Stop with the names!

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

They have to be extra puffy

 

[WVNed]

I think we all know nothing is going to stop

It's like once the mold starts on a loaf of bread

 

[Bouncingsoul39]

the thing that i hate is retailers calling gray or brown corals blue or purple such and such. it’s gray or brown coral! it only looks that color cuz you’re blasting it with blue leds

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Ya i dont think the actinic led thing will ever go away. Ppl are dumbfounded by the glowing coral. Oooo. Aahhhhhh.
The hype name game to get an extra buck might but i think not. Prob get worse.
D

 

[176327]

The biggest that gets me are torches. The ones that are the most expensive are also the most common

Dude, that’s an amazing New York nicks torch!!!


what? This bicolor indo torch? Man, that’s a $50 torch not a $600 torch. You can tell by the way I’m not made of money and my opinions aren’t things I was told by media.

 

[176327]

+2 ^^^ Hu?

Agree, the name game has gotten to be pretty comical. Seems like the legalization of cannabis has increased the number of "reefing" addicts that are attracted to shiny things and fancy labels. You have to be seriously stoned to pay some of these outrageous prices for a single polyp or a qtr inch frag...

why does it have to be cannabis? Why can’t it just be social media and the constant need to have “the experience”.

sorry, just decided to take that personally. Has nothing to do with you :)

I just hate the stigma on cannabis when the problem isn’t a plant, it’s people who’s life revolves around getting another social media brain zap when they get a like or click a like or see that somebody might be thinking of clicking like.

 

[WVNed]

Our world is full of things to buy that don't actually exist because they were created in Photoshop

 

[Cell]

Don't mind the names, we need away to ID different morphs. I just wish there was a universal naming committee of some sort that picked the name and everyone would adopt that single name. 3 vendors calling the same zoa morph different names is not helpful.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

We do not need a dedicated naming team. Ex nay that. Lol
D

 

[Cabinetman]

The only way this crazy name and crazy price game ends is if we as a whole stop buying from them. As long as demand is there, someone will supply. The other thing is to educate new reefers. Let them know that photos are faked and that these vendors are just ripping them off.

 

[176327]

We do not need a dedicated naming team. Ex nay that. Lol
D

It would destroy the current market.

I’m not saying I’m for or against the market changing. Everyone wants lower prices, but everyone also wants to satisfy their own desires, so free markets right?

I wouldn’t hate everyone agreeing that the same blue and red zoa can just be x zoa and not - x y z zoa + celebrity name x y z zoa.

Edit: for clarity, when I was talking about desires, I meant “make a living” but that sounded so mundane. But after reading it, I’m pretty sure it was weird and vague.

 

[jeffp1]

I appreciate the sellers that put High end Zoas, SPS, etc. in there title. Helps me skip over that post and saves me time.

 

[King_Acidic]

I've gotten to the point that I don't even pay attention to the names of the corals. I've familiarized myself with the basic types and then buy what I see in my price point as long as it catches my attention.

 

[MaxTremors]

The worst is when people here (and elsewhere) really passionately try to defend these naming conventions like they are genuine hybrids or pedigrees. They’re not, there are no standards, they are 100% made up, constantly changed, and aren’t useful for identification or classification. They are a marketing ploy. But some people will defend the dumbest things once they’ve bought into it, it’s so much easier on the ego to defend your bad opinion than admit you are wrong.

 

[shneerf]

The worst is when people here (and elsewhere) really passionately try to defend these naming conventions like they are genuine hybrids or pedigrees. They’re not, there are no standards, they are 100% made up, constantly changed, and aren’t useful for identification or classification. They are a marketing ploy. But some people will defend the dumbest things once they’ve bought into it, it’s so much easier on the ego to defend your bad opinion than admit you are wrong.

Your rong Tip Top Cherry Zoas™ are 5.56 mm diameter with 118 to 134 polyps with RGB of 234 12 12 and have been bred in pristine Gatorade™ conditions. It's what zoas crave. Regular Cherry Zoas are 5.55 mm with only 117 to 133 polyps and an terrible RGB of 233 12 12. Those people don't use Gatorade™, they use water, like from the toilet.

 

[MaxTremors]

Your rong Tip Top Cherry Zoas™ are 5.56 mm diameter with 118 to 134 polyps with RGB of 234 12 12 and have been bred in pristine Gatorade™ conditions. It's what zoas crave. Regular Cherry Zoas are 5.55 mm with only 117 to 133 polyps and an terrible RGB of 233 12 12. Those people don't use Gatorade™, they use water, like from the toilet.

Funny thing, in Hong Kong, a lot of reefers use toilet water because Hong Kong’s sewage system uses salt water from the ocean, so they take water from the toilet, filter it (not exactly sure on what kind of filtering), and use it for their reef tanks because it’s much cheaper than using filtered tap water with salt mix. They even refer to it as ‘toilet water’.

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[shneerf]

@MaxTremors

 

[srobertb]

Agreed, and I'm sick of the doctored photos. Was just looking at one store with $300 single polyp blastos, photos rediculously doctored. And who's buying all of these corals being sold for $500 to $1000? With the exception of Austin Aqua Farms and a few others, I feel like I'm walking into a used car dealer lot to be scammed every time I look at corals online. I don't put on orange glasses to look at my tank.

And I just saw one of "those" post: I just bought such and such. Dumped it in my tank. Is it good or bad :rolleyes:

Word. I just bought $600 of corals from an online retailer out of San Diego. These cats not only photoshop the colors but this was my first experience with photoshopping the SIZES

instead of “cat fishing” I’m calling it “coral fishing”

 

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Anyone interested in buying this Ultragrade Lightning Dragonsbreath frogspawn? Only $1299 with shipping!

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[Jekyl]

I'd be fine with color scheme rather than names. Orange and blue zoas, gold torch, green hammer with purple tips.. Use of just colors instead of some stupid name would cut the price in half. At the same time would be much easier to find. It's not like the coral dealers created the frag in a lab.