What's your opinion on high end corals. Are they worth buying? Would they make you enough money per year to just buy few pieces of equipment and small things. Or is it just a look what i got thing.
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I'm over here buying cheap frags and I'm like i would more then likely give a high end frag just about the same care as these cheaper ones and they'll just look good in my tank and bring me nothing only joy. Meanwhile the high end frag bring me joy and support my hobby a bitIt could certainly be both of those things or it could also be money down the drain. Depends on the individual reefer
Coral God, or just economics? I believe that expensive corals are expensive because they are hard to acquire. Unless they are a newly discovered thing, that’s generally because they are hard to propagate successfully, right? Cheap corals are cheap because they grow like weeds and everyone is selling them. I think the best corals are the cheap ones because I’m not gambling $500 that I’ll be able to keep this thing alive.it's the Coral God's law... cheap corals do great while the high end corals just won't grow or outright die.
It’s partially supply and demand, but prices are also artificially inflated by the hype machine/the name game, misleading marketing, intentionally holding stock back, live sales, etc. Virtually none of the corals we buy are rare or hard to come by, and 90% of them can be propagated. For instance torches are ridiculously priced right now, but they are nowhere near rare or hard to come by, and the highest priced ones are some of the most common. I feel like the hype machine and vendors’ exploitation of peoples’ FOMO is getting really gross in this hobby. And then you have the people who are in the hobby as an investment, who reinforce and perpetuate the the hype machine. My point is, it is not solely supply and demand, the hobby is in some ways the best it’s ever been and in some ways it is sick and rotted to core. You know that there is something wrong when private equity firms are buying up online coral vendors, working in this hobby has never been about getting rich, and I don’t begrudge people making a living, but it used to be about the love of the hobby, and now far too often it’s about the money first and foremost. And that’s just sad.Coral God, or just economics? I believe that expensive corals are expensive because they are hard to acquire. Unless they are a newly discovered thing, that’s generally because they are hard to propagate successfully, right? Cheap corals are cheap because they grow like weeds and everyone is selling them. I think the best corals are the cheap ones because I’m not gambling $500 that I’ll be able to keep this thing alive.
By the time they cover your tank, they will be nothing more than Pandoras. Buy corals because you like them, not for your ego.My ego won't let me have cheaper frags. The dream is for designer pieces like gmk and jf homewreckers that cover the tank
Wonder if we’ll see them lobby for legislation against hobbyists selling to each other.You know that there is something wrong when private equity firms are buying up online coral vendors