My Miami or Bust!!

akabryanhall · Jan 11, 2010

Here is the plan to start with one coral, I'm thinking my neon green candy cane, and trade my way all the way to a frag of the my miami. My inspiration comes from the story of the guy on Craigs list who traded his way from a paper clip to a 3 bedroom house.
To help keep costs low, I think I will try to stay as local as possible (Central florida). If not I could pay close to $1000 in shipping when alls said and done lol. I will also have to be very careful to acquire corals that will be wanted by others, otherwise my plans could be derailed.
Will post a pic of the coral I have chosen when I get home.

Blackhawk Fan · Jan 11, 2010

That would be awesome if it works out for you. I look forward to watching this journey. Good luck!

wicked demon · Jan 11, 2010

Good luck with that, sounds like a long process, why not go for the house, sell it, then buy the coral?:wink:

akabryanhall · Jan 11, 2010

Lol, it might be a long process, but should be fun. If nothing else, it will keep me preoccupied enough to not spend money I don't have on other stuff. Yay the economy works in mysterious ways. yay

Pellaeon · Jan 11, 2010

Well with any luck, by the time you have enough saved (what it costs to buy one eye), you will be able to get a 4-5 eye piece.

I would also love to get a My Miami Chalice, but I cannot help but to think these prices will come down in a bit, just gotta have some patience I guess.

revhtree · Jan 11, 2010

Cool keep us updated!

Sikryd · Jan 11, 2010

LOL - Sounds like fun. I just hate shipping wayyyyyyyy too much to go through all that. Hopefully you have a lot of collectors or people willing to trade out that way.
If nothing else, you'll have a lot of fun trading for new stuff.

Good luck - I'll be following along!

akabryanhall · Jan 11, 2010

Pellaeon said:
Well with any luck, by the time you have enough saved (what it costs to buy one eye), you will be able to get a 4-5 eye piece.

I would also love to get a My Miami Chalice, but I cannot help but to think these prices will come down in a bit, just gotta have some patience I guess.

I'm taking this into account as well, If the price were to stay at 1500, I would be hard pressed to have anything worth trading for that, coral wise.

akabryanhall · Jan 11, 2010

revhtree said:
Cool keep us updated!

You know I will Rev

akabryanhall · Jan 11, 2010

Sikryd said:
LOL - Sounds like fun. I just hate shipping wayyyyyyyy too much to go through all that. Hopefully you have a lot of collectors or people willing to trade out that way.
If nothing else, you'll have a lot of fun trading for new stuff.

Good luck - I'll be following along!

There are some peeps here that have some pretty nice stuff, can't have WWC in your city and not have some choice pieces lol. I will not be shipping too much at all, until I get to the nicer stuff.

BayCorals · Jan 11, 2010

Good luck buddy. Let me know when you're ready. I'll have your My Miami ready.

akabryanhall · Jan 11, 2010

Haha Nice!

650-IS350 · Jan 11, 2010

The journey on this would probably be fun.

ahayes13 · Jan 11, 2010

i have to agree. i think this sounds like a blast. please be sure to make a journal up here so we can keep up to date on the process. cant wait!!!!

BayCorals · Jan 11, 2010

I can't wait to hear about your first trade. Are you thinking zoas, softie, sps, lps?

Russellaqua · Jan 11, 2010

Sounds like this will be great.

akabryanhall · Jan 11, 2010

I have decided to start with something simple. 6 or 7 heads of Green candy canes

Let the fun begin lol

akabryanhall · Jan 11, 2010

I'll keep a journal of my progress here

akabryanhall · Jan 12, 2010

I am second guessing starting out with the candy cane. I should start with something that people would definitely want. I'll see if this goes anywhere and maybe change my choice tonight.

Pellaeon · Jan 12, 2010

I would go for the hot zoanthid, red hornet, or something like that. You would only need to grow right now 10-15 polyps...

:neutral: Wow, only 10...jeeze who would have thunk it.