What coral gave you the most bang for your buck

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15$ browned out acro frag turned into an awesome blue acro.
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Where did you bought those pretty cynarinas?

I buy from a wholesaler/importer directly

Purple / green striped 2” diameter - 60
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“High grade Rainbow Cynarina” - opens to 2.75”. this one was a lot, it has a glowing gold ring, purples, greens, blues. The wholesale price on this was 180
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My leather is now 10”-12” across and has never done that
It took a while before it started self-fragging - I think it really only started early last year. If I had to guess, I think it's related to where it's positioned - it's grown itself directly into the path of my return line. When it's getting ready, one of the "lobes" will start growing out while slowly pinching off from the main cap. Eventually the pinch completes and the new frag drops down.

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I think this is the start of the next frag, but it's always a little unpredictable. The whole process usually takes a week or two.
 

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It took a while before it started self-fragging - I think it really only started early last year. If I had to guess, I think it's related to where it's positioned - it's grown itself directly into the path of my return line. When it's getting ready, one of the "lobes" will start growing out while slowly pinching off from the main cap. Eventually the pinch completes and the new frag drops down.

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I think this is the start of the next frag, but it's always a little unpredictable. The whole process usually takes a week or two.
Interesting. I will have a look at mine in the morning when the lights are back on.
 

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GSP.

Carpeted my island rock from a small patch in about 9 months.'

Then I was able to harvest pieces and attach to the back wall.

It's just a beautiful coral - like flowing green grass. My clowns love it.

In freshwater you go through a lot of pain trying to replicate that with dwarf hairgrass.
And Dwarf Hairgrass categorically refuses to attach to the back wall. :winking-face-with-tongue:
 

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$5 GSP matt that LFS just tore off and I Super Glued to a rock has taken off and really puffed up (in <6 months)

2x $25 single ridordea frags have turned into 7 (at 1.5+ years)

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*ricordea on middle island are pretty big and jammed all together but oh well
 

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My pink cabbage leather coral, a friend asked me to hold a small piece while his tank was being set up and it has taken off like wildfire... beautiful to see but a bit much for my small 28 gallon biocube...
 

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My Duncans, they lose heads every now and then but grow new ones. Also my Trachy I got for $80 when it was small, now it’s huuuge.
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garf bonsai and green slimer. both are growing well in my tank. my main source of store credit aside chaeto at my LFS lol.
 

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This little frammer was $35 in March 2017, brought me back to taking care of my tank... grew in spite of less than favorable conditions. Been through high nutrients, low nutrients, swinging temperatures/alk/ca.
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Recent picture, total polyp head count throughout the tank is around 80 to 100, fastest grower for me. I have two other hammers that grow but this is almost invasive. It recently split in two and I rebuilt it in the current spot with the remains scattered elsewhere, but doing fine. I lose polyps occasionally but it doesn't affect the whole coral.
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