When is enough enough?

[beerfish]

With the exceedingly high prices on chalices and zoas, (are acans still hot or are they, like, totally last month), I'm just wondering when people's eyes start rolling back into their heads.

So let's have it. What's your price point for a coral. Will you spend $800 on a one eyed chalice, or do you max out out $10 frags?

Personally, I wouldn't spend that kind of money on the holy grail, so forget about a one eyed chalice. I tend to stay on the cheaper side and let my frags grow out, unless it's a very slow grower. I don't have a problem spending $60-$80 on a big lobo as a showpiece, but a zoa polyp or 1/2" frag of SPS I try to keep to $25-$35.

 

[rookie07]

What a shame, I happen to be selling the Holy Grail for $800

 

[beerfish]

Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen... Uh, he's already got one, you see?

Bonus points if you happen to know where that's from.

 

[SWITCH420]

i only buy cheaper frags will not spend more 30-40 bucks. mostly 20 dollar frags here i like watching em grow out also

 

[Quang]

I start double guessing myself when I pay spend more than $50 on any single livestock item--- fish, coral, invert...

 

[cowfish]

I started laughing the first time I saw a 1 inch chalice frag for $100. A few years ago you could of bought a 6 inch colony for $40. In a few years the price will be way down. The only thing sillier than chalices is spending uber $ on Super Rare Ultra Colored Limited Edition zoanthid polyp.

But hey, if you got the cash and that's what you want to do with it, knock yourself out.

 

[cowfish]

Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen... Uh, he's already got one, you see?

Bonus points if you happen to know where that's from.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

 

[beerfish]

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

We have a winner... now explain again how sheeps' bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

Sorry... Monty Python Geek...

 

[darkdrako]

I fart in the general direction of overly expensive frags!

 

[jerl77]

when crazy people stop buying them

 

[beerfish]

So it seems like most people are looking to spend less... anyone out there buying these really expensive ones want to chime in? I don't think there's anything wrong with it, I just personally won't do it.

 

[sharkbait69]

I buy what?s nice, I have paid a little more then my wife needs to know about.
I hate the designer name that everyone gives a coral to amp up price. Purple hornets this, mummy eye that, pink boobie this. I could see if someone was in a lab making the coral but they are not. Some island slave got pushed off a boat and told don't come up till you have a cool coral. So in so in Cali wants cool coral to rip other hobbyist off with.
sure, i pay the price for a coral. As it grows, I share the coral within my local hobbyist.
My goal is to get a coral to grow. when it gets bigger i frag it out and sell it off cheaper then i paid for it. I may have been known to pay anywhere up to 400 for a frag but it grows and i sell 4 frags for a 100 i made my money back. I like to think i help spread the coral around and drown the retail raping he hobbyist all for a name.
I can't wait for the new coach chalice or Gucci acan. My wife will really be into the tank then.
Not naming names but look at certain coral hacker that has a picture with some island slave. He?s all ah smile while poor islander looks like she?s got a gun pointed at her from behind the camera.

 

[NYreefNoob]

no one wants to spend alot of money on anything, but you get what you pay for, some thing's are way over priced to me, so i just dont buy them. as corals become abundant the price drop's, alot of chalices grow really slow hence the pricing,

 

[beerfish]

So you're saying guns don't kill people... expensive corals kill people? lol

I agree with you on the designer names though. I personally like the look of some of the expensive corals, but it doesn't take away from the look of the less expensive ones I like.

 

[beerfish]

no one wants to spend alot of money on anything, but you get what you pay for

I don't always think that's the case with coral. A nice colored SPS isn't as much fun to watch as pulsing xenia, but can be a lot more expensive.

 

[NYreefNoob]

oh no not the plagued xenia, fun my azz to watch, watch it take ur tank over lol. in general if you want something with bright colors and good colors your going to pay more, in recent years as importers begun to realize what these pieces are selling for they have raised prices as well, which is trickle effected down to us

 

[beerfish]

Xenia is awesome as long as you isolate it! lol

I don't have a problem with the prices... just wondering what people are willing to spend and what their rationale is.

 

[NYreefNoob]

most i have spent on 1 live item was $250 and it died 3 days later lol, then a pair of flames $250 died 3 days later, then $100 for a 8 line flasher wrasse died 3 days later, lol usually no more then a $100 for something for me

 

[MIKE NY]

when crazy people stop buying them

x2....It's only worth what someone is willing to spend and with corals it's always the latest fad.....I only buy things I like not because it's the piece to have....in recent years it's been SPS like efflos, tables, and anything from ORA..now the LPS and zoos which were cheap a few years ago..

 

[reefman]

it all narrows down to supply n demand. as long as no one buys $800 designer frags(frags with a fancy name), that market will not exist for long.