Help with pricing

[Falreef]

I have a very large Toadstool leather in my home display tank.
15" diameter at least.
I need help with: suggestions on the best way to frag this so that the Mother colony remains healthy. So that the toxins released from the stress of fragging does not poison the tank. How long to isolate in a separate container or tank? Should it be dipped to help healing?
Same questions for a good size 6-8" Green crown leather in another tank and a 4-6" Devils hand.

Pricing for these frags?
Toadstool leather: Long Tentacled Weeping Willow Toadstool; Long Tentacled Fiji Leather Toadstool
Green crown leather
Devils hand

Any help with the above would be appreciated.

 

[madatom]

When you figure it all out, I might be interested in the weeping toadstools.

Maybe before you frag, perhaps you’d be okay with us agreeing on larger sized frags?

 

[dylana407]

There is a video on YouTube on how to frag toadstool.

 

[Falreef]

Dylana407, thank you. I have seen it. I know how to frag it, but my concerns are in (1) hurting / damaging the mother colony so that it doesn't survive or come back and (2) how to be most careful to not kill everything in my display tank, or tank that gets the frags.

Madatom, from my calculations with a Diameter of 15" x pi approx. 43.5" of frags. So either 1" x 2" frags would create 50-80 frags. Or 2" x 2" would create 20 or so frags. Or 2" x 4" would create 10 or so frags. So that still is to be determined. I may decide to divide them up to each of those.

I have to get pictures of this off my phone and onto the Reef2Reef site.
Still have to figure that out too.
Does the site accept videos too?

 

[Falreef]

I also have a lot of various zoas and palys and other various corals.
Mind blower palys
Passion palys
Green Bay packer palys
Neon green cabbage leather
3 different species of Green star polyps
Dragon's breath macroalgae

The pricing of frags I still don't have a handle on
What should these sell for?
Per polyp?
Or should they be per plug? 1" frag plugs, 2" disks?

Right now trying to focus on this giant toadstool as it is shading out a large section of the center of my display tank.

I'd probably only do Pickups only.
But I need help figuring out fair prices.

 

[madatom]

I know of one guy who sold some neon tipped weeping toadstools for about $50/frag. But he sells out quick. So supply/demand?

I would think a larger piece would recover easier? But I’m just guessing.

How much you selling dragons breath?

 

[Falreef]

Video of display tank can't get to load.
Told that *.mov is not a valid extension.

I will now try pictures to upload.

 

[Falreef]

More pictures

 

[Falreef]

More pictures

 

[Falreef]

I know of one guy who sold some neon tipped weeping toadstools for about $50/frag. But he sells out quick. So supply/demand?

I would think a larger piece would recover easier? But I’m just guessing.

How much you selling dragons breath?

Note sure. It's growing on a frag rack. At least 2 large domes of it about 2-3" inches across and 2" high.
I really don't know how to price things.
I'm not planning on shipping things either.
At least not for quite a while until I figure out how to do all of this.

 

[Falreef]

That big RBT was moved from my display - split in the transfer box. Both placed in the 33L. The momma (was about 8") went missing, I assumed dead. The daughter moved around, settled in and has grown. Then over a month ago I found a "mouth" under a rock toward the front of the tank. About 1/2" in size. It is now about an inch and the mouth has started to have tentacles and bubble tips. I'm assuming that is what is left of the momma. An extra I had given away had been returned to me.
So I have one medium sized RBT anemone 5-6", a smaller 3-4" daughter and the mouth with arms 1". I'm turning that tank into an Anemone tank as I have had trouble with corals in that one (runs exactly the same water, filtration etc etc) as the tank beneath it that grows corals like crazy. But the anemone tank does some zoas and GSP well.
Have a Martian madness GBT and an Acid Wash GBT anemone and about 6 Rock flower anemones so far in that tank. As one as one long tentacled - Green / Red / Purple. Clownfish has not yet entered into anemones. At Reefapalooza I will be looking at buying 1 morph of everything I can find of clownfish, small ones to put in that tank.
Thinking maybe I'll get 10. Would then be a pretty cool tank, though it already is.
Not sure I'm selling those yet.
Again, probably won't do anything other than local pickups.
Not certain how to do pricing, so I have research what is being sold, where and for how much as well.

