IF $$$ WAS NO OBJECT. WHAT CORAL WOULD YOU BUY??

[Clo]

waiting for the 2021 coral market crash so i can get all my special frags lmaoooo

 

[PeterB113]

Before the big torch craze.... Those were just purple torchs for like $30 a head.

Crazy it's hard to get ANY torch now for 30 a head unless it's a micro cristata

 

[LAX Noob Reef]

waiting for the 2021 coral market crash so i can get all my special frags lmaoooo

It's down 700 point, is this the correction your talking about??

Coral I want.............All the SPS in the world?

 

[Mr_Knightley]

If money were no object and I had the perfect setup, I would try and find solid red, solid gold and rainbow Acanthophyllias of decent sizes. I would also try to find some nice iced Cynarinas (red with white spots and stripes) as well as a rainbow Indophyllia. I would buy a colony of Sunkist shrooms and try to get ahold of a nice golden Anacropora colony. On the absolute top of my want list though is a blue LTA.
Fish wise, I would get a skeletor eel and a giant harem of Huchtii anthias. I would also try to obtain a pair of joculator angelfish and a male feminine wrasse.

 

[Clo]

It's down 700 point, is this the correction your talking about??

Coral I want.............All the SPS in the world?

50c and not a penny more! jk
I just got into the hobby, so it's crazy to hear how prices have changed

 

[PeterB113]

If money were no object and I had the perfect setup, I would try and find solid red, solid gold and rainbow Acanthophyllias of decent sizes. I would also try to find some nice iced Cynarinas (red with white spots and stripes) as well as a rainbow Indophyllia. I would buy a colony of Sunkist shrooms and try to get ahold of a nice golden Anacropora colony. On the absolute top of my want list though is a blue LTA.
Fish wise, I would get a skeletor eel and a giant harem of Huchtii anthias. I would also try to obtain a pair of joculator angelfish and a male feminine wrasse.

+1 blue LTA

 

[PeterB113]

50c and not a penny more! jk
I just got into the hobby, so it's crazy to hear how prices have changed

Same here wish I started 5yr ago

 

[elorablue]

Same here wish I started 5yr ago

Well maybe you don't..5 years ago a 1 inch Rainbow Loom frag would have cost you a few hundred dollars, I just bought 2 big frags a few weeks ago for $30 each..
Unless you have to be the first to have the latest and greatest just wait it out and everything that costs hundreds today will be cheap and cheerful in no time at all.

 

[PeterB113]

Well maybe you don't..5 years ago a 1 inch Rainbow Loom frag would have cost you a few hundred dollars, I just bought 2 big frags a few weeks ago for $30 each..
Unless you have to be the first to have the latest and greatest just wait it out and everything that costs hundreds today will be cheap and cheerful in no time at all.

Can I see a pic not sure what rainbow loom even is lol. And what other corals have u seen go for crazy money years ago and now it's cheap?

 

[elorablue]

Can I see a pic not sure what rainbow loom even is lol. And what other corals have u seen go for crazy money years ago and now it's cheap?

Rainbow Loom is an Acropora.
It’s fairly easy to track pricing. I wasn’t even in the hobby 5 years ago but if you search here under the coral name a number of for sale listings will come up from recent to years ago and it gives you a good idea on current and past value $
Any coral that can be easily propagated at the hobbiest level will drop in price like a stone once it saturates the market. Bounce mushrooms are a good example. Spendy now but in a couple years or less they’ll be cheap as chips.

 

[PeterB113]

Rainbow Loom is an Acropora.
It’s fairly easy to track pricing. I wasn’t even in the hobby 5 years ago but if you search here under the coral name a number of for sale listings will come up from recent to years ago and it gives you a good idea on current and past value $
Any coral that can be easily propagated at the hobbiest level will drop in price like a stone once it saturates the market. Bounce mushrooms are a good example. Spendy now but in a couple years or less they’ll be cheap as chips.

Hope that's not the case lol just bought a OG Bouce 2 weeks ago for a pretty penny.... guess I gotta get to fragging quick and get some money back.

 

[elorablue]

Hope that's not the case lol just bought a OG Bouce 2 weeks ago for a pretty penny.... guess I gotta get to fragging quick and get some money back.

The tricky part is, once the price drops on some of these corals, the major vendors will just stop carrying them. They'll just leave it to the Garage Fraggers to sell it for 1/4 of the price .

 

[PeterB113]

The tricky part is, once the price drops on some of these corals, the major vendors will just stop carrying them. They'll just leave it to the Garage Fraggers to sell it for 1/4 of the price .

#livingroomfraggers

 

[homer1475]

A bounce mushroom 10 years ago, would have just been another ugly mushroom someone was trying to give away.

 

[Digitalfirex]

A bounce mushroom 10 years ago, would have just been another ugly mushroom someone was trying to give away.

That's what I'm trying to do now, adopt me some corals.

 

[Bigdaddy05]

wish coral for me is a Csb anenome and a og bounce shroom as for fish any of the crazy priced wrasses would be great

 

[Saltandfresh]

If money were no object I Still wouldn't spend more than a hundred bucks on Any coral.
I find beautiful corals all the time, including Acro for $30. I'm not trying to impress the internet with my tank, just myself.

I agree so much with this. The corals I started off with when I got into reefing were all less than $100. I eventually thought I needed to step up my game and purchased $1,000 corals. Dumb mistake. The cheaper corals are more beautiful and stress free. My long spine urchin has been munching on my $1000 acro ( which isn’t even beautiful ) and it’s just pure stress.