- Joined
- Aug 27, 2015
- Messages
- 1,296
- Reaction score
- 983
Great write up Mike. I do not buy the named corals, I usually buy frags in lots of 8-12 and they will have a range of price so 1 or 2 would be considered ultra premium and 3-4 would be premium grade and the rest is what they have the most of. I have a few corals doing this that I see on the internet where a 1" frag sells for $60-$100+ that cost me $10-15. I plan on letting my frags fill-in the display and not cut to make frags until I need to thin them out. I don't like Photo-shopping of internet pictures of corals for sale as they almost all show their coloring different in everybody's tanks. As to equipment I don't think you have to buy the most expensive but you should plan on getting great performing equipment that will suit your system 5 years down the line but sometimes the hype and user reviews do not live up actual performance, equipment fails, manufacturers go out of business or it gets so old no replacement parts. But like many people I am looking to change out my calcium reactor just because there are better than the Aqua-c Rx1 purchased almost 10 years ago. I have to take the time to save up the money but my system is 300 gallon so was looking at a Geo's Reef CR624 or CR818 or open to suggestions from people with actual use on systems this size or larger.