Utter Chaos Colony Rock (300 heads!!) For Sale

[Sisterlimonpot]

Gotcha, I'd just keep it... I'm sure it fills out your reef quite well

 

[Daddy-o]

Beautiful, thats a $5000 coral all day long! probably closer to $14,000

 

[Jason sun]

Extremely hard to find hobbyist wants to buy something around 300p even $3pp.
If you dump to local fish stores they will low ball you. You even won't get anything close to $500 from LFS.
If you chop to 100 frags, it will be hard to find 100 buyers. lol
This is the common issue of those colonies. GLWS

 

[Phil D.]

Beautiful, thats a $5000 coral all day long! probably closer to $14,000

Thanks Daddy-O !! I did my research on polyp prices and yes, at 300 heads it would be $7500.

 

[Phil D.]

Extremely hard to find hobbyist wants to buy something around 300p even $3pp.
If you dump to local fish stores they will low ball you. You even won't get anything close to $500 from LFS.
If you chop to 100 frags, it will be hard to find 100 buyers. lol
This is the common issue of those colonies. GLWS

Thanks!!

 

[Phil D.]

Ok folks, I found my wife's sunshade which allowed me to get a great picture with out the blues of some polyps!!!!

 

[Reefman71]

Nice colony! I got all excited when I saw $500 and almost messaged you and then scroll down a bit.

 

[Phil D.]

Nice colony! I got all excited when I saw $500 and almost messaged you and then scroll down a bit.

Sorry! Daughter chewed me out for dropping it!

 

[Reefman71]

I think your asking price is fair it’s just gonna take a little time to find the right buyer.

 

[JumboShrimp]

Much better photos to show off its beauty, at least. Best wishes giving it a new home.

 

[Reefman71]

Much better photos to show off its beauty, at least. Best wishes giving it a new home.

Totally agree for 1000 bucks you need at least 10 really good photos

 

[Phil D.]

Now that I found the sunshade gets rid of the blues, I will be posting bunch of photos tomorrow.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Beautiful, thats a $5000 coral all day long! probably closer to $14,000

There's definitely value to an entire rock covered in zoanthids. But it's not as simple as multiplying the price per polyp. Most sellers get away with that when they have 5-10 polyps on a plug, but when you have an entire rock of them the value doesn't add up that way. As you add more polyps, the price per polyp begins to diminish and at about polyp 30 the price is already at 5-10% of the original per polyp price. Continue to use that equation, at 300 you're talking pennies for the polyp.

For me, once I purchase a plug of zoanthids and put them in my tank, the value of that zoa turned to zero, the only way I'd add the same zoanthid to my tank is if someone gave it to me.

I'm sure somewhere in the business world there's an exact formula that is followed in situations like this, none the less in this case that rock is more valuable to the owner than it is to anyone else, and that's why I said just keep it and enjoy it.

 

[CoralStop]

I got locals having trouble selling 100+ polyps for $200

 

[Potatohead]

I know when I buy things in volume I usually just take the price of the smallest quantity sold and then multiply it by the quantity I'm buying

... or not

 

[yepreef]

$300 would be fair, this is being sold as colony not per polyps.

 

[Fakegolfnews]

Thanks Daddy-O !! I did my research on polyp prices and yes, at 300 heads it would be $7500.

This may sound harsh but you need to hear it:

You are adding up retail prices of a very common strain of a very common coral that grows like weeds and selling in bulk at per polyp prices.

Its kinda like a drug dealer selling a pound at per gram prices, its actually exactly that.

If you want to make 1000 frag it onto 10 tiles of 30 polyps and sell them for 100. You could make more frags to make more $ or could probably charge more than 100 for 30 polyps. But nobody is gonna pay 1000 for that as nice as it looks.

 

[Jon Fishman]

You guys aren’t reading what he wrote..... He can’t frag it or lower the price...... he has a daughter to think about.

 

[LiveRockmia]

Similar to buying a bottle of water for $1 vs buying a 20 pack of water bottles for $6

 

[Jmasonreef]

It’s like buying a 20 pound bag of sand at petco for 40$ vs ordering a 1 ton freight load for 500$!