Platygyra or another "brain coral"?

[livinlifeinBKK]

Score!!!!!

I'd say I got a pretty good deal! Funny thing is, we get a lot of very similar corals and they usually go for around $75 or a little less. Here we call them doughnut corals or Meat Corals.

 

[Goaway]

I'd say I got a pretty good deal! Funny thing is, we get a lot of very similar corals and they usually go for around $75 or a little less. Here we call them doughnut corals or Meat Corals.

Yup, thats a common name here. Just a lot of lps get called meat coral or donuts.

Nothings cheap for us.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Yup, thats a common name here. Just a lot of lps get called meat coral or donuts.

Nothings cheap for us.

Here are a few examples and their prices...1000 is about $30 roughly so 1800 is around $54. What do you think of the one labeled as a Lobo btw? Do you think it really is a Lobo?

 

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Here are a few examples and their prices...1000 is about $30 roughly so 1800 is around $54. What do you think of the one labeled as a Lobo btw? Do you think it really is a Lobo?

This looks like a symphyllia to me.

But let me edit: symphyillias were added back to lobophyllia family. Yes, its a lobo.

I want one like that :*(

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

This looks like a symphyllia to me.

They're asking like 550 for it haha

 

[Goaway]

They're asking like 550 for it haha

I never seen one that nice in colir, ever.... they might be right.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

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I never seen one that nice in colir, ever.... they might be right.

That's about $15...

 

[Goaway]

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That's about $15...

Ohh, i gotta convert to usd dont i?

Now thats salt in my wounds....
An acantho here cost 20,000+ baht

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Ohh, i gotta convert to usd dont i?

Now thats salt in my wounds....
An acantho here cost 20,000+ baht

Haha that's why I gave you the conversion rate! All the prices in the pics were in Thai baht so i told you the price of the last one in Thai baht...

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

While it may technically be a Lobo, corals are priced because of their perceived rarity but also simply due to unusual colors. Therefore even if it's a regular Lobo, that particular piece should be more than 550 baht...
I'd imagine in America or Europe it would easily sell for hundreds.

 

[KrisReef]

Next you need to find

I'd say I got a pretty good deal! Funny thing is, we get a lot of very similar corals and they usually go for around $75 or a little less. Here we call them doughnut corals or Meat Corals.

BUY ME NOW! I think there are better opportunities out there

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Next you need to find

BUY ME NOW! I think there are better opportunities out there

I'd tend to agree...i think anyone with common sense would as well.

 

[Goaway]

Next you need to find

BUY ME NOW! I think there are better opportunities out there

No kidden right?

 

[Goaway]

While it may technically be a Lobo, corals are priced because of their perceived rarity but also simply due to unusual colors. Therefore even if it's a regular Lobo, that particular piece should be more than 550 baht...
I'd imagine in America or Europe it would easily sell for hundreds.

Yes.. you guys get some nice colors.

 

[KrisReef]

I've been looking at these for awhile and had one secured for $500 but I couldn't bring myself to spend the money on the vanity piece. I'm glad others can get them, but I'm more on board for prices like @livinlifeinBKK is looking at. Very nice score and not insane prices for something collected out of the ocean.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Yes.. you guys get some nice colors.

That's one thing I love about the shops here. Since a lot of the corals (both SPS and LPS) are wild collected you never know what may pop up for sale. It's so unpredictable! Also, imo there's just something special about having so many unique pieces to choose from and once one is gone, it's gone. I prefer this to shops elsewhere where you're presented with 25 identical tiny frags all in nice even rows. Until you get to the corals that can't be aquacultured. (I'm leaving price out of the equation.)

 

[Goaway]

That's one thing I love about the shops here. Since a lot of the corals (both SPS and LPS) are wild collected you never know what may pop up for sale. It's so unpredictable! Also, imo there's just something special about having so many unique pieces to choose from and once one is gone, it's gone. I prefer this to shops elsewhere where you're presented with 25 identical tiny frags all in nice even rows. Until you get to the corals that can't be aquacultured. (I'm leaving price out of the equation.)

Yuh, we get frags for the price of a whole coral. It's our fault.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

I've been looking at these for awhile and had one secured for $500 but I couldn't bring myself to spend the money on the vanity piece. I'm glad others can get them, but I'm more on board for prices like @livinlifeinBKK is looking at. Very nice score and not insane prices for something collected out of the ocean.

Nothing justifies a $500 price tag aside from the fact that someone will pay it. What I mean is that it's not the cost of transportation, payment of the divers, license payments, or anything like that which makes it impossible to sell for less than that.

 

[livinlifeinBKK]

Yuh, we get frags for the price of a whole coral. It's our fault.

I hate that so much. People say "if it's too expensive don't buy it". It shouldn't be so expensive in the first place though!

 

[Kmst80]

Here is the big BUT....so an acantho is around 2000 baht what equals 57$. The average Thai montly income is 39000 baht and that's 1130$. That's 13560 a year. The average Us Income is 53490, so 4 times more. Same in Australia. Here it is 69888 au$ a year. Now those coral prices fall into order a bit more too. I love the acantho too but the prices scare me...