"i mean a year or two ago you could buy a colony of nice colored zoas for 40-60. now they are that much for a polyp.
so they add a silly name and now its outrageous prices."
It's not just you my friend,
I have to respectfully disagree with this my friend.
"But if you are a "collector" you will have to pay for the ones that are hard to obtain."
It seems that hobbyist have been replaced by the word " collector". I disagree that you have to pay top dollar for the ones that are hard to obtain. I purchase a 2 inch colony of the large purple palys with 13 full dime size adults heads on a 2 inch rock for a LFS last week for $ 49.99. They sell from $ 50 to $ 100 in some places. There is but one explanation for this.
To date, I estimate I could have made over $ 20,000 in the past 3 years since the advent of names and sky high prices. Yes, that is true and that is the street value of what I could have sold my polyps for that I either gave away to help a newbie out or sold for $ 1 to $ 3 per polyp. I put on 3 polyp last week on one frag. Those polyps sell for $ 50 a piece, $ 65 a polyp on Ebay. That's over $ 200. Well, I better stop, this topic has been discussed many times and my opinions are known, so I'll leave this one here.
Hobbyist are being replaced with retailers. Nothing wrong with making a dollar to help support your expenses to run your tank. But when your entire tank is a frag tank and every new polyp is fragged and sold for gain, well, oops, I did it again.
I have to disagree, zoas and plays are not hard to keep. Again, if the time, money and effort that is placed into names and prices was equally placed upon education and knowledge, this hobby would be a breeze.
You're right Skeptic, it's good marketing.
Buy some vibrant colored polyps, get a good digital camera, set up a take, have 1 year in the hobby, get a polyp to grow, give them a cute names, and you're a ZOA GOD.
Mucho Reef
so they add a silly name and now its outrageous prices."
It's not just you my friend,
I have to respectfully disagree with this my friend.
"But if you are a "collector" you will have to pay for the ones that are hard to obtain."
It seems that hobbyist have been replaced by the word " collector". I disagree that you have to pay top dollar for the ones that are hard to obtain. I purchase a 2 inch colony of the large purple palys with 13 full dime size adults heads on a 2 inch rock for a LFS last week for $ 49.99. They sell from $ 50 to $ 100 in some places. There is but one explanation for this.
To date, I estimate I could have made over $ 20,000 in the past 3 years since the advent of names and sky high prices. Yes, that is true and that is the street value of what I could have sold my polyps for that I either gave away to help a newbie out or sold for $ 1 to $ 3 per polyp. I put on 3 polyp last week on one frag. Those polyps sell for $ 50 a piece, $ 65 a polyp on Ebay. That's over $ 200. Well, I better stop, this topic has been discussed many times and my opinions are known, so I'll leave this one here.
Hobbyist are being replaced with retailers. Nothing wrong with making a dollar to help support your expenses to run your tank. But when your entire tank is a frag tank and every new polyp is fragged and sold for gain, well, oops, I did it again.
I have to disagree, zoas and plays are not hard to keep. Again, if the time, money and effort that is placed into names and prices was equally placed upon education and knowledge, this hobby would be a breeze.
You're right Skeptic, it's good marketing.
Buy some vibrant colored polyps, get a good digital camera, set up a take, have 1 year in the hobby, get a polyp to grow, give them a cute names, and you're a ZOA GOD.
Mucho Reef
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