What coral gave you the most bang for your buck

[Gumbies R Us]

I know for me, there are a lot of different corals to choose from out there. some are small basic frags while others can be these massive grown out colonies. I am wondering what coral have you purchased before gave you the most "band for your buck"?

 

[Uncle99]

Green slimer.
Fastest hard grower.

 

[merkmerk73]

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.

 

[Lavey29]

Anything under $30 that grew big and colorful

 

[lil sumpin]

I picked up a sunkist bounce mushroom back in October. It multiplied and ended up paying for itself

 

[krollins]

Any leather coral.

 

[SudzFD]

I know for me, there are a lot of different corals to choose from out there. some are small basic frags while others can be these massive grown out colonies. I am wondering what coral have you purchased before gave you the most "band for your buck"?

Probably my montipora. Started as a $20 frag. Maybe half dollar size and is a foot across now.

Branching hammer is second. 3 or 4 heads becoming over a dozen. But a higher upfront cost.

 

[littlefoxx]

I know for me, there are a lot of different corals to choose from out there. some are small basic frags while others can be these massive grown out colonies. I am wondering what coral have you purchased before gave you the most "band for your buck"?

Still trying to get the hang of corals, I just got two zoa frags, cloves, frogspwan and an octospawn frag. Really liking them! And they seem to like the tank I set up specifically for corals!

 

[Biokabe]

For me, it would have to be my toadstool leather.

First picked it up in November 2020:




And since then, it's grown, switched rocks, and self-fragged at least a dozen times:



You can see one of the self-frags immediately below it. I still have 4-5 of its frags still in the tank, will probably bag them and take them up to the LFS for store credit the next time I make the trek.

 

[Trixter227]

For me, it would have to be my toadstool leather.

First picked it up in November 2020:




And since then, it's grown, switched rocks, and self-fragged at least a dozen times:



You can see one of the self-frags immediately below it. I still have 4-5 of its frags still in the tank, will probably bag them and take them up to the LFS for store credit the next time I make the trek.

Ooo thats a really pretty toadstool, vibrant base is neat.

 

[Trixter227]

Z&Ps they are super hard to kill once in the tank. Almost unlimited color varietys, can grow around anything, easy to handle and frag.
They are the main thing that drew me into reef keeping oh so many years ago.

 

[VintageReefer]

My Cynarina were all between 60-80$

 

[betareef]

I think the bang for buck corals are indeed the hardy, fill the space up fast, corals like leathers and GSP. Get a couple of those going in the tank, the slow down and start to get picky as you add more variety.

 

[MIKE NY]

My Todd’s Torch…I was lucky to get a single head approx 15 years ago. I’ve fragged so many times over the years selling and trading it with many of my local reefers, club members and my LFS.

 

[betareef]

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.

Agree, although my clown isn't interested.

 

[merkmerk73]

Agree, although my clown isn't interested.

Mine ignored it for a year and then just one day paired with it and swim around and lay in the polyps

They get really sad at night when it closes up

 

[Silly clownfish]

While I agree with toadstool leathers ( I have more brown and bright green ones than I know what to do with, but they are not as invasive as RBTA), real $ bang for buck has been my frogspawn euphyllia. I originally got a small frag - probably 3 heads at most - in 2002. I have probably traded close to 100 heads over the years. I was never looking to make anything, but have gotten hundreds of dollars of livestock and dry goods, basically keeping my hobby costs to almost nothing for years. I have also donated a lot of those frags to help out my LFS during Covid shutdowns and support some fundraising events for good causes,

 

[STEEZY]

GMK zoas. Grow like wildfire in my tank, and selling frags they paid themselves off and paid for many extra frags by many multiples.

 

[katonge]

For me, it would have to be my toadstool leather.

First picked it up in November 2020:




And since then, it's grown, switched rocks, and self-fragged at least a dozen times:



You can see one of the self-frags immediately below it. I still have 4-5 of its frags still in the tank, will probably bag them and take them up to the LFS for store credit the next time I make the trek.

My leather is now 10”-12” across and has never done that

 

[Gman83]

The "princess peach" frogspawn on the left. It is taking off. I got the teal one on the right a couple weeks before, and it is just small in comparison. (The peach one was smaller when I put it in my tank).