You’re right, $300 isn’t outrageous and it’s all relative anyway. I’m always scared I’m going to kill anything expensive so the most $$ I’ve ever spent on livestock is a tie between the Rainbow Bubble Tip and my Tomini Tang which were both $69.99. I’ll drop money when I need to, just ordered two Nero 3’s today, but so far I have resisted the urge to drop $1000 at Battlecorals. The anxiety would be too much.LOL. The great thing about all for reef and kalk is that they are ionically balanced on their own, or so i understand that. So not really like 2 part solutions. The reef plus and chaeto are just trace elements, so as long as not dosed in mass, i don't think they'll screw anything up. My thought is the occasional ICP test will confirm that. On the 200 gallon, i might get monthly ICP once up, unless it becomes uninteresting as to results or a waste of money.
The rainbow is VERY nice looking anemone. It is definitely on my list, just went with sunburst for the 50 gallon. It was $300, which isn't--i hate to say this now but it's the reality for high end corals now--crazy expensive...
I was all excited for the results of my ICP test but it was kinda anticlimactic. I was hoping for some insight into why I hadn’t had much LPS growth other than euphillia but my parameters were all pretty good. No obvious problems, just a couple of tweaks. That’s good, but not so exciting. If your first one comes back good then I’d probably go quarterly instead of monthly as long as nothing looks off.