Candy Cane Price High

[CoralsAddiction]

I’ve noticed that Candy Cane frags are selling in the $30-$40 range. This used to be a $5-$10 frag.
I grew out a 4-polyp frag into a colony.

 

[Enderg60]

Typical coral game. Give something a stupid name and up the price.

I find it hilarious that basic green frogspawns and hammers now are called "toxic" or some crap and cost 10x as much as 3 years ago.

This zoa looks like crap, but if we blast blue lights at it and give it a weird name we can charge $50 a polyp for it.

Its just so stupid.

 

[fishski13]

its usually $5-10 a head these days

 

[ninjamyst]

Still $10-$15 a head...just depends where you get them from.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I still see $5 to $10 frags for candy canes.

Every second reefer and their uncle is selling frags of candy canes, hammer, monti caps, etc…..

 

[CoralsAddiction]

I have been mostly buying coral online for the last couple of years. $30-$40 is what I have seen from online vendors. Such an OG coral and I am not sure why it went up so high. It's like selling Eagle Eye zoa for $30-$40 per polyp.
Glad it's still cheap at other places.

 

[Kellie in CA]

As fun as it is to get new corals, I'm happy my tank is now full... prices are getting crazy and things rarely look half as good as the picture.

 

[92Miata]

I have been mostly buying coral online for the last couple of years. $30-$40 is what I have seen from online vendors. Such an OG coral and I am not sure why it went up so high. It's like selling Eagle Eye zoa for $30-$40 per polyp.
Glad it's still cheap at other places.

Everything online has a shipping and labor fee bundled into it to offset the time and effort to take it the UPS store. Common stuff that is really cheap locally is often very expensive online.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

As fun as it is to get new corals, I'm happy my tank is now full... prices are getting crazy and things rarely look half as good as the picture.

Pretty much same here. I buy coral about once a year, usually around black Friday. Wasn’t looking to add more but TCK door buster deals on gold torches got me

 

[flashsmith]

I bought a chunk locally maybe 8 months ago paid $50 for it with probably 30 heads. It fell and broke awhile back. Now I have 2 pieces with 40-50 heads each and another "starter" with7-8 heads on it. If only my sps would grow like that. Same with Duncan's they go for about 20 a head around here and I have 4 huge pieces with 20 or more heads each.So many that they are becoming a nuisance. Then again I live in WWC country and everybody including hobbyists think they are selling rights to a Spanish treasure ship here. I have bought nearly everything I have online and even with shipping it's still way cheaper than driving over and buying it. I have maybe 3-4 pieces I have bought local. Out of a couple hundred. I would rather give my overburden away than charge a fellow hobbyist for it. Especially the weed corals.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

I have bought nearly everything I have online and even with shipping it's still way cheaper than driving over and buying it. .

Wow, that says a lot!

 

[Rick's Reviews]

I’ve noticed that Candy Cane frags are selling in the $30-$40 range. This used to be a $5-$10 frag.
I grew out a 4-polyp frag into a colony.

How would you frag that please (sorry but would be very helpful in the future) I love mine for colours, my aquriam only 2 years old
Thank you

 

[flashsmith]

How would you frag that please (sorry but would be very helpful in the future) I love mine for colours, my aquriam only 2 years old
Thank you

Candy canes are very easy. After it grows out a bit you will notice the stems underneath the heads. Just clip them off. Once you see how it grows it will be very obvious where to cut. Looks like a bouquet of flowers.

 

[CoralsAddiction]

Candy canes are very easy. After it grows out a bit you will notice the stems underneath the heads. Just clip them off. Once you see how it grows it will be very obvious where to cut. Looks like a bouquet of flowers.

+1

 

[exnisstech]

This is another coral I can not grow. Candy cane, zoas and darn gsp all wither in die in my tank but other more difficult lps and some SPS thrive

 

[CoralsAddiction]

This is another coral I can not grow. Candy cane, zoas and darn gsp all wither in die in my tank but other more difficult lps and some SPS thrive

Have you checked your par levels? Wonder if they are getting cooked under high intensity

 

[exnisstech]

Have you checked your par levels? Wonder if they are getting cooked under high intensity

It was a few years ago under black boxes not cranked all the way so probably something else. They just withered away. Been a couple years so maybe I'll try again, really would like a gsp island or two.

 

[92Miata]

Have you checked your par levels? Wonder if they are getting cooked under high intensity

Could be, but doubtful to me - my candycanes get a lot of light and a lot of flow, and do fine. I've got acros sitting on the starboard right next to them and growing well. I've also got GSP in one tank that's grown onto the flow nozzles. They're in probably a 1/4" of water right under an XR30 and getting baked.

I'd suspect it's more a low nutrient issue - I've found that a lot of the "easy" corals really just prefer more nitrogen and phosphorus, and can be really hard to keep in ULNS type tanks.