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Looking back......
I been looking back and thinking how much I have had paid for some of the corals and frags when I didn't know any better.
OMG is all I can say. Green star polyps $20 for a 2"X2" frag Common green zoas(not florescent ones) $15 for may be 10 polyps. Halameda algae ,yep I paid 5 backs for it believe it or not. One Purple mushroom I got for $19 at the store. Anthelia frag(small) $20, because I been told it's uncommon coral and I liked a look of it at the time. What was your "screw up" experience when you started reefing? |
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LOL, I bought a rock with about 12 "rare red Tonga mushrooms" on it from a store in Victoria for $90. They melted off the rock within a couple of days and I had a lovely paperweight.
I also did the buy one get one free fish from petcetera, "wow if I buy two I get two free". Yeah, putting four fish at once into a 20 gal....not so smrt. After that my next purchase was The Conscientious Marine Aquarist by Fenner and I had some reading to do
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Just about every sps I've ever bought lol but u remember the girlfriend bought me a coral for my birthday she didn't know any better so she spent 200 on a huge merulina sp. Well to say the least it was soccer ball sized and sweepers just as long I tried to keep ut but my bug tanks weren't healthy enough and my small one was too small. I ended up breaking off chunks and giving as much away as I could
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I think my screwup was starting a tank in the first place, my mortgage would be paid off by now.
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$20 for a single head of frogspawn was probably the worse one for me. However any of the acropora under 1" and over $20 that I've purchased also strike me as a rip off.
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O, yes I forgot about a head of frogspawn but I paid $30 at the store(no names), got it home two days later had only skeleton left.
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I had several screw ups:
1. Buying the cute little Sailfin Tang for my 90g tank. A year later I had to buy a 225g to house him. 2. A fist-sized piece of rock covered with mushrooms and/or palythoas for $10 each. Of course I bought both of them and have been trying to get rid of them ever since. 3. Me: "Why is your RBTA brown?" LFS: "Oh, it is a Rose BTA. It just hasn't coloured up yet."
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This is great, keep it coming. I am learning something already, it may help out someone starting out.
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