sorry if i offended you rosebud about the "following the rules" quote, yeah i can understand how we both thought that way so i used the wrong words there. for the sake of being so late in the contest i agree with what jim said, if you can provide proof of what you paid for the coral either screen shot or receipt i think that would be acceptable for this contest because you are right it is over with as far as adding/removing things. personally i think that is how it should be in the first place but like jim said if i get a bunch of frags from my buddy for free then i am at $0 on my limit and others will not be. this will flatten out the rules good for the next contest though.

and chris i know it is not a race to the limit my point is i would rather stock a tank to the max and get a full tank of coral rather than just a few pieces and seeing some bad rock (in my case because i used base rock for my aquascape because the tank is so small)