I feel all named coral frags are not created equal ,, if a coral company imports a SPS colony or any of the other types of corals that can be fraged and sold,, names it ,, frags it ,, puts the frags up on their site for sale ,, sells them ,,, then the imported colony is gone ,,, the name given to the colony is a waste of time ,, they could have just said a red acro ,, a green acan a blue zoa and been done with it ,, but
if your a company that is going to grow this coral out ,, sell frags for the foreseeable future ,, keep it as a parent colony to harvest frags from ,, the coral is going to considered by the company as a signature coral if you will ,, then naming this coral is a good thing ,, we as customers know what we are getting when we buy this coral ,, I would say ,, most if not all of these signature type corals are not just your run of the mill corals ,, they are corals that have better than average color ,,
When it comes to pricing ,, I don't give the cost of a frag a second thought ,, the prices on " all " of these high priced corals will come down at some point ,, the way I see it ,, there is no way around this ,, I am only using this coral and vendor to make my point ,, Raja Rampage Chalice and J. Fox corals ,, if you go to his site ,, he sells frags of this coral on his site for $150 to $200 a frag ,, more or less ,, when this coral was introduced to the hobby and you wanted a frag ,, you had to go to J. Fox to get it ,, he set the price,, it was the must have chalice ,, its a looker ,, who doesn't want it
I know I wanted it ,, I am sure J. Fox made a ton of money on this coral ,, he should have ,, I don't begrudge him on this ,, as other coral vendors and reefers bought their frags and grew them out and sold them ,, the price of this coral has dropped ,, even though J. Fox still has his frgas priced at whatever price he ask for them ,, this coral can be had for about half his asking price from other sources ,,
My point is ,, every time a coral company sells a frag of one of their signature ,, high $$ coral frags ,, they are moving towards the asking price on this coral to drop as other vendors and reefers grow them out to a point where they can frag them ,, like the Raja Rampage Chalice has shown ,, looking at the big picture ,,, this really is a big deal ,, with the Indo ban ,, not as many new corals are entering into the market ,, who know where the hobby is going down the road ,, will there be other coral bans that come into play ,, I think the day is coming where the only corals that are going to be sold ,, are grown by companies that have invested in large grow out systems ,, and these companies I feel don't have a necessarily secure future ,, as more and more hobbyist grow these corals ,, we reefers in the hobby won't have to go to these companies to aquire our frags ,,
