There's always base rock, which can be had for fairly low prices. Depending on your tank size, a few pounds of live rock combined with some base rock could do you well. Otherwise, count yourself lucky, as Vancouver has some of the cheapest live rock on the continent. Out here in Alberta, we pay roughly double what you pay.
And welcome to the board. 
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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