Do all of you sell these frags?
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Salamander
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I let them go free, free to roam the world and experience new and wonderful places.
I really just trade, give away, or sell at my LFS for credit for supplies etc.
I really just trade, give away, or sell at my LFS for credit for supplies etc.
banditfl
New member
Sell/trade with friends, I have a LFS that will give cash and another store that gives me credit and sometimes cash. I just do this to offset some of the costs of the hobby. and it is starting to pay-off.
Here is an ironic thing to think about. I have received more than 10x in store credit than the original cost of the parent corals purchased from that store.
If I didn't prune some of my soft corals my tanks would be overrun with Xenia and Red Mushrooms.
Here is an ironic thing to think about. I have received more than 10x in store credit than the original cost of the parent corals purchased from that store.
If I didn't prune some of my soft corals my tanks would be overrun with Xenia and Red Mushrooms.
banditfl
New member
It changes. Everybody always wants SPS, but don't always understand the sticker shock at the LFS. Slow growing compared to most soft corals, which means higher cost. Most frags from established aquarium pieces do seem to grow faster and adapt better than most wild caught IME. This seem to apply with most coral I have purchased soft or hard
Soft corals always do well for trade at the LFS, cheaper and easier to keep, mostly because cheaper on the retail side. But the demand for the different corals change.
ex. One of the LFS I go to I was suppling red Mushrooms and they went fast. Now she has a few left looking for a home. With my Pulsing Xenia at first I would supplied the LFS with a few nice pieces and they sat. Then a little later in the year I can't bring enough to sell and then a month later it just sits again.
Zoos are always popular, generally a higher priced coral than most softies. But the color demands change. Again slower to propagated.
xenias!
once your tank condition is right, they spread like weeeeeds!!
it's crazy! look at this:
of course Green star polyps, anthelias.
although they don't sell for as much as SPS, but they grow so fast that they'll bring in good $$ from selling to lfs. and also trading. you can trade for other stuff too.
SoCalReefs
New member
zorics
All i can say is WOW :eek2:
All i can say is WOW :eek2:
Serioussnaps
New member
Xenia, mushrooms, umbrella leathers, green star polyps. All grow/ reproduce extremely fast, which makes for paying for salt, carbon, additives, food, other coral etc.....
bowfront26
New member
zorics, you would get probably $1000 for that amount of xenia at one of my LFSs here.
r00onmac
DVM in training
i wish i could get 1 piece to start growing my own but my lfs only has like 2 pieces and neither of them look healthy and i dont want to pay 30 bucks for a piece that looks like it could fall over and die... i want to pay 5 bucks for a tiny healthy piece and let my tank get like that and then sell it all back for 5 bucks a stalk... lol
bluenassarius
retired algae slanger
i dump em into the creek behind my house. hopefully it'll attach to some rocks back there.
