No love for maxi mini nems :(

[Tommypantsmagee]

Forgive the sandbed. We did some restructuring and are having a little bloom at the moment.

 

[Tahoe61]

Here are our Nems...well most of them anyway

Love, love those!!!

What lighting are they under?

 

[Tommypantsmagee]

Radion with T5 supplement.

Love, love those!!!

What lighting are they under?

Radion with t5 supplementx2. These are Glassmunky's nems too since we are a couple and both in the hobby

 

[GlassMunky]

Mine started out blue/green, now it's red, lives high up on a rock., likes the light, whereas the rock nems live low and out of bright light
AquaSD had lots of them

"Had" being the key word.. I can't find any for sale online other than random 3-pack (which I don't trust as it's not wysiwyg)

I've never heard of an anemone changing color, that's really odd, and I'd love to see pics of you have them

 

[Seahorsekelly69]

I wonder if it's because they seem to live forever? I've got 2 in my reef, and through thick n thin, they've handles my waves!
I've never had issues with them bothering fish or anything else! And I'd certainly be begging you for some of the gorgeous ones you posted pics of, if I hadn't gone seahorse crazy. Lol. My poor reef .
I hope you do keep them thriving! I have a feeling this is one that will come back around. Sticks n stones don't last like these beauties!

 

[BKjohnny]

Just like most things in this hobby, they went the way of the dinosaur. Now it's all about the most colorful rainbow unicorn poop fire super rare named livestock that gets people's attention

LOL... thanks for the laugh

 

[rock_lobster]

We see them frequently. Usually at least 20 on eBay at any time.

 

[GlassMunky]

We see them frequently. Usually at least 20 on eBay at any time.

??? link one up?
Id love to find nice ones.... like i said the only ones we see online are your plain green/red ones and now people even want $50 for those! we can get the regular ones from our local store for $35 with the store making some money.... but we are really only looking for the true ULTRAS

 

[GlassMunky]

We see them frequently. Usually at least 20 on eBay at any time.

I'm also very hesitant about ordering from random people, and not a reputable store.....
Ive seen too many people get burned, myself included, from online sales....

 

[GlassMunky]

This is exactly what im talking about......
None of these are actually ULTRA quality and they want an INSANE amount of money.... our local store has ones that look like this for $35 as i mentioned....
Its just sad.

The MOST we paid for any of ours was $69 and that was for a TRUE rainbow.....

 

[rock_lobster]

I'm also very hesitant about ordering from random people, and not a reputable store.....
Ive seen too many people get burned, myself included, from online sales....

Any store can get maximini. Most just don't put them on the order list because they are very difficult to sell(with the newer rock flower craze.) You can probably convince your LFS to order a few if you ask them.

 

[GlassMunky]

Any store can get maximini. Most just don't put them on the order list because they are very difficult to sell(with the newer rock flower craze.) You can probably convince your LFS to order a few if you ask them.

You seem to be misunderstanding me.
I've stated many times that my local store does have them. And for under half the price. But none of them are nice. I'm looking for high quality wysiwyg ones.

I understand the market dictates what's available, just sucks when they stop bringing in any that are nice. I was hoping that by being here on a national forum rather than my local ones I might have better luck finding some, but it seems like they just aren't being harvested like they used to.

 

[GlassMunky]

Hence the "No love for maxis" title. Nobody's got any love for them anymore.

 

[rock_lobster]

Hence the "No love for maxis" title. Nobody's got any love for them anymore.

Did you ask the LFS about them? When they order they can select ultra grade instead of basic and I'm sure you will get some that are just as good as the 20 you currently have and can we please see a pic)

 

[GlassMunky]

Did you ask the LFS about them? When they order they can select ultra grade instead of basic and I'm sure you will get some that are just as good as the 20 you currently have and can we please see a pic)

our LFS know very well about our Nem collection, and most of the time we buy them before they even get acclimated to the store tank. except the problem is that what goes for "Ultra" these days is like whats on that site that i posted up. and those are just regular. so i need WYSIWYG, otherwise we end up with just more of the same.
Photos are posted up a few messages above here by Tommypantsmagee

 

[jpreefer]

You seem to be misunderstanding me.
I've stated many times that my local store does have them. And for under half the price. But none of them are nice. I'm looking for high quality wysiwyg ones.

I understand the market dictates what's available, just sucks when they stop bringing in any that are nice. I was hoping that by being here on a national forum rather than my local ones I might have better luck finding some, but it seems like they just aren't being harvested like they used to.

There is just no market for them as there are much better designer nems available these days.

Why would anyone in a business purchase products that don't sell but to a very small percentage of the population?

 

[rock_lobster]

our LFS know very well about our Nem collection, and most of the time we buy them before they even get acclimated to the store tank. except the problem is that what goes for "Ultra" these days is like whats on that site that i posted up. and those are just regular. so i need WYSIWYG, otherwise we end up with just more of the same.
Photos are posted up a few messages above here by Tommypantsmagee

Ya that's probably the issue you are looking for "ultra" ultra lol and those would be just top few in a large quantity buy of ultras. But like you said no one wants to buy those regular ultra so it would be a very bad investment for a business.

 

[Tautog]

"Had" being the key word.. I can't find any for sale online other than random 3-pack (which I don't trust as it's not wysiwyg)

I've never heard of an anemone changing color, that's really odd, and I'd love to see pics of you have them

I couldn't find it in the original form of blue/green, but here's it as red, it's the highest coral/ nem in the tank today

 

[cnseekatz]

I've got a blue maxi that has survived a couple tank crashes, and being accidentally torn in half.

 

[GlassMunky]

There is just no market for them as there are much better designer nems available these days.

Why would anyone in a business purchase products that don't sell but to a very small percentage of the population?

What are you referring to in regards as "much better designer nems"? that statement kind of makes me laugh, because no nems are "designer" nobody is breeding nems and coming up with different morphs like they breed fish.
Rock nems are "Blah" in my opinion, if thats what you are refering to. I think Maxi's are much nicer.
I guess we just have better taste than most people tho ;Playful(joking)