Any time when I buy a fish or a coral, I've considered the money lost before I lost the fish/coral. I have fully anticipated the fish/coral will not make it. And I feel bad about the money for the first couple of days and that feeling will go away fairly quickly.
And if I lost a fish / coral after a certain period, I usually feel bad about the animal itself but not the money.
if you've got the cash flow and are absolutely confident you can keep a rarely collected deep water specimen alive and thriving for many years (hopefully close to its average lifespan in the wild, which no one probably really knows), then why not? i'm not sure i can fulfill the latter, although I frequently daydream about it with my new Elos 120XL aquarium that is currently sitting in my living room and designing a reef around a lone wrought-iron butterfly.
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