most expensive thing in your tank

Well... the estimated value of my tank
water bill
electric bill

 

I'm with Horkn. I was simply calculating the theoretical value of my corals based on what we paid per head or per polyp. I've never even sold a frag before to someone, we just give them away sometimes to friends or to the LFS. We're actually thinking about setting up a frag tank, though, because we have a spare light fixture now Maybe we can use those as LFS currency Our tank is "worth" alot if you theoretically count it out. But what Horkn said, starting your tank with frags is definitely the only way to go. Starting with colonies is just a waste of money. If you have high quality water and alot of time (we've had our corals growing for over a year now), you'll have quite the underwater garden.

But even if I sold a frag of 4 or 5 blues for twenty bucks, the colony is still worth $700 - $1000

 

Several expensive items. All added together I have around $4,500 in the 110 in hardware / sand / rock.

 

I don't really have much in my tank. But probably my live rock.

 

For single pieces, a 40-something head colony of goniastrea.....bought it at about 190, but it grew a couple more heads since I got it.

If you aggregate the 100# of rock as being one thing, that takes it by far, as I bought live.

For equipment......my tank is a RSM 250 AIO...lol

 

My purple tang and bellus angel are the most expensive. My Borbonius that just died ranked up there. That was a hard one to see die.

Equipment... all expensive.

 

Red Sea Regal Angelfish.

 

i got everything used the skimmer the sump the lights the canopy the tank the stand for 450$

 

just bought an rbta for 85

 

$1500.00 in LED lights! (dont tell my wife!)