Found The Cost of Heating a Leo :D

[Rell18]

I was curious to see how much it costs to heat a leo or any reptile. I found a kwh calculator and put in how many watts I would be using for my future leo (76 watts because I plan on getting a 16 watt UTH and red heat lamp for the winter months). These are just estimates on how much it would cost. I'm pretty surprised because they are much cheaper than I thought it would be:

Per Day: .20
Week: $1.28
Month: $5.50
Year: $70.00

I'll be giving my parents $50 a month to help with the extra heating costs :main_yes:

 

[Dog Shrink]

If you get a good uth like cobra brand from either ultratherm for even the T-Rex variety I highly doubt you'll need the bulb much at all. I also keep my house cold, around 64-64 degrees F and 90% of the time only need the uth. Keeps the tank perfect at 90-91*F. So keeping just that in mind your heating cost would be even less, but imo you go thru more water than electricity when caring for a herp.

 

[Joao]

You could always enlsave some mice or hamsters to run exercise wheels that create electricity...

Dang!! I should have kept that to myself and made millions off the idea! Ahah

 

[Daedric1]

I was curious to see how much it costs to heat a leo or any reptile. I found a kwh calculator and put in how many watts I would be using for my future leo (76 watts because I plan on getting a 16 watt UTH and red heat lamp for the winter months). These are just estimates on how much it would cost. I'm pretty surprised because they are much cheaper than I thought it would be:

Per Day: .20
Week: $1.28
Month: $5.50
Year: $70.00

I'll be giving my parents $50 a month to help with the extra heating costs :main_yes:

Interesting post. If you want to figure it out for yourself, just look at your electric bill or online to find the cost per kilowatt hour in your area.

In my area, it's about 10.8 cents per kWh, or $0.108/kWh. Using this value and knowing that there are 1000W in a kilowatt, along with running a device for 24 hours per day, you can arrive at the following:
$0.108/kWh * 1kW/1000W * 24hr/1day = $0.00259/W per day.

Then you can use this value to determine the cost per device. For instance, running a single 60W bulb 24hrs per day would cost about $0.15 per day, or $57.00 per year.

 

[Joao]

 

[BaByLuvU]

LOL... interesting post thanks, now I will check out my usage Joao I notice your avatar and your leo is very unique the color and the pattern on its back a heart shape? wow :main_thumbsup:

 

[Joao]

LOL... interesting post thanks, now I will check out my usage Joao I notice your avatar and your leo is very unique the color and the pattern on its back a heart shape? wow :main_thumbsup:

Yea she has a heart You can check out more pics if you follow the link. pag 2 has updated photos.

http://geckoforums.net/showthread.php?t=70510