What's The Most You've Spent on a Single Coral

[pokerdobe]

Pretty much straight jacked from Snow's question about fish. 

 

What's the most you've spent on a single coral? What's your max budget for coral? Explain if you want to. 

 

Post a picture of said coral if you have one. 

 

For me, the most I've spent is probably $1,300 on a ER lineage Colorado Sunburst. My RRC Jawdropper comes in a close 2nd. 

 

[WV Reefer]

5 minutes ago, pokerdobe said:

Pretty much straight jacked from Snow's question about fish. 

 

What's the most you've spent on a single coral? What's your max budget for coral? Explain if you want to. 

 

Post a picture of said coral if you have one. 

 

For me, the most I've spent is probably $1,300 on a ER lineage Colorado Sunburst. My RRC Jawdropper comes in a close 2nd. 

 

I’m cheap. I bought a $100 shroom once and the pistol shrimp stole it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Now I stick to bargain frags. 

[Kellie in CA]

$300 (minus a 10% coupon and free shipping) 

 

My showpiece.  Much too big for my tank, but I love it so much!  It's colored up a bit more since I've had it and inflates to at least 6" across.

 

[Cannedfish]

I think I most I've dropped was $350 for a nub of HW. 

[Tired]

$55 ultra RFA and a $60 acan mini colony. I don't know that I'd want to spend more than that, unless it was something like a (well-established) colony of high-end zoas that I can sell frags of. Or a beyond-stunning RFA, maybe. It's a lot of money to spend on a single, delicate entity, when I could otherwise get a few delicate entities, a carnivorous plant that will produce offshoots I can sell for more critters-money, or any of several hobbies I want to take a whack at.

[Ratvan]

I have a £50 limit, thankfully there's been a few Covid 19 sales here too so grabbed all my corals for about £35 each

 

[Tired]

What's in that last picture? It looks a bit like an utterly massive zoanthid. 

[mipster]

2 minutes ago, Tired said:

What's in that last picture? It looks a bit like an utterly massive zoanthid. 

Looks like an elegance coral to me but tricky to tell with the extreme blue.

[squamptonbc]

$25. I was always cheap and wont spend large sums of money on coral, more willing to spend on fish though, but even then the most I ever spent was $90.

[DreC80]

4 hours ago, pokerdobe said:

Pretty much straight jacked from Snow's question about fish. 

 

What's the most you've spent on a single coral? What's your max budget for coral? Explain if you want to. 

 

Post a picture of said coral if you have one. 

 

For me, the most I've spent is probably $1,300 on a ER lineage Colorado Sunburst. My RRC Jawdropper comes in a close 2nd. 

 

⬆️ baller

 

$60 or $70 for me.  

[pokerdobe]

 

40 minutes ago, DreC80 said:

baller

 

Naw, most of my coral purchases are done via selling frags and reinvesting into other high end corals. 

[Snow_Phoenix]

RM 180 on a mint green Aussie elegance many years ago. Lost it when I overdosed Mg. but it was very large and beautiful. 

[debbeach13]

6 hours ago, Tired said:

What's in that last picture? It looks a bit like an utterly massive zoanthid. 

I think that is an elegance.

[mitten_reef]

Paid $250 for this bad boy.  

 

[Cannedfish]

8 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

Paid $250 for this bad boy.  

 

Not fair...

[Ratvan]

14 hours ago, Tired said:

What's in that last picture? It looks a bit like an utterly massive zoanthid. 

Yeah it's my elegance coral

[sublunary]

10 hours ago, mitten_reef said:

Paid $250 for this bad boy.  

 

I keep telling myself I'll never pay that much for a single coral.  But I now that I've seen torches for 10 times as much, that's starting to look pretty reasonable.  

 

I don't think I've broken the $100 mark yet.  Closest I've come was probably a fox coral.  I don't remember the exact price, but I do remember it waited out the 14 days guarantee and promptly decided it was done with life,   I stuck to $15 frags for a long while after that...

 

 

[EthanPhillyCheesesteak]

100 plus shipping for a bounce. But I have something I’ve been keeping my eye on recently and I’m thinking about snagging it

[jambon]

I dropped 149.00 for a nice blasto frag. It is orange with green to yellow markings. It started at 3 heads and now there are 5...

[EthanPhillyCheesesteak]

31 minutes ago, jambon said:

I dropped 149.00 for a nice blasto frag. It is orange with green to yellow markings. It started at 3 heads and now there are 5...

I kinda wanna see a picture of this thing

[jambon]

Here is this blasto. In the evening its colors pop out nicely..

[Snow_Phoenix]

On 5/8/2020 at 10:38 AM, mitten_reef said:

Paid $250 for this bad boy.  

 

I was offered an Indo gold torch last year for only RM 80. I passed, but honestly, with the way things are right now a.k.a. limited coral that we currently have in stores, I regret it. It was really bright gold too. 😞 

[IHaveADegreeInMarineBioBut]

$35 then $35 for shipping!

[aclman88]

$35 for an acan frag. Won’t spend too much more than that for my little pico. 

[Clown79]

$79