Randy-S

Is the cost of a coral always just hype or can a coral be worth $50. or $100 per frag? Example is the Oregon Tort. Even if you do not know the name or hype behind the coral it is still one of the best looking corals in any tank, and IMO worth the $50. to have it.

Don't get me wrong I think Tyree LE is the biggest Rip on the net, just for the fact he is really not a frag farmer but a chop shop.

Hard to get corals will always demand a high price are they worth it? depends on you. I posted pics of PD Palys in another thread. Those are selling for $50+ per polyp are they worth it?

Could you go buy a whole rock of avg zoas from a LFS for less? yes. Will you find these in your LFS zoa tank I don't think so. Are they worth $50 depends on you.

I would never and I mean never drop $600.00 for a iphone Why I don't see the value. On the other hand I would drop $1000 for a skimmer for my tank. Go figure.

One last thought its also tough to discuss cost of goods and demand among a population when the population being compared are not equal. One person being compared may make 80k a year with no kids and has a lot of extra income to that person $500.00 is not much money. If you have a family of four and only make 25k its a different world.

just my .02

The PD open up right away and are very very cool. The PPE took two days to open up but now that they are I am very impressed with them.

330 gal tank one hour a week. Once a month two hours when i do a water change and hit coraline.

Inkto the Ponapae Torch looks pretty good. What ones did you lose?

Been doing some trading and came up with these lil beuat's

Purple Death Paly,s

True PPE

Nuc Green Paly

The purple unknown is a very cool coral. i know Travis did not have much luck with his. i would love to see a shot of it. even a poor one.

Man what a crappy pic. I had to crop the photos just so you can see them.

I think its been over a year since the club had Tyree as a speaker. Of course when he came up he brought a lot of frags with him. So lets see what happen to them any one got pics of there Tyree LE corals?

I only purchased one coral from him the not so purple monster. For my $100.00 he gave me a sliver I would say 1/4" brown frag. here it is a year or so later. its not the show coral I was hoping for yet but, its getting better.

So lets see them... SHOW ME YOUR LE's!!!!

Sorry about the crappy pics its hard to photo its deep in my tank.

Travis mention a new supplier, how did they look. JR got time for any pics?

Is it that they are turning yellow and dying or that the pods eat them? You could treat with interceptor to get rid of the pods. Not sure if it would help.

Bravo for pointing out how dumb people are, on our board. Another great post Piero.

probably for the sump, but it's shocking to me how many people didn't learn in school:

 

'your' is not the same as 'you're'

'there' is no the same as 'their' or even 'they're'

'our' is not the same as 'are'

'to' is not the same as 'two' or 'too'

Have we serched there site for dried seahorse yet?? Or Tiger blood or gorrilla hand ash trays?

You think they would be more aware of there own stock and merchandise for sell.

Or is Amazon stand for were they collect there goods to sell?

Unfortunately the LFS is only making $12.00 on the book and had to front the money to carry it.

Lets hear a review on the ati!

well my livestock supplier thread has turned into another trade reform debate....I'm stayin out of this round, but it's still interesting. I like the 'we have the recipe bu the cooks don't know how to cook" metaphore.

When over half your posts are critical of the hobby you wonder why they turn into heated debates or why people get fustrated with you.??? Funny.

25 reef plugs $4.49

priority mail service $5.00

extra hours of my life saved not making reef plugs- priceless

Seems all of the LFS are out, so I thought I would give a shout here before getting them off the net.

Looking for something like these. http://www.chiefreef.com/

Thanks

I think the back pressure that the beckett would cause would not harm the pump.

I am worried that the current bulkhead is one inch put in place for the pci pump and the darts intake is 1.5 or 2 inches. I cannot replace the bulkhead it would be to large of a project.

So I wounder how hard the restricted intake is on the pump?

I run a PM XL on my reef and my pci70 just went t!ts up on me. i need to replace the pump so I can go buy one or I do have a sequence dart am not using.

The problem with the dart is two fold one its not pressure rated, but it does move three times the water then the pci 70 and two the bulkhead feeding the pci70 is smaller then the dart intake so if i did swap them the dart would have a reduce intake feed ingthe pump. Any comments?

Randy

Wow that wave box has your tank rock'en! My wife wound'ent be able to watch our tank with out getting sea sick if i had that bad boy.

yes it is and it has pretty cool white tips

Hey Travis I heard ol Rudes had some micros in did you by chace grab them?

skiddish??? I thought he was a terror from the deep!

Lets see pics of that new terror of the tank.