He does have nice stuff but he don’t have any coral that looks like that in person! Go to a coral show and check the pieces out! There’s tons of nice stuff but nothing that will glow like that even under blue lights.
outside rare occasions I am moving away from sales and whatnot. my LFS has a number of acros for $35 or 2 or 50. well encrusted and over an inch long. I feel a lot less bad when they die, plus I have store credit fairly regularly.
This is reasonable. This I can get behind but a purple tort frag just because it has some random name for $299.... I just want to know who is buying this.
Pictures.. gotta have the pictures.
Here is a few… one thing I don’t spend on is time in photoshop or taking great pics. These are my latest costy adventures (minus a pending SBB shipment)- WD and a SCOP… note the orange in the bigR WD- no camera tricks there. Both are still coloring up and new to my system. I’ll edit here with more as the lights kick on-
$300 for an investment that will likely not pay off for 2 years.... I can make more than that on a swing trade in a week... Much less of a risk.
He also doesn't do his own photography. If I remember correctly he said his wife does and he doesn't even know what kind of camera is used. Photoshop is king. Just saying
It can be but agree the return isn’t there. I’ve strived to get my hobby just to pay for itself and it has a couple months over the last decade :) best investment are the cheaper fast growing corals that you can chop up and sell cheap. My goal is to grow what I enjoy to look at which includes corals that can cost if they’ve been tagged by a name- I don’t exclusive name shop but most the times I’ll say that the ones with names are the nicer, unique ones. My most expensive piece is an acantho that I’ll never sell and wouldn’t get a return on anyway. But it is gorgeous, mesmerizing and I’m blessed to have it.
Yeah, I have a few buddies like that. One in particular. Been over two years, and I still bug him to come get his stuff! :grinning-squinting-face:
I feel like 90% of this happens online with pictures of a mother colony. When you visit a LFS you can see if the plug is encrusted and the acro is healthy. Almost nobody would pay $400 for a 1" freshly-cut frag if they saw it in person. It's a great way for the seller to make $400 and take no risk.
