IMO, the sticks are out for the trend this year.
Reason is that every vendor has these nice sticks now days and the market got flooded with them as they all want a piece of it.
Just run around the live sales and all the rare high end priced sticks just don't fly anymore.
For that I will say that 2017 will be the year of the LPS, I see the Euphyllias, Goni's, blasto's and the Galaxea coral making the 2017 year their year.
Especially the Galaxea corals are far from gone.
We all know the purple and the green Galaxea, but what about the rainbow, tri-color, yellow and the red Galaxea.
I picked up a few of the last for at my LFS, the owner told me he will not sell these cause they are aggressive and YES they are aggressive.
If you keep them low on the sand and away from other corals you shouldn't have a problem.
He brought in two weeks ago a few colonies and fragged them up................... well they are all gone and is looking for more.
They are inexpensive and look like little mini torches, for less than $15 you can have already a frag as we speak, that is when the demand will go up the price will be going up as well.
The Euphyllias never were gone but with a few new species I have seen, like the rainbow frogspawn and rainbow hammer they will be on their way back.
We all know the red Goni from ORA that does so well but what about all the new species you see coming on the market, multi color gonis with crazy names for less than $20.
The name of the game in 2017 IMO is how do I put together a awesome reef for less money that a Birthday Acro or a WD stick.
I sold off all my SPS for a lot of money (it's like the stock market) I had a feeling that prices will drop on the some rare pieces.
I filled in just for the holidays the 202 Diesel tank up for less than $500 in cheap but attractive corals and most locals think my tank looks nicer than before as it's a example that you can have a amazing reef for cheap.
Pics coming soon.................. so hold your horses
