Question about corals....simple one...

[ctniners]

Hello guys,
I have a simple question....what makes a coral ORA or Tyree, etc?.....how can you tell if that is a coral that came from one of the top high end growers?

what stops somebody selling frags from his tank from advertising that his corals are from one of those places? and therefore charging double the price?

I assume the answer is that I am going at my own risk, but lets say you want to be 100% sure that they are in fact high end frags, where would you buy from to prevent being overcharged by somebody selling from their tank.

thanks guys

 

[cmaxwell39]

ORA and Tyree are just where the coral originates from, at least in the commercial market. I find that most hobbyists are pretty honest about lineage of the corals they are selling, but there is nothing to stop people from advertising falsely with a coral that looks similar to some of the popular ones from these places. If you want to be 100% sure you are getting ORA or Tyree peices you will have to buy retail and pay the huge price up front.

The good news is there are a lot of pictures on line to compare to when someone is selling a supposed ORA or other high end peice. If you are unsure, don't buy it.

Beyond that, if you like the coral and are willing to pay the price that is being asked, who cares where it came from. It is your tank and you get to look at all the cool corals that you collect and put in there, whether they are named or not.

 

[nvdiz]

^ +1 ^

a coral gets their name labled as, "ORA or Tyree" simply because thats where the coral was cultured from. However as people attain them and continue to frag them, the lineage becomes harder to determine.

 

[JB NY]

Tyree: A man named Steve Tyree, see a coral and gets a frag. He then names the coral some random name and starts to sell it. poof! A Tyree coral.

Same thing with ORA, in the case of ORA Dustin probably names it.

 

[ctniners]

now, these places are not morphing or creating new kind of corals correct?....they are just aquacultiring them therefore making them available to us so we have a hardier coral then the same kind that is picked randomly from the wild....is this correct?

 

[sslak]

Well, they add the fancy designer name...otherwise yes!

They probably got a frag to start from a retailer/collector/hobbyist and they're propagating it in their tanks for the purpose of selling commercially to profit.