You ever bought a Brown coral to see what it turns out to be?l

[twintrades]

Theres a Store near me that has some Browned out corals. There some kinda Pricillapora and Acropora. Some are White others are Skin toned With VERY slight Blue hue to the tips. I mean I barely notice it. Im thinking about asking if thell take a few bucks for there dying sticks.....

So anyone Buy corals that you wernt sure of to see what they could be ?

 

[mike007]

Sounds scary to me.

 

[PaulKreider]

Heres one of the best brown purchases iv gotten, LFS had it for cheap so I said why not, colored up into a beauty!

 

[Landon]

I'm a sucker for a browned out sps. Never know what it will be.

 

[nova65ss]

I'm a sucker for a browned out sps. Never know what it will be.

Me too love brown corals!

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[Zack]

You love brown corals?
I love colorful corals!

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[TopNotchCorals]

I use to do it all the time. These browned out corals come from LFS's that don't give a crap about their coral and are just selling it for business. They don't know how to maintain a healthy reef tank and that's why they look the way they do. Most of the corals I purchased that were browned out always turned out to be nice colorful piece. So if I were you I'd save those corals from certain death at your LFS and watch them turn into something nice.

 

[nova65ss]

You love brown corals?
I love colorful corals!

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Haha love the price of brown corals especially when they turn out like this!

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[Dtech07]

Some of the Best treasures are BROWN Corals:second:

 

[peter505]

Bought a few browned out sticks. One turned out to be a nice bonsai, and the other is a bright green mini colony now

 

[Dtech07]

Here's a few brown that turned out GOLD!

And

 

[Fatmike92]

I might have to try this out and see what gems I can find. plenty of brown corals at the LFS around here lol

 

[Dtech07]

What's the worst you can come up with? A free frag for beginners, extra frags to take to the Frag Swap, bleach it and and grow montis to and sell the frags or find a true Gem which happens for me about 70-80% of the time.

 

[Andrew.concepcion]

Just curious, about how long does it take for the colors to start showing up if I were to purchase a brown coral? I'm thinking about buying some because you guys make it sound like one heck of a deal


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[PaulKreider]

A couple weeks to a month.

 

[Zack]

Hmmm paying little to no money for a potential gem, where at worst you lose a few bucks....
Sounds like terrible planound:
Just messin:wink:

 

[TopNotchCorals]

Just curious, about how long does it take for the colors to start showing up if I were to purchase a brown coral? I'm thinking about buying some because you guys make it sound like one heck of a deal


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I see your in the Bay Area, what LFS are you talking about?

 

[Dtech07]

+1 on the two weeks to a month. You figure these corals have been in either low lighting or poor conditions and coming into a sps environment doesn't take long for then to start showing their colors. For me two months gives me a really good idea of what's to come.

 

[TopNotchCorals]

Just curious, about how long does it take for the colors to start showing up if I were to purchase a brown coral? I'm thinking about buying some because you guys make it sound like one heck of a deal


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I'd give it a month max, be sure to acclimate it slowly to your system though. I'm sure the water and lighting your LFS is using in this system are poor at best.

 

[rajkovich207]

There is an awesome thread around here that's like 12 pages of amazing brown success stories. There's a couple lfs around here that has a "color me up" action, sadly they are usually $20 and in bad shape, there was an amazing lfs about an hour from me that had a section like this where their LE frags would brown out on them and they'd sell them dirt cheap, you just didn't know what one you were getting lol. Shame they closed their retail side