What are Red PE worth?

[mathew26]

I bought a nice size frag of about 15 polops of what i now know as RPE. They were sold to me as plain red button polops. I was just wondering what these normally go for per polop or a frag of that size(15 heads). Thanks for the help.

 

[macawmagic]

if its the TRUE rpe...then i'd say 10-15/polyp. but if they're the ones everyone thinks are rpe...then 1-2/polyp

 

[Brad Syphus]

Do they look like these with the green mouths? I started with six polyps from my LFS almost 3 years ago. 45 bucks.

 

[PolandSpring]

What do the True RPE look like?

 

[macawmagic]

true rpe are the ones posted above...but there are some that people sell as rpe which aren't the same coloration.

 

[gflat65]

The main difference between the tRPE's and the others is that tRPE's have a darkened circle around the mouth instead of the same color throughout. Generally, the red is a deeper and usually redder color, too. Similar differences between GPE's and tGPE's, OPE's (if they are actually different than RPE's under more/different light), EO's, etc.

 

[reefboy]

 

[Aloha Corals]

Brad, that is a bad butt colony of TRPEs! Bravo!

 

[PolandSpring]

oh..so then i have the true rpe
But mine have like extra frills that are white...sorta like how the purple hornet has dark and yellow frills, my rpe has white and red frills then with the dark purple around the mouth and the green mouth..They used to be normal but then changed when i had a problem with my tank and since then they have been growing with extra white frills...lol

 

[mfinn]

True RPE's

 

[Brad Syphus]

 

[mathew26]

I appreciate the responses. Here is a pic of what i have and i will let you be the judge if they are true RPE or not. I boutght this frag from a LFS as "red button polops" i paid $15 for this frag. It has about 15 heads on it. sorry for the shots.

 

[BlazinNano]

They look like TRPE to me. But I am not an expert by any means.

 

[thanhreef]

Here is a photo of True RPE on Juicy Corals

 

[aerius007]

oh..so then i have the true rpe
But mine have like extra frills that are white...

The ones I had did that when they were very close to the light.

 

[650-IS350]

RPE, you can also noticably see the rays/lines on the disk, besides the dark circle that is around the green mouth.

 

[MentalDragon]

Darn... I guess I was sold an imposter! Hmmm... upset now. Mine have the green mouths but all red... no black outline.