With anything, setting a budget will aid you in this hobby. This is especially true in selecting corals. Corals will eat your wallet up for lunch, and maybe dinner too, to understand why corals are so good at eating your wallet up we need to understand the basic concept of corals: corals are collected from the ocean and then either sold or fragged from a mother colony. A typical one inch frag will run you $40.
To illustrate how much $40 can buy you, I can fill my gas tank up right now for my car for $32 (and that is with premium). So instead of buying gas for your car, you have just convinced yourself that buying that coral is in fact better than buying a tank of gas.
This is of course because of two main reasons: 1) corals are pretty and “cool” and 2) WE HAVE to have them. The major drawback to corals is that they 3) can die. Mainly because either 1) you are beginning and are still learning or it may be 2) you have a cute invertebrate in your tank, unbeknown to you, that invertebrate in fact eats that coral you just happened to put in your tank and is drooling at the mouth upon seeing it. The last reason and possibly the most deadly is of course 3) picked a coral that looked “pretty”.
So in keeping with this, I suggest that if you are newly started in the saltwater hobby that you select corals that are for beginners. Unless of course that you don’t want to have gas to work, go to the local fish store, etc.
So please don’t read further.
Ah ha! You are reading further, so you DO want to spend your money?
现在，我将推荐一个非常好的珊瑚，以便您去当地的鱼类商店时，您可以告诉那里的商店人员，看看他们是否携带这种特定类型的珊瑚。珊瑚称为：假塑料珊瑚。哈哈。好吧，我只是想变得有趣。
到达当地的鱼类商店后，您可能会下车，大步向内大步走到鱼区。当然，您并不孤单，这里还有其他人。保留淡水水族馆的人。喘气！不知道他们已经存在了吗？我敢打赌，您也不愿意说您曾经是其中之一。您已经转换了，您已经看到了光。实际上，当您看着淡水水族馆时，您会注意到盐水天堂：数百个盐水珊瑚在金属卤化物的强烈照明中发光并闪闪发光。
由于您的鼻子尽可能靠近玻璃，而实际上没有在水箱内，您的眼睛被吸引到那个珊瑚上。那一个您无法没有的那个，那是您要告诉妻子的收藏的人。可悲的是，谁犯了与您一起旅行的错误，但随后意识到您正在寻找的珊瑚与她想要的那个新钱包的价格相同。你昨晚没有告诉她。你说太贵了。但是，随着您意识到，如果您说的是，您很可能今天能够获得更多的珊瑚。但是你没有。你假人。
This is a small example of how a coral alone can cost more than double, factoring in bribing your mate. So in recap, fake plastic coral is in fact cheaper and will allow you to fill your gas tank up, and prevent you from having to buy expensive bribing gifts such as purses.
In other news, I will be discussing some new corals I ordered for my aquarium in the next few days. So does anyone know of some good deals on purses right now?
