Am i ripping myself off majorly here ?

[RVA REEF]

I've had this coral in several tanks under metal halides, t5 w/reefbrites, and a few different led fixtures, it will look slightly different with lighting but its generally green/tan/brown base and branches, and the tips get blue/purple. It grows extremely fast and has been around a long time so its not rare, you have found a very nice lfs if they are giving you 200 for that. lol even ora lists it as being brown in the description
https://www.orafarm.com/product/tri-color-valida/

 

[SaltISlife]

Well here they are.. Not happy about the goniapora. It looked great in the store but i guess the arms were blocking its stony body. Not that its retracted i can see its half dead.

The orange fungia looks good though. Tentacles are already coming out after only 2 min in the tank.


Not sure what ima do about this gonoapora though i think ima call the store and say hey half its skeleton is dead and was hidden under the polyp extention in the store.

Guess for now all i can do is wait And maybe spot feed it.

 

[SaltISlife]

I've had this coral in several tanks under metal halides, t5 w/reefbrites, and a few different led fixtures, it will look slightly different with lighting but its generally green/tan/brown base and branches, and the tips get blue/purple. It grows extremely fast and has been around a long time so its not rare, you have found a very nice lfs if they are giving you 200 for that. lol even ora lists it as being brown in the description
https://www.orafarm.com/product/tri-color-valida/

Its the size my friend. This one is bigger than a cantalope. Why does everything have to be strawberry yunicorn dingleberry named and finger tipped sized to be worth 200$ lol.


Also that tricolor looks nothing like mine.

This is what mine looks like and this is a tricolor btw. Where is the brown in this pic or my pic. You truely must be colorblind. Its more common than you think colorblindness

own ?

 

[RVA REEF]

because usually the strawberry yuincorn dingleberry tipped frag has way more color.

 

[SaltISlife]

because usually the strawberry yuincorn dingleberry tipped frag has way more color.

Its not brown get some of these plz

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[Randomwhiteguy89]

Every lfs I’ve ever dealt with has given me the same rates if not close to it 50% store credit or 25% cash I would say your getting a reasonable deal and like it was stated before if your trading something you don’t really want for something you do that’s all that counts don’t concern yourself with how much money he’s going to make he’s running a business that’s his job

 

[RVA REEF]

i would go back and complain about the goni and see how much credit he gives you in the future lol

 

[Randomwhiteguy89]

Tip for future purchases when buying Goniopora or alveapora pretty sure I spelled that wrong lol ask your lfs if they can do a sweep by it with there hand or a light blow with a turkey baster so the polyps retract For you to see the base any descent lfs will have no problem doing this I have asked many times in the past and every time they have Obliged

 

[SaltISlife]

i would go back and complain about the goni and see how much credit he gives you in the future lol

Seriously though. What is youre issue ?

 

[SaltISlife]

Tip for future purchases when buying Goniopora or alveapora pretty sure I spelled that wrong lol ask your lfs if they can do a sweep by it with there hand or a light blow with a turkey baster so the polyps retract For you to see the base any descent lfs will have no problem doing this I have asked many times in the past and every time they have Obliged

Thanks i didnt know that as ots my first goniapora. Hopefully itll recover. The skeleton looks white too so fresh loss. When i dipped it a small asterina starfish came off. So i wonder if it was eating it.

Well see.. i have yet to meet a coral i cant Keep in my tank. And with the 30 min its been in my tank its polyps are coming out now very slowely.

 

[Bfragale]

Congratulations on new corals my friend! Hope the Goni recovers, I’ve had a few in bad shape that totally came back, so I think it’s a good chance it will recover. I’m no expert with Goni, or anything for that matter lol- but in my experience if the Goni is happy with water parameters and lighting/flow - they seem to heal Nicely.
Good luck - thanks for sharing the photos!

 

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