what is the most you ever spent on a coral

[kga943]

my lfs has this scolymia for 425.00 its about the size of a baseball,is that a good price ?
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm78/ken3516/432312_410363892313206_128190803863851_1861715_1379039153_n.jpg

[snorvich]

Those people to whom this thread is most relevant are unlikely to answer. I think the picture coral is probably fairly priced.

[OH GOD]

Those people to whom this thread is most relevant are unlikely to answer. I think the picture coral is probably fairly priced.

+1 ^

I will say the most i ever spent is 15.00 dollars.

i hit the 15 dollars or less frag tank at my local fish store.

[ken55]

Actually, 0.00 as I have never paid for a coral. A fellow gave me some one time but they died. However a bunch of mushrooms sprouted from the rock the Daiseys were on so it wasn't a total loss even for free.:celeb1:

[scar79]

$20. I love frags.

[seapug]

I've hit the $199 price point on a few occasions, but spent much more than that on multiple items in a single shopping trip many times. There's just something about spending over $200 on a single specimen that doesn't sit right with me, personally. If I won the lottery I'd probably feel different.

The scoly in the photo above is priced about what I'd expect. That's a nice one.

[volume7654]

80 bucks here. On a decent size piece of a golden hammer

[Buzz1329]

$100 for an elegance that is giving me more than $10 of viewing pleasure every night so I'm already making a profit. I think.

[Dragon moray ki]

250 for a donut coral on diversden. It was what I bought with my birthday money.

[jake koppen]

^ haha. i stick around $60 always waiting for that good deal on a decent size colony.

[jdhuyvetter]

I've paid $200 twice. Once for a chalice and once for an X-Factor cap. Cut one frag off of the chalice, sold it for $40 and lost the colony 6 months later (never fragged it again).

I've had the X-Factor for years and have probably sold $600 to $700 in frags off of it. Never sold a frag for more than $50.

[aandfsoccr04]

$125 for a chalice. If you like the coral and can justify the price then buy it. Money is all relative...

[Dragon moray ki]

Yeah I regret buying that coral because two days later tank crash.

[SchnitzelReef]

The price on that scoly sounds right, the more colors the higher the price. Most I've ever spent on a coral was $100 on a carpet nem. I agree with the point that it's hard to stomach spending so much money on 1 item. I'll go to the fish store and drop $300 like its nothing. But I'd never spend $300 on 1 coral


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[Rybren]

$5 - just ask my wife.

[lolgranny]

Ive had my pics on a few 200$ pieces, spent 225$ on a 3/4" acro that ive been wanting for quite sometime. No regrets. I still have a few expensive pieces out there i want.

[lolgranny]

$5 - just ask my wife.

Smart man :D

[LoJack]

$250 on a huge aussie acan colony

trips to LFS though ... thats a different story. I've dropped over $1000 on 2 or 3 seperate occasions on many pieces of coral and fish plus salt or food and such.

[NYCBOB]

a bit over $100 just one time. wife still thinks it costs only $30.

[LaOtIn]

most ive ever spent is $25 for a war coral my wife wanted.

I always find the cheapest coral and the cheapest section to shop.

i never buy the coral i really want, i just buy the cheapest.

im the guy that asks the employees if he can buy the frag pieces that fall off the shelves and are half dead at the bottom of the tank. ive got a ton of my coral that way. i buy the stuff that they think is dead or will die for a couple of dollars and put it in my tank as a project of sorts to see if i can nurse it back to life :)

i bought my pavona for $3 and it was 90% dead, now it is one of my favorite pieces and has been thriving for over a year :)

i go to shops that have $400-$800 corals, they are cool to look at, but i would never think of or even dream of owning them.

and whatever is "in vogue" i pass over for sure!

[scarface70706]

$70 on a green hammer coral... Was priced at $100 but im a loyal customer at my LFS.

[SushiGirl]

Myself: $25 on a few different ones.
My boyfriend: $125 on a Tyree chalice (we didn't know nor care, just liked it) a few weekends ago, which later that day was declared LE, everyone already wants to buy it from us. Crazy. The guy threw in a very nice acan for free. Not something I would've bought, myself.

[MaxxedMan]

I just spent $99 on my new frogspawn in Diver's Den since I thought everyone was doing it! Touché.

[nonstopfishies]

Spent over 100 on a gold torch, bleeding apple scoly, and war paint scoly on separate times. Recently bought a very large chalice colony for 300. I already have a few people lined up for frags on it to help offset the cost though.

[NatureNerd]

$50 is my max for corals. I did pay $70 for an anemone. I like watching small frags grow into nice colonies. That is the fun part for me.

[Reef264]

I'd rather not say.

[KafudaFish]

$35 but that was years ago and that included shipping.

[Donkeykong]

$15 dollars, that is my story and everyone here has to back me up if my wife ever asks. So far 60 for a gold máxima clam, but i have already decided that my next big OT check I am going to drop around 200 on a bleeding apple scoly.

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[faisal629]

so far,
$10 for 2 radioactive zoa frags
$10 for a frogspawn with 8 heads :)
$35 for a sunset monti and blueberry monti frag
so far.... ;)

[chet-tonja]

Funny thread. I honestly can't remember what was the most expensive piece I ever bought as I almost always lied to my wife about it. You know when you tell a lie so many times that you actually believe it??? Seems like I paid $100 a few times though.

[Fishdisease]

I'm sure I've paid $60 for a zoanthid colony a couple of times.

But like a lot a ppl here I never admit to spending more then $20 to my wife. She knows better, but we agree it's the best approach!