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Thanks for taking the time to go through the entire thread, very impressive! ;Happy
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Yea I'm embarrassed... here I was all proud of myself and then I go and post those ;Hilarious:mad: I'm looking into getting a Sony A6000 - they're pretty cheap at this point.
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The way I look at it is that probably 90% of the people browsing are using a phone or tablet anyway. Considering Im irish I have plenty else to be embarrassed about!
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Did I do better above? ;HilariousThe way I look at it is that probably 90% of the people browsing are using a phone or tablet anyway. Considering Im irish I have plenty else to be embarrassed about!
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Not knocking your photography skills as every already said our phones look like A and the web page looks like Z
Having said that there is a video on Tidal Gardens channel with the lass talking about taking photos with fish vs corals and camera settings. I'm not a camera person so no idea how it is. Not pushing a channel because I don't (and there are probably a zillion camera channels out there anyway) but saw it when I was looking at a coral care.Good updates and hope all is well!
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Great suggestion! I love Than's channel for sure, one of my favorites. I watched those videos and it's a lot to take in and something I feel like you need to follow along with as you play with the camera settings. I'll have to watch a few more times before my small brain can process the information ;HilariousNot knocking your photography skills as every already said our phones look like A and the web page looks like Z
Good updates and hope all is well!
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We’ll dayyum well done! I wouldn’t mind a camera that can do that but wouldn't spend a ton. If I had any clue about them I’d consider a couple hundred dollar investment but no need for a high end DSLR I’d never pull out of the closet. Does a Best Buy special do that So long as it has 12 or 16 mega pixies?
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What phone do you have? These are from my note9.
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iPhoneX. Its better than older models but cant do what yours did. Or at least I cant!
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So I fragged my first corals over the weekend. I'm a little disappointed to hear these corals aren't worth as much as I thought. Its sad because what I paid but it seems like there is a trend going on that people just want to pay less in general which is equating to small frags? Not sure if this is something you guys see in your local markets but people here seem much more willing to buy a 1/2-3/4" frag for $35-60, than a decent sized frag for $100-150. Not something I can personally understand because I hate small frags, they take forever to get going... anyways I'm interested to hear thoughts on this!
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Nice, Scurvy needs a frag pack! Ship it! ;Woot
Its a tricky market to corner Id say. There's always folks willing to buy but overnight shipping for the average man is cost prohibitive. Locally I think the folks that price frags in that $30-60 window do better than the guys asking $100/150. I think for me Id come planing to scoop up a handful of the cheaper frags and probably wind up leaving with one or two bigger ones too. Having those bread and butter frags to get folks in the door is probably the best play if trying to sell locally. The plain old green/purple aussie hammers/frogs that grow pretty fast etc. What sells and what we want to keep dont always align. GSP, Xenia and Kenya Tree are what the LFS' wil say they move th emost of..
Its a tricky market to corner Id say. There's always folks willing to buy but overnight shipping for the average man is cost prohibitive. Locally I think the folks that price frags in that $30-60 window do better than the guys asking $100/150. I think for me Id come planing to scoop up a handful of the cheaper frags and probably wind up leaving with one or two bigger ones too. Having those bread and butter frags to get folks in the door is probably the best play if trying to sell locally. The plain old green/purple aussie hammers/frogs that grow pretty fast etc. What sells and what we want to keep dont always align. GSP, Xenia and Kenya Tree are what the LFS' wil say they move th emost of..
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Funny you mention GSP because I saw a guy locally post up hand sized people (full grown hands, not baby hands like mine) for $20 and people were getting on him for trying to sell it for anything at all. Statements like "why charge for a weed" were common. Really stupid IMO to roast the guy for trying to get a cheap price when you walk into an LFS and they're selling you an inch of GSP for $20.
On shipping... I quoted a few vendors and pretty much all of them were $90. So you buy this $100 frag and pay $90 in shipping, that is insane to me! The future goal for me when I have more coral is to sell packs and set up a shipping account which seems to be the way to go in terms of selling as you mentioned. A 5 or 10 pack for 250 or so seems to be the sweet spot.
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And if he said free before tossing it in the can he get fried for giving it away or killing it too. I wish folks would just stay out of conversations they aren't adding to but thats a whole other can of worms we'll keep closed for today.
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lol exactly! The Facebook groups can become pretty savage and everyone has something to say. In my opinion this hobby has 3 idiots to every 1 decent person ;Hilarious
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For anyone that cares about my numbers currently:
lab.atiaquaristik.com/share/6282d61bcaf84d6106d4
Also here, https://lab.atiaquaristik.com/timeline/27011 , you can track my tanks trends since I've started the moonshine method!
lab.atiaquaristik.com/share/6282d61bcaf84d6106d4
Also here, https://lab.atiaquaristik.com/timeline/27011 , you can track my tanks trends since I've started the moonshine method!
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