NyReefNoob, sometimes a name says alot. LOL! Sorry bout that, you set yourself up and I can't pass up an opportunity like that. I can understand why you wold think that, seems to make sense at first. Not going to get into a genetics debate with you, but if someone collects a coral and does not split it with but 3 people, and no one else got a piece of that exact coral, then only those 3 have it. Any similar coral would be different genetically, perhaps like your coral that just happened to change colors. I have an unnamed watermelon that looks like the Tyree, but that doesn't make it so or make it any less beautiful. Dr. Mac wishes he had the Mi Miami, as do most of us who love chalices.
The MM and MP are rare for reasons, not the least of which are they probably are slow growers for most people, and they look really cool. Both are on my to get list. But I know at least a dozen or more people who have each. Sure there are more. If the Mi Miami is a slow grower it will stay rarer. If people don't frag it like crazy it will stay rarer, no matter what is in or comes out of the ocean. Could also argue that being newer influences the "rarity" gradient, but that can change quickly with our cloning techniques. Who's the rarest person in the world? Guess what I am trying to say is every chalice is rare until it starts being fragged, and will say it again, the rarest chalice is in the ocean and will be seen by none of us, that what makes it so rare, never even seen by human eyes. The ever elusive Mr. Hanky chalice!
