rogerwilco357
Active member
wow those are some nice corals , hope to be up and running for corals soon but man I don't know if I could do 1 inch frags ...
No clue on species, they do have "names" though.
CJ's Pinky
Purple Rain
Orange Passion
I am interested in seeing what these corals look like in person; I've been told that the corals don't currently look like the images that have been posted. These are wild corals as far as I know. I would not buy anything ever from the vendor; you can see that they photoshop their photos. I don't see what's so great about these corals. Have you even seen a photo of a sample frag after you spent your $300+/-?
Also notice how rad the brown pinky looks in the second photo of the purple rain.
Well Logzor is getting them....he should post pics and tell us what he thinks when they get there....it wont tell us about long term success but will let us know the condition upon arrival.
The pinkie one in the first pic is to die for, yes in my subjective opinion that is "awesome". Will they hold up and keep color in the hobby?? But dang someone has to try, there wouldn't be too many corals in the hobby if no one jumped off the boat to see what was in the water. I'm pretty sure NO awesome corals have been selectively bred in a tank. There things aren't puppies or cattle. This hobby need some genetic engineering so we could actually have a red acro, sorry I don't buy that red planet or red dragon are actually red, shades of pink, nice shades of pink, but pink nonetheless.
They charged me around $65 for shipping to Cincinnati. The corals are being driven to Buffalo, NY with all the necessary permits then are shipped overnight from within the USA.
Did they say anything about guarantees? like live arrival 24 hours something anything? its quite a long way from canada->ny->westcoast
Just obtained some more information. These corals have been in captivity for approximately 1 year. They are part of the private collection of this vendor.
Most if not all of those are in the store....not in a display. And he does sell them...so I don't know if I would technically call that a private collection. They are for fragging only unless you want to open your wallet real wide I imagine.
I have never read or heard them say how long they have have had these corals....I'm interested in that information as well because I like to know my frags have been healthy and growing in a captive system for quite some time.
I'm not implying I know anything more than you do but I do shop at RR and I didn't see or hear of most of these corals till about 3 or 4 months ago. I was told they are wild collected.
If I can save my pennies I plan on going back soon to take a look at some of these guys and if they have held the color and look healthy...I might try one or two.....don't know where I'm gonna put it though.
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So its been almost 1.5yrs if you've got em lets see em!! Interested to see how they have grown out.
CJ's Pinky
Purple Rain
Orange Passion
3 realy nice corals IMO