Australian blue torch

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bottom line, if you want one that bad, and you find one you really like, what's another 20-40 in this hobby?
 
Just so you know, that tips are not "blue", but just white. What you are seeing there is someone pulling the blue light special on you ;) See the blue sand bed?
 
Yea I went and checked it out with regular lights on. Wasn't all that impressive. Hoping to find one. Will go to MAX and pick a couple things up
 
Sometimes wholesale is near $140 per head before shipping. These "high end" corals don't have much margin in them except for the guys that name them. They are available nearly every week, no reason for the price to be so high, but wholesalers can read reef central and that other reef site and see the stupid prices a few people get.

You must not live in California. ;)
 
ask him when he has a gold torch in first! lol.. he gets acros, euphyllia, clams and anemones in batches
 
ask him when he has a gold torch in first! lol.. he gets acros, euphyllia, clams and anemones in batches

+1 got mine at Ellis aquatics!! Mine gets about baseball sized , one of my favorite corals, the sting it can deliver is painful as hell:eek2: Palm was swollen for 2 days!

 
is this included?

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It's one thing to hear someone on RC "talking" about prices but when you actually SEE it... Puts the Ape in rape with this monkey business
 
Not trying to trash talk the store but not offering fair prices and taking advantage of a consumer / customer is pretty low. This happens to be the same store that sold me a pair of percula clowns in a holding tank marked Percula Clowns and then hit me with the bait and switch the moment they saw that I was actually really interested in the fish...

"Wait, all of these clowns (18-20) in this area I don't think are Percula. They don't look like it. I'm not sure what they are, let me google it... Oh these are Darwins... They are $55 each."

At that time I goggled Darwin clowns on my phone and showed him the photos and told him that none of these clowns (18-20 clowns) look nothing like Darwin clowns and he must be mistaken.

His reply (Eric) "Someone will be here soon that can help verify the actual species and label for you." (Eric sends his sister a text, sister arrives at store in about 5 mins after lunch is over)

I explain to the sister how I'm interested in buying the clowns and would like them bagged up but apparently there seems to be an issue with them being mislabeled? She then explains how she is the one that works the salt water area and Eric normally does everything else so she should be able to help clear the issue up. "Well, I don't know what these are but I don't think these are Percula clowns" she states.

Like, you are the ones that go to the wholesale for the fish and you don't know if you had to pay a little over premium for "Special ""clowns"" because they are not regular Percs? At this time she gets on her computer and starts browsing the net to see what they "might be" comes back and says that the (all 18-20 fish) appear to be "Chocolate ocellaris clowns" and says they are $39 each but she will give them to me for $8 each over the original asking price since I have a coupon.

In retrospect, I paid $16 more after the bait and switch for a couple clowns. I went back yesterday to see if the tanks have been relabeled "chocolate ocellaris $39" and found that the labels have not been altered. I asked a different guy that wasn't there during my original purchase how much the clowns were and if he knew their species.... "Those are all Percula clowns... The price is listed here (Points to the blue painters tape, it's been 5 days since my purchase... Why has no one changed the label on these "chocolate clowns?)

 
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