reefboy
Valuable Member
ok I wanted to poll everyone does a coral have more want power if it costs more or do you go off what the coral looks like as it seems these days unless its 300 a frag its not desirable as a collector piece.
what makes a coral
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aquarius77
¡ Viva la revolución!
I go off what it looks like, I am not a collector in any sense of the word though. I would not pay 300$ for a coral if you had a gun to my head. I dont follow the fads and my interest are in sps, they do not change with the majority lol. Ill buy a brownout for next to nothing and hope for the best but thats just me... i dont know if you are looking only for collectors opinions or not for sure so i figured id throw it out there fwiw.
For me it is all about what I like. Be it 5 bucks or 300 bucks. If I like it enough I’ll play.
Some of my favorite corals cost me very little. You have to remember that most of the fad corals are driven by in most cases a single high dollar sale. All it takes is selling one piece for a lot of money and right away everyone jumps on board saying
"If it cost that much it must be special, I want it to"
A lot of times said coral is not even that great yet people go crazy for it just because its the new thing to have. You can apply the same thing to most inner circle type hobbies. When you’re in this hobby it seems huge but in the grand scheme this hobby is small potatoes. When dealing with close smaller groups of people it does not take much to set off a trend.
Some of my favorite corals cost me very little. You have to remember that most of the fad corals are driven by in most cases a single high dollar sale. All it takes is selling one piece for a lot of money and right away everyone jumps on board saying
"If it cost that much it must be special, I want it to"
A lot of times said coral is not even that great yet people go crazy for it just because its the new thing to have. You can apply the same thing to most inner circle type hobbies. When you’re in this hobby it seems huge but in the grand scheme this hobby is small potatoes. When dealing with close smaller groups of people it does not take much to set off a trend.
H@rry
Troll
I go by the looks of a coral. If it appeals to me and I have a place to put it I buy if, but my limit is $60. The one time I deviated from that maximum was when I saw a white with blue tip acro at a LFS. I paid $90 for it. Turns out it was a "wild caught" specimen. In 30 days it was brown. In 60 days it was dead.
Same... my favorite corals are from the famalies Flabellidae and Dendrophylliidae, which will range you $5 for a Tubastrea faulkneri to $1,500 for a Rhizotrochus typus... and I'd love them both the same in their own right
People should buy what YOU like, not what's cool, or whats hot, or what other people have, or what's expensive, etc.
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reefboy
Valuable Member
I agree it just seems if its not high priced then most think its to good to be true or there's somthing there missing I have had a few corals not sell when priced low but then sell once I raised them made no sense to me.
sr71
Active Member
I think the chalice craze is out of control and I've been kind of turned off by it, haven't bought any frags for almost 2 months now. I've seen a lot of chalice coming in, some are nice and unique but some are just plain ugly. Vendors are charging an arm and a leg even for the ugly ones. I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
Oh huge props to Keith at EliteReefs for making it possible for EVERYONE to enjoy this hobby.
Oh huge props to Keith at EliteReefs for making it possible for EVERYONE to enjoy this hobby.
pakora
Papa-Kora!
I plan on being in the hobby for as long as possible but that being said currently I have a small tank (10 gallon display, 10 gallon frag). This limitation is due lack of space for my dream tank (300 gallon). Until I become situated where I can get that tank Im not going further than what I have. SO since im limited in the space I try to aim for corals that have some demand for them. The ones in demand naturally are priced high so I end up paying a lot. My reason for this is that If I need to bail out I'll be able to recoup some of my expenditure OR If need be I can have some weight to offer in terms of trading. Im pretty much at my limit right now as far as my tank space is concerned so I wont be purchasing anything more one my space is filled up. But yeah man as somebody stated earlier you gotta pay to play. I wish I had joined this hobby when everything was dirt cheap like members have said. Anyway cool hobby and I love everything I am able to obtain!
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pakora
Papa-Kora!
Sorry to veer from the topic but nice piece! I got the piece in my avatar from TEC also. Its definitely one of my top three favorite pieces in my tank! A friend and I nicknamed it Krang LOL (it glows so nice)
How funny the last frag I bought was TEC Watermelon at a great price by the way. Thanks Jody. That sucker is a sloooooow grower.
sr71
Active Member
sorry for going OT but really, the EME or MH or what ever it is on top of the TEC WM is a pig and grow really fast. I do feed it because the feeder tactical are always out and the TEC WM I've haven't seen the feeders out.
Ladipyg
Saltwater Diva
For me it's more of the hunt for the unknown then high dollar pieces. For those I usually trade some of my high end corals..then we both feel like we got a good deal.
A couple of friends call me the "Queen Hunter of Browned Out Corals". I love to take a chance on browned out corals and see what happens when they color up in my tank. I've had some really plain zoas and palys morph into some bright polyps. And I think LPS and SPS are always worth taking a chance on. There used to be a place close to me that sold TLC corals for like $5-$10 a piece. I would clean them out everytime I went in just to see what changes they would make.
Here is a picture of a coral I bought that was dark, rusty brown when I got it...within 3 months it looked like this....
A couple of friends call me the "Queen Hunter of Browned Out Corals". I love to take a chance on browned out corals and see what happens when they color up in my tank. I've had some really plain zoas and palys morph into some bright polyps. And I think LPS and SPS are always worth taking a chance on. There used to be a place close to me that sold TLC corals for like $5-$10 a piece. I would clean them out everytime I went in just to see what changes they would make.
Here is a picture of a coral I bought that was dark, rusty brown when I got it...within 3 months it looked like this....
AquaWorldPSC
Well-Known Member
I like good valued good looking coral that i can grow out and sell to pay for the frag. So I am in between.
Really I think for most people its a mixture of both of the options. I'm not going to pay $500 for a 1/2" frag of something I think is mediocre just because it has lineage to some famous propagator or is LE (and they DO have some ugly "LE" corals out there for unreasonable prices). One coral that I'm not too fond of is the Purple Monster and its slow-growth coupled with high price, but still its on my list of "To Buy" because of how many people want it (Although I'm not going to go out of my way and pay extra for it). The Grafted Simplex is another one, while it is extremely cool that Chlorophyll Grafting took place on accident, it doesn't look like too stunning of a piece for how rare and expensive it is.
Mariner
NARC Reefer
I definitely just go by how I like the looks of the coral. A lot of the stuff I really like is not even on the radar for most reefers -- Xenia, closed brains, Monti caps, and bubble coral (plerogyra). :tongue:
Mariner
Mariner
