What is your coral $ amount threshold?

[CeruleanLegacy]

Fish and zoas are my weaknesses, though I'm a poor graduate student with a low budget and the most I've spent on a pair of snowflake clowns was $100 and the most on a single coral frag was $50.00.

 

[twelvefive]

$30-$50. I'm not into spending stupid amounts on coral.

 

[RichieT]

I've dropped bigger money in the past for chalices. Now I don't spend over $50-60 per frag. Per polyp/eye is for the birds

 

[Mr E Wrasse]

I won't spend more than $300... i've lost some $600+ corals and I can't go through that again. lol

 

[tupes]

175 on a bleeding apple scoly. I'd spend up to 500 on a nice chalice or acan. (After my wedding) lol.

 

[lighting]

at most around $900-$1000

 

[inurocker]

100.00 and it would have to be unreal to spend that much.

 

[PaulKreider]

$150 is tops for me.. College boy problems.

 

[Rob&Gab]

Its hard to be an 18 year old high schooler with all the crazy stuff in this hobby! Most ive spent was 290 on a rainbow chalice frag but when I'm older, I'm scared to just think about how much money I will pump into my sickness hahaha

lol dont worry bro im right there with you im 22 my girl is 24 were both going crazy in this hobby, when i run out of money i ask her to buy me stuff. shes my loan shark. lol i hate it but sometimes my impulse tells me to pull the trigger. Its all for the best

! i hate when she tells me babe you gonna pay me the $5,000 you owe me yet?!?!?!?

0.o insane @(-_-)@ ::FACEPALM::

 

[Mike in CT]

I spent $150 for a pair of clowns... I justify it because fish can live 10 plus years and I'm not one to sell/give away my fish ( my kids wouldn't allow it!) so I figure its a long term investment. Of course my female jumped a week after I put them in my DT. ... Left my hood open after feeding....1/2 hour later I found her under the kitchen table. That hurt!! Kids still blame for that one

 

[Rob&Gab]

oh dang.! sorry to hear mike! :/ what type of clown?

 

[xmetalfan99]

I would go up to $200 as long as it is at least a mini colony and I absolutely have to have.

 

[Mike in CT]

Nothing crazy... A matched pair of SA fancy whites. Now I am kinda stuck because the male is now on its way to becoming female...so I now I have to find a small male to partner with and I can't a single fancy white that is the right size. When I see my 8 year old son looking at the single clown I know the next thing I will hear is " I'm still mad at you!" ( for leaving the hood open) He gets attached to every little critter in our tanks. He tells me... Dad , I would sell all my toys for my fish! Lol

 

[Eienna]

At the moment, my max is $50 (and hopefully no shipping), mainly because I'm still so new I'm afraid of killing it. Once my tank and I become more mature (and hopefully I can get some kind of a job), I can consider some more expensive ones.

 

[Ragin]

So far on an average its ranging between $100 to $200 a week. Grant you I might skip a week or two here or there. But its a pretty close number

 

[MattL22]

I used too spend $200 on sps frag easy spend $700 on nice sps pack now my max is like $50 now after buying a house and having baby!
It's just as much fun as when I spent much more on sps now I buy locally from other hobbiest and from frag rack at Lfs that's one thing I love about the hobby u can have a tank on ur budget don't need to be rich

 

[evolved]

Really depends on what coral is at stake, but I have problems justifying much of any coral when the price starts to encroach on $500-600.

Now if we were talking fish, that would be a higher number than I'd care to admit... And MUCH more subjective.

 

[glb]

No more than $40 while I'm still steep on the learning curve!

 

[vetteguy53081]

As with many, its not a matter of price but rather having it survive. To spend $150 or more and be left with a skeleton piece of rock or frag plug can be discouraging as well as painful !!