmart, which is $5 a bag, i stocked up on those
but all those little things eventually cost up

 

[Dillon]

Initially I was spending a lot on glass aquarium tanks for housing. I quickly started to catch on that there are way cheaper ways to house my critters.

All in all I would say easily, on my invertebrates and reptiles, I've spent >$2000.00.

edit - this is sickening to think about...

 

[recluse]

I have well over 70 T's and lots of other bugs. A friend of mine who introduced me to the hobby had an extensive collection. When his interest started to wane he sold most of them to me for pennies on the dollar, now thats a friend. Most everything else I got from trading. I have had a few viable sacs and traded slings for other bugs. Most of my money has been spent on supplies, I use sterilite or rubbermaid boxes exclusively. Where I really have spent money is on shipping costs, for that reason right now I am just concentrating on the collection I already have rather than acquiring more. I also have several different roach colonies. All my feeders are grown by me. Once in a while I will have to buy some supplemental roaches. Really hard for me to put a price tag on but I would have to guage it at around $1,500 dollars. That is for over 70 T's, scorps, and roach colonies.