 

[Falreef]

BTW that anemone was a disaster in my display.
Destroyed corals, never settled down. Was in a dozen different places. Everyday someplace different for months.
So she had to be removed to another less coral populated tank.

 

[Abunadeez]

Are you selling the Xenia? If so very interested

 

[Falreef]

65 Gallon Red Sea Max 250 now complete, can't stuff it with any more corals. At least 19 fish in there.
Giant weeping willow fragged to 2/3 of original size back in March (to get ready for NY/NJ reefapalooza) got frags from 1/2" to 2" and one or two 3". About 18 frags in total. I've still got about 6 or 7 left. The mother colony is back to nearly original size in 6 months. Sand bed.
33 Long - Top tank of a stand is mostly a collection of anemones and growing out frags of GSP, Weeping Willow Toadstool, Mushrooms, Royal Green Crown Leather, an Eleganse coral, Zoas. Anemones from long tentacle green, Three Rose Bubble Tips, Two Rainbow Rose bubbletips, one Green bubble tip, one Acid Wash Green Bubbletip, multiple rock anemones. Barebottom. Stax rocks and some Live Rock. 10 or so fish in there.
33 Long - Bottom tank of a stand is filled with Pulsing Xenia, Anthelia, Torches, GSP, Zoas, Tyree Neon Green long tentacle Toadstool, Neon cabbage leather, Blue clove polyps, Mushrooms. Mostly all live rock - just 3 moderately sized pieces with some rubble. Bare bottom. 10 or so fish in there.
Fluval 5 Evo. Anthelia, Hammer, Arctic palys, Stardust palys, Armor of God palys, Monti cap orange, Neon platygyra, some yellow psammacora with long purple polyps/feeding tentacles, Nuclear green palys, mushrooms. 8 fish in there.
29 High - mostly a frag tank with a bit of everything. Hammers, chalices, toadstool, GSP, Zoas, Palys, Montipora, Red tabling milliapora. Bare bottom. 1 small yellow tang. Many critters with hermits, emerald crabs, snails, peppermint shrimp.
30 Long - packed full of mostly soft stuff, Zoas, Palys, Leathers, but have a few acans, a chalice, GSP, Hammer, Frogspawn, Candy cane, Favia and actually this tank, which I do the least on, is actually growing some SPS - Pocilopora, Stylophora and a couple acroporas. Sand bed. 12 fish in there.
That's what I've got running in my Hobby (now nearly 3 years into reef keeping and saltwater.
Add to that 9 Freshwater Tanks.
All told, time in hobby as an Aquarist - 53 years.

 

[Falreef]

I'm interested in trades or selling.
Let me know.

 

[reefingit]

pm'd

 

[EMeyer]

I also have a lot of various zoas and palys and other various corals.
Mind blower palys
Passion palys
Green Bay packer palys
Neon green cabbage leather
3 different species of Green star polyps
Dragon's breath macroalgae

The pricing of frags I still don't have a handle on
What should these sell for?
Per polyp?
Or should they be per plug? 1" frag plugs, 2" disks?

Right now trying to focus on this giant toadstool as it is shading out a large section of the center of my display tank.

I'd probably only do Pickups only.
But I need help figuring out fair prices.

As someone who buys and sells quite a few zoa frags here: Please don't do the "per polyp" gimmick, just list frag prices.

 

[Falreef]

As someone who buys and sells quite a few zoa frags here: Please don't do the "per polyp" gimmick, just list frag prices.

I agree. I like to see Frags of 3-5-10 polyps. Tough with the one polyp frags.

 

[EMeyer]

I mean, more polyps per frag is nice but most of my collection started as single polyp frags. its more the gimmick of charging per polyp that I object to. What other coral do we play such silly games with? "Now selling an acro frag, $20 per polyp"

The unit of sales is frags, not polyps, so the price should be listed by frag, not polyps. I cant imagine any buyer says "yes I would happily pay 10 times more for that frag just because it has a few more polyps"

Its like if you went to buy an ice cream cone and they listed the prices per ounce instead of the price for the cone & ice cream together.

 

[DeepSeaReefer7]

Pmd you