Expensive Hobby

[ReeferRob]

Being that this hobby is soo expensive, and we all try to live around our budgets. So what's the most you'll spend on anyone coral? We all have personal limits as to what we will allow our selves to spend, what's yours?

And the time you broke your own rule, how much did you spend? What did you tell your wife or significant other it cost you?

And for fish? What is reasonable and what is redonkulous?

Pictures would be sweet in this thread too!

[demonclownfish]

zoas i will only ever pay $10 and get one MAYBE 2 polyps.
LPS i can go up to 60 and no more(at least until i get a job).
sps i can spend $0 on.

and then there are the scaly creatures who roam the tank....

good price is anywhere from free-$100
redonkulous price is $200-$10000

[jimsflies]

I personally like the under $30 price range, especially for fish. But I did go over that with the yasha goby I bought a month or so ago. My tastes weren't always that cheap...but after a few "hard lessons", I have tried to be more practical.

[MizTanks]

So far I haven't gone over 25$ on my fish but I'm sure that'll change when it comes time to buy my * Flaming Prawn Goby*@129$
I did pay 60$ for 4 heads of Duncan?

[BriGuy31+]

I tend to have "high-end" taste on a small budget. Although, I am more apt to buy something if I can frag down the road and make some money back on it. I always try to trade if I'm looking for corals but I fund my tank(salt, additives, bulbs, etc.) from sales of my corals.

$150 on my picasso clownfish pair. $100 limit on a single fish is my rule.
$45 polyp for zoas is the most I've spent. I would say that is my limit on zoas. Although, I will try to throw in some trades+cash if I see something I really like.
$60 on SPS is my limit for a frag. But I think the most I've spent is $40.
LPS-don't really care for. Maybe the most was $40 for a chalice.

[streetrodder007]

I only will buy coral's in the $10- $30 range and grow them out, all varieties. I have 1 guy in Roseville that I have bought a lot from, and its only because he has cheap prices. I have no problem giving him $100 each time I visit, but I also walk out with 5-8 bags of all different healthy corals.
My first Blue Hippo was $65 and died of a disease in about 3 months. So that's the ballpark price on a fish.
1 ZOA head for $85 because it has a microscopic yellow dot on it's *** is just stupid.

[MyNemesis]

I try to keep coral purchases to less than $50.00, but I have spent up to a buck. . . or buck and a half. Fish are limited to the $60.00 to $80.00 range. Did you ever notice it is the slowest growing, most expensive corals that always wind up getting stung by somebody else or knocked off by a fish onto a killer echinata?

[ReeferMike]

for livestock, $100 is my limit for any one thing that i NEED to have...- for equipment i usually need to save for in $200 increments. budgets suck lol

[Myteemouse]

my general rule is not more than 25-50 for a frag mostly in the 25-40 range
but of course we all have to have rules in order to break them
80 on this one


100 on my Rainbow acan


25 on one polyp of these gobbstoppers

[softiegirl]

Id have to say I HAD to have a capt america paly for $75 and it aint all that! I tend to spend too much on everything I buy honestly, but I tell my sig other "it was only $20!!".... for everything! lol