Do people still trade corals in this hobby?

[Reefer Matt]

I trade frags all the time with local reefers! It's a part of what we do at Southeast MI Reef!

 

[Tired]

Waiting for it to stop being horribly, horribly hot in my area to do a coral trade with someone. Gotta hit that chunk of time where it's cool enough to ship, but also not into the holiday shipping rush yet.

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I’ve only traded twice in my ten years of reefing. It’s a lot of fun, I wish there more local swaps going on.

 

[Tegridy Reef]

I do like to trade but I wish there was a way of protection of some one not sending there corals or there’s dying and not getting stuff replaced as in doa

 

[kiran]

I do like to trade but I wish there was a way of protection of some one not sending there corals or there’s dying and not getting stuff replaced as in doa

I think that's why it's best to trade locally.

 

[coralconor]

I’d love to trade just gotta make social medias I guess. I’m not on Facebook or anything

 

[Tegridy Reef]

I think that's why it's best to trade locally.

Yeah but I wanted to post this because I get offered trades all the time and reef to reef has rules to protect buyers by using good and service but would interesting to see if they can come up with something for trades maybe they do but I’m not aware. Like a deposit on both side for the trade

 

[Jhav89]

I have never really had the opportunity present itself. I am completely open to it though!

 

[ying yang]

Would be up for swapping corals with someone local when I'm ready to swap,apart from nuclear green palys ,I not really got anything of any real size to swap and wouldn't dare just swap a little 2cm of a nub off a coral,as just think that's just daft lol.
Only 1.5 years Into owning a reef tank and see lots of excited reefers with their little nubs off corals and my local lfs also sell little small frags and bought a few little 3-8 branch sps frags and 2 month's ( green and red on same plug) which where like 5cmx8cm size each but wouldn't buy any smaller than these if I'm honest .
And not into the newest hottest coral at the moment as would just rather wait a year or 2 and buy it when cheaper and more popular as more than likely get more for your money,same with clothes,not got a problem buying last years stock for 50% off the price,my mrs calls me a tight yorkshire man but I call it wise not tight ha ha ^_^

 

[reaper93]

Only reason I don't is because I don't have enough coral growth to be able to frag and trade yet! In the future I would love to tho

 

[Griev]

In my experience 90% of my DMs when I list something for trade start with interest and swapping of pictures, then asking for a time and place, and next thing you know they get kidnapped by big coral to keep their online vendors in business. That or we've got a lot of weirdos who just want to catfish coral pictures. Either way I hardly ever have anyone actually show up.

 

[Derrick0580]

Don’t really trade as much as give my closest reefing friends frags because they give me frags. I’ve also given them rbta splits and even fish that don’t get along with others in my tank. Wish I knew more people in Indiana to trade with though!

 

[CraigJoh]

I would definitely be into trading, but finding local reefers has proven very difficult

 

[cpalminteri]

I’ve traded plenty with other local reefers but haven’t shipped any. I have a TON of frags that I need to get rid of so if anyone wants to Trade I’m game.

Where are you located?

 

[jgvergo]

I do not usually trade, as have no room. But I do give away tons of stuff to local reefers, as I always have some left over when I thin the herd and fill up the local LFS for store credit (food, salt, other dry goods) lol.

You are lucky. My LFS does not accept anything from client tanks.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

You are lucky. My LFS does not accept anything from client tanks.

Yeah, some LFS are like that. I do get it, as who knows what you could end up with. But then I see corals come from wholesalers to LFS that are worse than the worst home tank lol.

 

[OfficeReefer]

I would but I don't know anyone but me in my area. I know there are likely some but they probably have the same issue as @vetteguy53081 with most having the space for a much larger tank. I will have some toxic green hammers though in the next month, large colony I need to separate.

 

[OfficeReefer]

Waiting for it to stop being horribly, horribly hot in my area to do a coral trade with someone. Gotta hit that chunk of time where it's cool enough to ship, but also not into the holiday shipping rush yet.

That too. It's been danged hot these past few weeks.

 

[ESamson]

Now that I think of it I can start fragging mushrooms but let’s be real, if I’m trying to get rid of ricordea yuma then whose going to want it. Besides, don’t think that jaws would be impressed.

Lovely. Any tips on keeping Ricordea yuma? I'm interested in it but I'm reading it's pretty difficult for some reason.

 

[i cant think]

If you were in the US or I was in England, I would trade you some acros for some shrooms lol. Those would look great in my display fuge and be a great contrast to the macros.

Totally, I think that’s the biggest thing some people don’t realise is how if done the right way softies/mushrooms can look extremely nice and go well with the flow of a reef.

Lovely. Any tips on keeping Ricordea yuma? I'm interested in it but I'm reading it's pretty difficult for some reason.

Honestly, I don’t do anything special other then have them higher in the tank to get them bubbling up (I cant tell if the flow has something to do with it or if it’s the lighting). Other than that I just let time do it’s thing
I get some great young yumas from the mother colony(ies?).