Best Deal or no Deal

Recently I saw a thread asking whats the most youve spent. well personally I find spending a lot in this hobby is a easy thing to do. But how about getting a huge deal, What are the best deals some of you have gotten.

I'll start my best deal was a week ago when I bought a spectrapure unit. I paid for the 90 gph. 250 bucks(note I live in Canada) and I ended up getting the 180 gph model. A big deal I think. WHat are some of yours? equipment? fish? corals? tank?

 

This bubble coral 50 bucks
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if the LFS guy had seen it expand he would have dropped it in the 100$ tank.
Pays to be there on "new livestock day"

 

My Red Planet (avatar) I got for $16.00, because they did not know it was a RP and I was not sure until it colored up a little.

 

Goldie my golden puffer that I got for $70. She was worth 300-500 at her size.

 

!0 SPS frags and a clam
Frags:
2" Orange Digi
4" Diameter Purple Cap
2" Blue Steel Acro
1" Blue Tort Acro
2" Tricolor Valida
4" Pink birdsnest
Red Planet Frag
& 3 more no name SPS frags

+ A 4" Teardrop Maxima Clam

All for $75 bucks

 

How did you manage that?!

 

Craigslist. Guy found a job in Texas and was moving. He knew he couldn't keep the stuff alive during the move and he was looking for cash.

My tank wasn't quite ready for SPS at the time, but I couldn't pass up the deal. I did end up losing the birdsnest, one of the no names, and sadly the tricolor

 

Lucky, you.

 

hey if you were able to keep all the others, even with loosing those pieces you still came out WAY ahead! I have never had luck with birdsnest for some reason?

 

when i was ten i had a little 8 gallon nano, got tired of that so put an add on craigslist and i got a guy wanting to trade his 40 gallon reef for it. such a sucker that had a crap ton of coral and a coral beauty and pixy hawk. metal halide lights when the nano had pc's