Paly/Zoa craze almost over??

aquarius77 · Mar 13, 2008

I voted it is not over, but thats my opinion. It has slowed but ill never forget my first time zoo shoping. On the other hand i dont recall ever shopping for sps but i have a tank full of them?

Ill always rock the Z's`n`P's. Im still needin some true rainbows. Whos got me?

Heres a recent pic of some of my collection coming back to life in the biocube i set up for the soft stuff that i just cant get rid of.

Paintguru · Mar 13, 2008

I moved to the zoa/paly "craze" because I failed at keeping SPS and they were the next most colorful thing out there. I still wish I could have gotten SPS going in my tank, but you can only take what you are given I guess. Perhaps others went into it because it was a craze...I went into it (and am still in it) because it was the thing I was best at keeping.

smcooler · Mar 13, 2008

I think sps will be near the top of the collector list just because of the progression of the avg. hobbiest. Zoa's i think are still hot. the last 2 frag swaps i atended guys were nuts over the high end zoa's. Dr. Mac was at both swaps and he sold out of zoa's. JMO.

stan

Psychographic · Mar 13, 2008

I think the Aussie LPS craze has caused the dwindling interest in Zoa's and Paly's myself.

I still and always will love them in my tank.

rdvab · Mar 13, 2008

revhtree said:
Your opinion is just that, yours and it does not reflect the TRUTH at all. This site was created for friends to hang out and trade without any rules about trading and selling in certain forums.

This statement you made is totally off, and you really are way off base. Sorry if this seems hard, but it's really like a sucker punch from behind for no reason.

Although some points I made might be off , I still believe as with all fads ,there has to be a forum to "pump" rare and exotic ,and that is why people follow thes sites.If not how do you explain:

Exotic Palys For Sale!!!

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1. Nukes (13 polyps) $500
2. Purple Deaths (4 polyps) $125
3. Copps Palys (5 polyps) $175
4. Red Wines (9 polyps) $225
5. Pyro's Envy (4 polyps) $120
6. Grimace Palys (3 polyps) $40
7. Midnight Skies PE (13 polyps) $150
8. Er1c Palys (6 polyps) $80
9. Legions of Evil (18 polyps) $150
10. Desert Storms (7 polyps) $100
11. PPRPEs (3 polyps) $175
12. PPEs (4 polyps) $175
13. Happy Sahmains (4 polyps) $100
14. Organism Palys (6 polyps) $80

revhtree · Mar 13, 2008

Hmmm you'll find selling on every site you go on right?

It has nothing to do with "pumping" any fad. What do we have to gain in pumping a fad? Let's see here I am a hobbiest do you think I want prices to go up on corals? Heck no, I spend enough as it is and don't need higher prices. But you are welcome to your opinion even if you are wrong.

PS. How long did it take you to find that big list? How many of the smaller lower priced ads did you skip to pull this one up?

rdvab · Mar 13, 2008

OK..........I will be wrong

revhtree · Mar 13, 2008

Some of the other things I can agree with. But why this site was created was not for the reason's you suggested. Thanks.

Sorry if I was short, blunt, or rude.

ReefDoctor · Mar 14, 2008

NOPE... Craze / popular Always Zoas will be at the center of this Hobby, a gauge of the economic health of the entire Hobby

HERES WHY...

So many colors, So many Morphs that do not change much with lighting

Dependable, even inexhaustable supply and demand

Zoas and Palys are "OVERALL" more affordable than the other "HYPE" corals ie: micromussa, Chalice ect. So they are able to appeal to a larger market segment

For every Old reefer that moves on into Chalice or Micro or even acan I bet 10 NOOB reefers START collecting Palys and Zoas for the above reason... Zoa and Palys are a Market that will NEVER die

revhtree · Mar 14, 2008

Good points! I hope you are all right!

surfn · Mar 14, 2008

rdvab said:
Although some points I made might be off , I still believe as with all fads ,there has to be a forum to "pump" rare and exotic ,and that is why people follow thes sites.If not how do you explain:

so, are you saying b/c there was a fad with zoas, thats why a zoa specific site was created?

were you aware that there was already a zoa specific site before we came along? only reason we went into full bloom is b/c that site was hacked into and went down....and all their members came over here.

rdvab · Mar 14, 2008

surfn said:
so, are you saying b/c there was a fad with zoas, thats why a zoa specific site was created?

were you aware that there was already a zoa specific site before we came along? only reason we went into full bloom is b/c that site was hacked into and went down....and all their members came over here.

Yes I was there as well.It's not like I just came along and decided overnight ,what I believe.I am not like that.That is why I am not saying this site in particular.
Anyway it was just my thought and I was just pointing out why I thought prices get so high during a fad.

Sorry if I offend.

revhtree · Mar 14, 2008

It's all good now bro, and sorry I took such an offense. We take great pride in trying to be a different kind of forum and being the best we can. It just kinda caught me off guard, but I know what you mean now.

fade2black · Mar 14, 2008

Just to add my $.02, I can't see the craze going away. I jumped over to zoosrus around when that site started years ago and it hasn't seemed to die down much since then. We have a local frag swap coming up and there are a lot of zoos showing up on fragswapper and they go really fast. That tells me people still want them. Anything colorful in this hobby will stay popular. It may fade a little, but there is still demand for them.

reefermadness · Mar 14, 2008

i was hoping that we would realize how much we could help each other out here....Maybe when it warms we can do a chalice swap?!? I already have three or four frags waiting to go...

Hopkins · Mar 14, 2008

Sorry Rev, its over brother. You are going to have to change the name of this website. How about "The Site formerly known as Club-Zoa", or you could do something totally original and change the name to a crazy symbol.

nanu-nanu · Mar 15, 2008

Zoas and Palyz are so great.
You know you want my PPE and Valentines.

revhtree · Mar 15, 2008

Hopkins said:
Sorry Rev, its over brother. You are going to have to change the name of this website. How about "The Site formerly known as Club-Zoa", or you could do something totally original and change the name to a crazy symbol.

Actually.........................................well never mind.................for now.

mfinn · Mar 16, 2008

It's not over for me, but I would have to guess it's over for some.
I see people complaining that no new color morfs are showing up lately and, I'm reading into that, they only like the new colors. Is it, once you have them, you don't like them any more and have to go after something new?
Maybe I'm reading something wrong. No offense.
I've had zoanthids in my tanks since approx. 1990. Didn't have many color options then. Either you had brown ones or green ones. Every once in a while you saw some cinnimon ones.
My first colony of real fancy ones have been my alltime favorites. They were Eagle Eyes. They are still my favs and I still have a couple colonies of them in my tank.
No it's not over for me.

revhtree · Mar 16, 2008

By over I was actually referring to the craze like we have seen in the past year. Zoanthids will never be over for me either or the hobby in general, but the craze/hype is what I am talking about.

What do you think about that?