Are Acans still considered rare?

[Unarce]

http://search.ebay.com/acanthastrea...0QQfposZ95758QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1

http://www.frags.org/genussearch.php?genus=81

...the RBTA comparisons appear to be valid.

 

[Ben1]

I dunno but I bought a 3 polyp acan frag for $80 recently. It was the red/blue type. I also got a nice aquacultured purple tipped A. Granulosa with white polyps for $45.

I am sure as the micros go up they are going down. I don't think they should really cost more then a nice favia but that is just me.

 

[Anonymous]

Reef: They're a dying fad my friend! I saw three of them suckers at the BAR frag swap and that was just with a glance at the table, I didn't even really go looking through stuff. These were the Lords though, don't know how far they go as far as rare *shrug*

 

[Anonymous]

Mike, thats only cause we did a good job of getting people to bring 'rare' stuff to the swap!

 

[Anonymous]

I don't know if they were ever actually 'rare', depending on how you define that word. There are plenty of them in asia, but few of them in the states.
I think rare is a local issue. I also think popular is a better word - rare is marketing speak.

 

[Unarce]

They're a dying fad my friend!

Did you get anything good at the swap, Mike?

I never bought any. I figured since they grow fast and are easy to maintain, that they won't stay rare for long. Glorified favias, really.

I don't know if they were ever actually 'rare', depending on how you define that word. There are plenty of them in asia, but few of them in the states.
I think rare is a local issue. I also think popular is a better word - rare is marketing speak.

It sucks how it was given the rare tag when their quite common in the wild. They're just restricted.

 

[Anonymous]

Did you get anything good at the swap, Mike?

Don't know if it's good (I'm not a big "rare" type person, only been in the hobbie about a year and a half so I'm a noobie with that regards), I got some of that green nephawhoozits which looks pretty cool, some little purple mouthed (mostly brown) zoos, devils hand, and I did get one of Jim's Blue/Red chalice frags, I'll see how well I can keep that, I really wanted to get my 120 tank invert only tank up so I can have my "pristine" water, but didn't exactly happen as quickly. Overall I'm happy, now granted we had a fragging demo the month prior and I got 15 frags from that so wasn't expecting to top that my favorite is the purple polyped one I posted in that thread that had the superman in it or something. I really would have liked some nice softies though, the green neph is nice but expected a tad more in the way of zoanthids, my brown zoo starter packs went in the first round though *laugh*

I never bought any. I figured since they grow fast and are easy to maintain, that they won't stay rare for long. Glorified favias, really.

Hahahahah yah when I first saw that I asked my LFS owner, "how come favias are selling for $100 a polyp". And it really got disgusting when you started seeing ebay selling Acan Lord??? and idiots paying for those as well.