!!!BRING ON THE SCREAMERS cuz I'M GOUGING!!!

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OK well before yesterday, I thought that I may have been gouging a little with this one. In fact, yes I'll say it. I have priced this one high, maybe too high even. But when I see an off color scab of the infamous Jawbreaker, no larger than a thumbtack fetch nearly half a grand, well then I guess I don't really feel all that bad about this one.

And no offense to my friend C. Truly. I'm kind of just exploiting your sale little but here, but only in good jest. And I mean that. People are free to sell or spend their money in any way that want. I truly believe that.

So anyway, on to the goug...er.....I...mean....on to this amazing ten pack! And by amazing I mean rare. And by rare, I mean stuff that I do not frag, and some I have not fraged ever. Coral that I am quietly keeping all to myself. Hoarding if you will, repeatedly turning down offers of far more than what these average out to in this pack.

So to the screamers: Yep, some of these are teeny tiny. Totally aware of that, and you don't have to look that hard to see they were cut just before the pic was taken (which was early this week for what it's worth). Feel free to let me have it, if your just disgusted that someone would charge this much for what you see. I can take it. Or at least I'll put on good face while I try to let it bounce off me. Go ahead! Chime in about how crazy things have gotten since the "good ol' days" when we could get a colony for "next to nuthin". And that its people like me that have turned this once pure and well intentioned hobby into a greed driven blood bath, championed by nothing but crooked vultures preying on the deep pocketed naive.

But, here it is. It really comes down to just this. Captive sps, that are not only extra pretty,(or at least have a pretty name) but also coveted my the masses, have value that sometimes exceeds comprehension. The thread I saw yesterday has proven this to me beyond the shadow of a doubt, if you'll pardon the idiom. So look at it this way. For almost half the price of this ten pack you could've picked up a near centimeter high niblet of a frag, that will never look like the pic we all drooled over a couple years ago, but is still somehow coveted tremendous by its name only. And again I'm just having a little fun with this and I have no animosity towards anyone involved in that sale. Maybe deep down I'm just dangerously envious of a brand that can attract that kind of attention, and the only way I an combat it, is with absolute and unrelenting smarm. yeah, must be that.

Ultimately I just want to put this high priced pack into perspective, and give you a perfect excuse to justify opening up that billfold just a little bit wider for this one. If I'm stirring the pot a little too much, and just sound like a moron, then bring on the screamers. Tell me how parlor and gimmicky this all really is, and if you can get all these for lots less, like everyone on FB, then do it. By all means. You see, the thing about forums is that you have to stay relevant somehow. And if I've managed to keep your attention through all of this drivel and up till this moment, then I have succeeded in that at the very least. I don't really put too much thought into these write ups, more off the cuff freewheeling then power prose. But realize this, 1000.00 even, still sits all of these frags cozily at less than 100.00 each. I've been offered three times that for the cyclops alone, believe it or not. More than once. So blah blah blah. Blah blah bah blah....


999.00 shipped

1. Inlands Cyclops
2. Reef Raft Orange Passion
3. Brads Insane Defuego
4. Reefers Cove Poison Envy
5. Sanjays' Leprechauns Beard
6. SunnyX Sunset
7. BC's Bluest teni ever!
8. I eat two oranges a day milli
9. Ricks Dragon Slayer
10. Pink Dragon Tails


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Awesome pack. I've been waiting for a while to make any new purchases after a costly tank breakdown and move. Battlecorals is at the top of my list. Hesitant to pull the trigger, I need a couple more weeks to make sure everything is where it needs to be, but this has really got my attention.
 

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Don't worry guys, when I got this from Adam a few years back it wasn't much either.
Yet it was close to the pic Adam send me in size :rolleyes: but be aware if they make a turn for the AWESOMENESS!!
Thanks Adam.

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Don't worry guys, when I got this from Adam a few years back it wasn't much either.
Yet it was close to the pic Adam send me in size :rolleyes: but be aware if they make a turn for the AWESOMENESS!!
Thanks Adam.

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That thing is amazing!
 

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Adam, Reading your post for some reason a Linkin Park song was playing in my head. "I'm one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break" ........you had me at Old School. Lights are in route(went a little old school and a little new with a halide led combo), tank has been cycling for months. My display tank will have a Battle Branch set aside just for you buddy. Get ready cause I "CAN'T WAIT" to get some "Battle Beauties " in my tank.
 
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Adam, Reading your post for some reason a Linkin Park song was playing in my head. "I'm one step closer to the edge, and I'm about to break" ........you had me at Old School. Lights are in route(went a little old school and a little new with a halide led combo), tank has been cycling for months. My display tank will have a Battle Branch set aside just for you buddy. Get ready cause I "CAN'T WAIT" to get some "Battle Beauties " in my tank.


Battle branch! I love it. Sounds like a plan to me!
 

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Not going to scream here, not one bit. Some of these may not be my cup of tea but you dangle the right 10 pack combo in front of me and 100 a frag is a deal lol. So for someone else this may be their cup of tea and I'm sure they will happily shell out one large for it. I don't see this as gouging at all, but I will say this will separate the men from the boys. All I can say is GLWS, and keep posting up all these baller corals:D
 
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Not going to scream here, not one bit. Some of these may not be my cup of tea but you dangle the right 10 pack combo in front of me and 100 a frag is a deal lol. So for someone else this may be their cup of tea and I'm sure they will happily shell out one large for it. I don't see this as gouging at all, but I will say this will separate the men from the boys. All I can say is GLWS, and keep posting up all these baller corals:D

Awe, that's nice of you. And deep down, my sentiments as well. I mean you've got single tiny off color acro frags fetching 2-4-8oo.00. By comparison, there is nothing really out of line here. Not that I'd like to consider that a standard but still, it's happening. Maybe 2k would have brought on the screamers. Seems Like most of you are actually with me on this one lol!
 

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Yup, I can easily put together a list of your acros that I want that I'd gladly pay one large for a 10 pack, too bad they're never available. 4 of those are in this pack lol.....let me know when you are ready to frag the other 6;)
 

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