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The reason wild colonies "pass-on" is mainly due to greed, ignorance, and impatience. Greedy a$$holes rip them from nature to make a quick buck. Ignorant handlers expose them to air, put them in the dar, and shale the crap out of them causing tremendous stress in shipment, and few have th patience to properly acclimate coraly to the home marne environment. Ous tanks are much more stabile than nature (well some of ours are... cough cough Ryan, Mike, Mike cough) yet we rarely take the time to ease new critters in to our systems and they end up dieing more often than living. They need to be collected and acclimated in outdoor tanks for a month or more, then movedunder a roof to get 505 natural light for a few weeks, the completely inside for a coule more weeks. But this cost time and money and greed once again wins over!

Then some guy with a $100 bill burning a hole in his pocket is always there to get a "deal" so what would you do as a collector? Make him wait? You'll go out of business as he finds someone who will sell to him now!
 
i get that.... but nobody said the colony i bought was wild. I got it from another RC member who grew it from a piece the size of a quarter.... but i totally understand what your telling me about wild colonies. I won't even buy wild colony's because for one they are ugly and two they just don't do well at all after spending half their lives in the ocean.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7444661#post7444661 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by coralfarmer84
I won't even buy wild colony's because for one they are ugly
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Ugly? Do you keep an eye on reefermadness.us? Some of the most beautiful corals Ive seen.
 
Good luck keeping that color, from what i hear many wild colonies fade in time, if not die off completely, if they are even is that color in the first place... i'm a skeptic of anything that can be photoshopped online. Speaking of Photoshopping, my friend is thinking about selling his port jackson shark... interested? :p
 
Nah Im good on the port jackson shark front.

Typically I dont believe any of the colors seen in pics on a website, but I have orderd from reefermadness.us, and I have to say, their stuff looks exactly like it does online. I was totally skeptical when I ordred my first frags from them, but the stuff was unbelievable when it arrived.

Alot of people who aquaculture sps say that when they get a wild colony its hit or miss on the color once its in the tank. They say it often times browns a bit, but then can come back and look even better. But sometimes it just stays brown, which is why you dont see limited edition corals popping up sll over the place. Also depends on your lighting, I find that XM's give absolutely awesome color, but the growth is slower, and for aquaculture, thats a no no.

Also, off the subject I wanted to mention that my friend took me to a little hole in the wall shop in Niles, I wanna say it was on 422, but im not certain. And even though this place was like a little shack, all of his stuff looked healthy and he actually had some sps frags and decent looking corals. He mentioned that he bought out another fish store in the area and was gona be moving there to a bigger place. Younger guy, seemed really nice and knowledgeable, if there is ever any kind of MY-SEa, he may be a good person to talk to. Ill find out more about whats going on with his business when I get the chance to stop in and talk to him.
 
That's Rich from Professional Aquatics. Rich is/was one of our original members and definately a good guy. Paul told me that he was moving the store from the hole it's in now to Girard (a few miles S. on 422 In June. That's should help him out alot with space.

We've all bought from Rich because his stuff is actually cared for rather than dumped ina a tank an sold before it dies...
 
Yea he seemed like a pretty cool guy, he was closing and my buddy just wanted to swing by to show me the place before it closed for the night, so I didnt get a chance to talk to him. He was talking to another guy and was giving him some good info and not just trying to sell him stuff. This is the first place that I have come across in the area that I see as being a nice store, reguardless of its size.
 
Yea I also get a lot of stuff from Rich... he's a great guy. Speaking of stuff for sale, I'm most likely going to be selling my 240 tank, stand, canopy, and skimmer. Looks like I'll be getting another tank here thats 310 gallons (8'long, 25 tall, and 30 inches deep) so I'm sure soon you'll be seeing my stuff in the local threads up for sale. Just guaging interest I guess.....
 
Good luck selling it bud! You may end up all but giving it away condisering the locak market for tanks. I have another 72 gal. bow I just got from Jamie. When I helped him tear down on Sat. he gave me about 75 lb. of LR a purple tang, tomatoe clown, overflow, some small pumps, arag, and some nano rock. I don't want the tank so if someone is interested it's here at my crib. I may even clean it up... Or not!!!!
 
i have over 2 months to sell it (actually I have to sell it within that time but i can't transfer out my stuff till august so thats gonna cause some selling issues) I'm keeping all of my coral, rock, pumps, lights, etc. The only thing I'm going to sell is the tank, stand, canopy, protein skimmer, and the magnum 350 canisters that came with it will be thrown in.... I'll be selling almost all my softies too because i'm going to do LPS and SPS only (highly toward SPS) So I'll have mushrooms, probably a leather, star polyps, and probably a few other things to unload as well.

The way I look at it is the new tank I'm wanting is going to run me over 1000 just for the glass. I'd be building my own stand, tank would be a wall divider viewable from 3 sides with built in overflows on one of the short side walls. So if I can't get back most of the cost by selling my tank, stand and canopy then I'm just going to keep my tank. Not a big deal, just thinking if i can upgrade at a minimal cost to me why not? The stand would be cheap to build as I'm looking to make it look like part of the wall, and I could use everything i have to make the jump. My main cost would be in a new skimmer, and I'd probably be needing a chiller down here also, although the air in the house is cool at all times.... Guess time will tell with everything. when i get home I'm going to list it and see what happens, if any of you guys are interested, you obviously have first dibbs...
 
Stacker how much are you asking for the bowfront or are you just trying to get rid of it?

Ryan just lemmie know what livestock you wanna get rid of when your ready to unload it. I like softies (well shrooms and zoos anyways), I think theyre under rated, they make great cover for the bare rock.
 
Bow is free if you come get it! if I have to deliver it it'll cost ya a 12 pack. If it's for someone outside the loop it'll cost them a 12 pack too!!!! I'm cheap but not free!
 
I dont know what happened, but somehow the guard got knocked off of the magdrive on my closed loop, and I came home last night to find my yellow tang eerily stationary. Sure enough, he swam right into the thing and he was stuck to the pump. I unplugged it and still had to help him get free, it was a hell of a seal. Now he has a blood red hickey on his side. Hes not eating yet but he is out and swimming around after cautiously peeking out from behind the rocks for half an hour.
As far as I know he could have been stuck to the thing for up to 12 hours which makes him the second toughest fish I have ever owned. He is being beaten only by my niger trigger that went hardwood floor surfing for at least 45 minutes. Stiff as a board and covered in everything that my swiffer apparently did not pick up, I was about to bury him at sea when he flared his dorsal fin, so I put him in a small container of tank water, cleaned all the junk off of him, and returned him to the tank. He was out eating the next evening.
After that he began jumping out of the tank every second tuesday of the month to play poker and have a cigar with us. That was a Hell of a fish.
 
Yea my achilles got sucked into one of my tunze streams before I left to come down here. He didn't fare so well, dying about 12 hours later. stupid fish must have drifted to close with the lights off and got stuck.
So since 12 packs seem to be working out so well, who wants to make a road trip to Florida this summer to help me unload my new tank and place it on the stand. It's only going to weigh around 800 or so pounds empty. So for a 12 pack apiece who's in :cool:
 
12 packs are only used locally... sorry!


Jamokie I have the tanks in the back of my truck, just let me know when you want it and you can come get it.
 
Awesome, thanks Stacker.
When would work for you?
Im off this evening, tommorow day, Thursday day, Friday evening, and Sunday.
 
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