Help me decide

[Ryde]

I'm 15 and make my money for doing many chores around the house or for family, I spend it all on reefing lol. Well I have saved enough for either a Lime Time Torch or a Holy Grail (which I like both) with all the Memorial Day sales. I would like to- (much later down the road) frag and sell for extra hobby money. So, I'm stuck on which mark-up named torch to buy, thanks. Below are pictures.

 

[Tcook]

Buy a coral(s) for $250. Put the other $250 into an IRA.

 

[Powahfull]

5 dollar frags!

 

[Ryde]

5 dollar frags!

Only if haha!

 

[James_O]

It all depends on your tank. How mature it is, what your parameters are, what your flow looks like, how good is your lighting, etc.

Spending that much money on a coral, just to have it die because your tank isn’t ready, is a waste.

Are you sure you’re ready for a $450-$500 coral?

 

[Ryde]

It all depends on your tank. How mature it is, what your parameters are, what your flow looks like, how good is your lighting, etc.

Spending that much money on a coral, just to have it die because your tank isn’t ready, is a waste.

Are you sure you’re ready for a $450-$500 coral?

Well lets see, I have been in the hobby for little over a year. Got my first 3 hammers in July 2020 (all have grown at least 1 new head, the most being 5). Later, in October I got 2 blue mushrooms, red monti, blue chalice, green trachyphyllia, and a fruitloop acan, growing a new head. I have a nuclear torch and indo gold torch I picked up in January 2021, they are doing really well (currently bring even more coral out of them) . Note I also have 2 clown fish a fire fish, and diamond watchmen goby, I have only ever lost the single chalice due to a temp swing.

I feed reef roids every other week
lighting is a radionxr15 pro
I have 2 eheim heaters
I have a hydor nano 850, I dwon graded from a hydor koralia 565gph
I water change 3 gallons on a 32 tank every week

I test weekly
Salinity: 1.025SG
Temp: 78F
Ph: 8.00 (can't ever get it any higher.)
phosphate: 0.05ppm
alkalinity: 9.4dkh
Calcium: 480ppm
ammonia: 0ppm
nitrate: 5ppm
nitrite: 0ppm
mag: 1400ppm

What do you think? I don't mind waiting or saving.