Are these blue zoas anything special?
- Thread starter Junktown
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sweet2004r1
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Look like tubbs
82ndengineer
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Not cheap but not expensive.
Da Kind Reef
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ya looks like blue tubbs!
leveldrummer
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without being able to trace the lineage back to tubbs, it would be dishonest to call these tubbs blues and attempt to sell them at that price (even through they are common and not expensive)
They are very nice blue zoas, appreciate them for what they are, not for how much you might be able to sell a polyp for.
They are very nice blue zoas, appreciate them for what they are, not for how much you might be able to sell a polyp for.
Come up with a name for them and add "Super Ultra Premmium" to the name you came up with. Say it's a new release, then charge $50 a polyp. :spin3::spin3::spin3:
Just like leveldrummer said, appreciate them for what they are and how they look, not the fancy name somebody gave them. I've seen corals with no name that sell for way less that look way better then corals with a name and cost an arm and a leg.
Just like leveldrummer said, appreciate them for what they are and how they look, not the fancy name somebody gave them. I've seen corals with no name that sell for way less that look way better then corals with a name and cost an arm and a leg.
bgifford
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Ya, thats just what we need- People profiting even more for a claimed coral lineage. The conversations will now be something like this: "Your zoa's arent really goblin buster ultra premiums because you don't have a pedigree to show it, but these here are the real deal and much brighter- I'll give you a deal at $500/polyp with proof of lineage". and then the forums will become flooded with threads like: "are lineage corals worth the extra money?" followed by long pages and arguments about arbitrary opinions claiming their pro's and cons. :spin3:
BTW Junktown, Your zoa's are really cool whatever they are called- You should come up with your own name for them
(If you do come up with a name for them, just make sure you follow the standardized marijuana nomenclature to keep things cohesive like high end coral names are known for- ie: Pink Boobies, Whamdoozler, Psychedelic Zebra,Pink Elephant). You wouldn't want to be the weird person and name them something boring and realistic like "blue zoas".
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Frick
AZ FRAG President
Yayyy my faith in humanity is restored. :dance: Usually I am the Captain Buzzkill that says this. But I agree 100% also. I have some blue Zoanthids that have the same colors as Tubbs, but they are a different and bigger species. And I got them from KK. So I refer to them as "KK's Blue Zoas".
leveldrummer
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Thats not really what I meant at all...
Everyone is telling this guy they look lke tubbs blues, when "tubbs" is actually a person that first started selling zoas that looked like these.
OP immediately asked "are those costly", which i took it to mean he had dollar signs in his eyes looking at the large rock he is sitting on.
but calling these the same isnt honest. They are all just blue zoas, it doesnt matter where they came from. They shouldnt cost 30 bucks a polyp no matter what the name, and certianly not from claiming they are something they arent.
There is a member selling a few zoa polyps for 250-300 bucks right now on this forum, and its INSANE! 3 polyps of zoas cost more then a good sized SPS colony?!? what happened in this hobby? :deadhorse1:
m-six hundred
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They are simple wild blue zoa, no name, no linage. When you frag them get what you can for them 
Please don't use any name.
Please don't use any name.They are simple wild blue zoa, no name, no linage. When you frag them get what you can for them
The name was a joke, but i think $2/polyp is reasonable.
m-six hundred
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I agree, very reasonable. Sorry I did not mean to come off as a jerk.
82ndengineer
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Ok when I said they look like Tubbs blue it was because if I said " they look like blue zoas" it would have come across as sarcastic. They "look" like Tubbs blues. But as stated by others unless purchased from him they are not " true " Tubbs blues. Clarification for the lineage hounds.
m-six hundred
The Most Diabolical Hater
It's not really lineage hounds. You would feel the same if you bought something at an auction based off "Blond Hair Blue Eye B's Zoa's". Then compare them to a friends who bought them direct and found you were sold something else. We even put them in his tank next to each other for months and they are completely different.
No hate, just trying to explain why some of us require that lineage.
No hate, just trying to explain why some of us require that lineage.
