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[Howard1234a]

This is a $70 maricultured colony. Someone please explain to me how these frags are worth 2x-4x the cost of the entire colony.

Nice colony! $70 was a steal.

 

[Smite]

This is a $70 maricultured colony. Someone please explain to me how these frags are worth 2x-4x the cost of the entire colony.

This is a great piece. Was it colored up that way when you purchased it? I was hot on milli's at first, now tenuis take the cake all day.

 

[Howard1234a]

This is a great piece. Was it colored up that way when you purchased it? I was hot on milli's at first, now tenuis take the cake all day.

No kidding. I would pay much more for that piece.

 

[Jlobes]

No kidding. I would pay much more for that piece.

thats the price, " a few years ago".
we all know how things have changed in just a few years.

 

[Howard1234a]

This is a great piece. Was it colored up that way when you purchased it? I was hot on milli's at first, now tenuis take the cake all day.

What is the yellow coral behind the tenius? Looks like a nice milli.

 

[Pete polyp]

Yes that was a couple years ago and the prices for maricultured acro have not changed much. They have increased by $10. The $299 is not a maricultured piece, not a tenuis and is 4x the size of a normal maricultured acro hence the difference in price. That's an ultra aussie piece and you're going to pay more for it. Then one pictured of mine came in colored up exactly the way you see it and that picture was taken within 2 weeks of me having it. I know this because the abro behind it didn't make it two weeks. The milli behind it was an outstanding piece from reef pets. There's still plenty of maricultured pieces priced from $60-$80 on there all the time. The point I'm trying to make here is that vendors are getting run of the mill maricultured acro, slapping a name on it and charging a HUGE price for little nubs. This isn't the first regular Indonesian maricultured piece that fell into the hands of the right vendor and sold off for hundreds per 1/2" nub. Every now and then they do get one in that morphs and becomes something unique that might fetch a higher price but it still started as just another $70 maricultured piece. The pictures I have seen so far off the acro this thread is about don't even spark my interest at all. If I ended up with a maricultured acro that eventually colored up to what these frags look like I would end up trading the colony to a lfs for some rods food or a box of salt. To each their own though. If this acro tickles your fancy and you want it go buy it, I'm not going to judge you.

 

[Sabellafella]

Yes that was a couple years ago and the prices for maricultured acro have not changed much. They have increased by $10. The $299 is not a maricultured piece, not a tenuis and is 4x the size of a normal maricultured acro hence the difference in price. That's an ultra aussie piece and you're going to pay more for it. Then one pictured of mine came in colored up exactly the way you see it and that picture was taken within 2 weeks of me having it. I know this because the abro behind it didn't make it two weeks. The milli behind it was an outstanding piece from reef pets. There's still plenty of maricultured pieces priced from $60-$80 on there all the time. The point I'm trying to make here is that vendors are getting run of the mill maricultured acro, slapping a name on it and charging a HUGE price for little nubs. This isn't the first regular Indonesian maricultured piece that fell into the hands of the right vendor and sold off for hundreds per 1/2" nub. Every now and then they do get one in that morphs and becomes something unique that might fetch a higher price but it still started as just another $70 maricultured piece. The pictures I have seen so far off the acro this thread is about don't even spark my interest at all. If I ended up with a maricultured acro that eventually colored up to what these frags look like I would end up trading the colony to a lfs for some rods food or a box of salt. To each their own though. If this acro tickles your fancy and you want it go buy it, I'm not going to judge you.

Its crazy, im not saying any names but i ran into a mari from a friend from an lfs that i payed 40 bucks for (can only imagin how much they payed for it) its ben 4 months and its still alive thank god. I was recently flipping threw vendors and found the same piece that theyre charging 450$ for a 1/2 pinky nail , i really would love to post side by side but i just cant because the sponser takes care of me nd would be wrong on my part

 

[Sabellafella]

This is the number 1 and only thing that i dont like about this hobby especially the fact that everyone that is in this hobby are the most generous kind people youll ever meet but then again theyll most generously rob your pockets nd not feel bad about it because "its buisness"

 

[Pete polyp]

This acro sold today. You might wanna say "it doesn't look that special" from looking at their picture but I know the potential of this acro because I have one. People have identified it as reef raft pretty in pink, but it's just another maricultured tenuis to me. And $79.99 isn't far away from the $69.99 I paid for it two years ago.

And after a couple months under the right conditions it will turn into this. Pictured under 1 coral plus, 1 purple plus and 1 12000k t5 with a Samsung Galaxy s2. No white balance tricks or anything going on here.

Add 3 blue plus to those bulbs and you have this

 

[Pete polyp]

Somehow the pictures posted out of order, but I think everyone can tell which are which

 

[jasonandsarah]

thats the price, " a few years ago".
we all know how things have changed in just a few years.

You can still get large colonies of mari's for good prices. They are a crap shoot though, the color will change and you always risk it looking great for a year and then RTN'ing the whole colony overnight.

 

[jasonandsarah]

This is a $150 Mari from DD (it's bigger then a normal mari imo plus you always pay more for the "blue tenius") and look at the colors it had when it came in! It's lost a lot of those colors but I'm praying they'll come back over time. I still love this piece and trying to find ones that are special intrigues me more then anything. So far every piece I've cut off this colony I've given away.

 

[Russ265]

I found this pic

looks water shocked to me. like they put it in a sterile 40 breeder for a week before taking a pic.

 

[Pete polyp]

This is a $150 Mari from DD (it's bigger then a normal mari imo plus you always pay more for the "blue tenius") and look at the colors it had when it came in! It's lost a lot of those colors but I'm praying they'll come back over time. I still love this piece and trying to find ones that are special intrigues me more then anything. So far every piece I've cut off this colony I've given away.

Are you sure that's a maricultured? The growth suggests it's a wild piece. Did it have a concrete base attached to it when you got it?

 

[jasonandsarah]

Are you sure that's a maricultured? The growth suggests it's a wild piece. Did it have a concrete base attached to it when you got it?

No concrete base, but if you look at DD maricultured section there's a lot of these now a days. I think they slice larger colonies into 2 therefore removing the concrete base. Just a guess?

 

[Pete polyp]

I don't think so. If they're putting it in the maricultured section they more than likely made the mistake of putting it in the wrong section. Your piece looks like a wild Australian piece. Very nice pick up too!