Who else is over the bounce corals?

Kershaw · Feb 20, 2017

Is it just me alone in the hobby that thinks bounce corals are way over priced and look terrible? I am sure some people like them but how much of it is just to say you have one? i prefer lps and sps. And I have seen some amazing softy tanks. But I think bounce corals are mushrooms with warts and allot of the time they look better with out the bounce. I don't mean to offend anyone just surprised how fast these became popular and for the price.

prsnlty · Feb 20, 2017

Kershaw said:
Is it just me alone in the hobby that thinks bounce corals are way over priced and look terrible? I am sure some people like them but how much of it is just to say you have one? i prefer lps and sps. And I have seen some amazing softy tanks. But I think bounce corals are mushrooms with warts and allot of the time they look better with out the bounce. I don't mean to offend anyone just surprised how fast these became popular and for the price.

It's a fad but in coral fashion just like named zoas and chalice. I agree although I don't think they look terrible, they are being over glamourized and over priced. JMO

ritter6788 · Feb 20, 2017

I'm a sps guy but I saw a huge bounce in person and couldn't stop looking at it. They are amazing corals.

I do think the price is too high and they will be coming down soon. There are several frags for sale everyday on this forum. Just a matter of time before they are less than $100 a frag and even lower after that.

Rory's Reef · Feb 20, 2017

I like my sticks.... and some LPS too I suppose lol. I've never been into softies much, but I've seen some pretty cool softie tanks. However, I just cannot see the appeal of the Bounce mushrooms. Maybe if I saw one in person I'd think differently but I doubt it.

Kershaw · Feb 20, 2017

I don't think they would bother me if the price wasn't so high. I still wouldn't buy one. I know to each is own. I see the same ones being passed around the locals here on face book. For some reason I the acros that have large price tags makes more sense but I stick to easy acros and montis

coralvault · Feb 20, 2017

Question is have you actually even seen a large one or even a large colony of OG bounce mushrooms? They are one of the brightest coral I have ever seen especially the bright yellow. It's something that even the lay person will stare at for a while(and the first thing anyone notices). As for the other "bounce" mushrooms that have dull colors, I do not find those attractive just because there is a bubble on a mushroom. But that florescent yellow OG bounce is very impressive.

Chris Adams · Feb 20, 2017

I do not have a bounce nor have a seen 1 in person.
However I enjoy all corals.

A shroom tank can be just as amazing as any SPS tank. The pics of some of the bounces are amazing.

Every coral has their over priced items but the price does not make them ugly

spidercrab · Feb 20, 2017

Large bounce is a showstopper. Need sunglasses and xanax.

spidercrab · Feb 20, 2017

I am honestly sick of sps selling at 1/4 inch for 400$ and it's just a photoshopped red planet that could be bought for 5$(Photoshop is just ramapant with acros)... Also the names are getting ridiculous there are getting to be wayyy too many named acro and some acro colonies now have 10 different names for the same colony.

Kershaw · Feb 20, 2017

I am not saying the price makes it ugly. I have never been a fan of shrooms regardless. I had lots in my first tank. And there are some softys I really like. I have seen some type of bounce coral in person and yes the color was intense. How ever it was very small. I love hammer corals and yet I have no disre to own a neon green one even the brightest and most colorful. I see lots of corals with crazy price tags. i think coral prices and even equipment prices are out of hand. But oh well I'll keep paying it to stay in hobby. Again I did not start the thread to start an argument, just wondering how these things got so popular. I am a mixed reef guy. I like a little of all types.

Bknip · Feb 20, 2017

Agreed just in the past two years prices have sky rocketed.

spidercrab · Feb 20, 2017

Ya they aren't impressive in my oppinion until they are 6" plus

yellojello · Feb 21, 2017

Supply and demand. Just curious, what are some the expensive corals that have stayed expensive for many years?

Bdog4u2 · Feb 21, 2017

The only reason they are popular is people thinking the can get one and make a few bucks off it. I have a bounce myself and have given several frags of them to my friends for free. to me this is a hobby I love and if I start selling frags then it becomes a job and I already have one of those.

Macdaddynick1 · Feb 21, 2017

I'm not sure how to put this, But human beings value things differently, this applies to everything including money, life, health, fitness, family time, happiness. For example two different people will value a single dollar differently. There are people that will look at any of us thinking that we are crazy for spending so much money on a little bucket of water with some weird plants inside. Yet they will go out and buy a $1,000 pair of shoes , or go out for a dinner in a fancy restaurant and spend 500 on a meal. Also Remember... this crappy painting is valued at 2.3 million.

minus9 · Feb 21, 2017

When I first got into this hobby, the only names I knew were scientific names, (something I still use) mixed with a few common names. But again, that was the 80's and 90's. The only common names were stags, tabling, bottle brush, etc..... Zoathids, were, well, zoathids, not sunny d, purple eye Darth zombie eater. Mushrooms were mushrooms, Rhodactis, actinodiscus, ricordea, amplexidiscus. Now it's tropical this, sunset mystic rainbow that.
Whatever, I'm going back to the interwebs for some fake news.

Where's the Mic drop emoji?

mort · Feb 21, 2017

I dislike them and the "named" coral industry, simply because it now costs ten times the price for one polyp/frag of something that I could have bought a colony of years ago before someone decided cutting it up or selecting a single polyp due to its slightly different attributes.

nwkermit · Feb 21, 2017

I have one and under blue light it looks amazing. I got my WWC OG awhile back and now it's about 3". But as you can see it just Poland light up the tank.

AcroNem · Feb 21, 2017

I'm over them. There was one point I had looked at a baby wwc bounce and thought maybe I'll buy that. About 5 seconds later I could have slapped myself, what a stupid move that would have been. As a lot of you know I identify everything with their scientific name, not their hype name. So the nerd side of me kicked in and told me that's simply a mushroom in the genus Rhodactis that's developed bulbous pseudo tentacles and it can happen with many others than just that one why don't you get a colony and do it that way instead of spending 600 on a little dot, and that was enough of that.

Chris Adams · Feb 21, 2017

Kershaw said:
I am not saying the price makes it ugly. I have never been a fan of shrooms regardless. I had lots in my first tank. And there are some softys I really like. I have seen some type of bounce coral in person and yes the color was intense. How ever it was very small. I love hammer corals and yet I have no disre to own a neon green one even the brightest and most colorful. I see lots of corals with crazy price tags. i think coral prices and even equipment prices are out of hand. But oh well I'll keep paying it to stay in hobby. Again I did not start the thread to start an argument, just wondering how these things got so popular. I am a mixed reef guy. I like a little of all types.

I see where you are coming from.

For a lot of us there is a sticker shock.
Corals are like anything else in life. I have seen million dollar homes which I would not trade my house for

. Unless I could sell it then get my old house back

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.