check out your local reef club for good deals on corals. just last night my buddy bought 15 raffle tickets @ $1 a piece and left with 3 decent sized (5+") sps pieces and an acro frag about 2". also, going to frag swaps is my new thing. i went to my first one in october and i'm hooked. they are awesome places to get nice pieces at killer prices and also to talk with other fish geeks like ourselves.