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Drove an hour and a half to my favorite reef store. This is a big pet store thats been running for decades and has a massive reef dept full of over grown tanks, well maintained, and savy staff. Their zoa/paly tank is a massive shallow display where they keep a grow out side and frag side. Smart people. I literally could not count the number of tanks they have just housing corals. They have so many they dont have the staff to label the stuff for sale.
This place had enough Euphyllia to repopulate the Indian Ocean in the event of an asteroid strike. I saw at least a dozen of fat and healthy hammers the size of footballs and with polyps the size of your thumb. Half their Euphyllia wasnt even priced because they have so much and it's actually grown too big to cut and frag.
Yet their prices are still > $50 per head for generic hammers, froggies and torches. I'm seeing this in many reef shops and frag meets. Wall to Wall Euphyllia everywhere and yet prices are what I consider dont justify demand. Friend of mine runs a little local reef shop and can't give away the stuff because it grows faster than he can frag it.
High end corals command high prices. Supply and demand. That's cool. I dig a market economy. Euphyllia however seems to be everywhere with stores having it climbing out of their tanks and yet prices seem pretty pricey. Thoughts?
This place had enough Euphyllia to repopulate the Indian Ocean in the event of an asteroid strike. I saw at least a dozen of fat and healthy hammers the size of footballs and with polyps the size of your thumb. Half their Euphyllia wasnt even priced because they have so much and it's actually grown too big to cut and frag.
Yet their prices are still > $50 per head for generic hammers, froggies and torches. I'm seeing this in many reef shops and frag meets. Wall to Wall Euphyllia everywhere and yet prices are what I consider dont justify demand. Friend of mine runs a little local reef shop and can't give away the stuff because it grows faster than he can frag it.
High end corals command high prices. Supply and demand. That's cool. I dig a market economy. Euphyllia however seems to be everywhere with stores having it climbing out of their tanks and yet prices seem pretty pricey. Thoughts?