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If you had $500 bucks burning a hole in you're pocket and wanted some nice sps frags where would you're first choice be?

 

I've been looking and looking, and keep finding great sites with prices pretty much even.

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Talk to your local fish store. You may get colonies for the price of the small frags offered online. Your LFS may buy livestock from the same wholesalers as the major online retailers.

 

 

Clarification: You can get full colonies at $60-80 compared to small 3/4" frags around the same ball park figure. You would be selecting based on the WYSIWYGS LFS get. Just speak to the owner about what you are looking for and what your price range per piece is and I am pretty sure you can work something out.

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Talk to your local fish store. You may can get colonies for the price of the small frags offered online. Your LFS may buy livestock from the same wholesalers as the major online retailers.

Clever thinking.

 

I've been very happy with the SPS I got from Unique Corals in the last couple weeks. Both were considerably bigger than advertised and had great color. Packaging is amazing.

 

Though, for $500 you'll qualify for free shipping with pretty much any online retailer out there. Cherry Corals has really nice stuff, but I don't want to pay for their shipping on my small orders.

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I think RC has a section for peopel that make frag packs and there and there are usually some good sales like $400-500 for 10+ frags. Theres also some guy called Mike Biggar on FB that has CRAZY sps frags. He's local and has some real nice stuff but idk if he ships



Most LFS's wont special order and give you wholesale pricing. They'll probably do $75-80 on the colonies.

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I know it's driving me crazy with all the Effin choices.

 

Pacific east aquaculture

Fishnreef

Vivid aquarium

Battle corals

 

So far that's who I'm looking at!!!!!! Seriously this is getting out of hand with choices.

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If you had $500 bucks burning a hole in you're pocket and wanted some nice sps frags where would you're first choice be?

 

I've been looking and looking, and keep finding great sites with prices pretty much even.

 

 

Send Darwin @ Legendary Corals a PM. I bet he will make you up a nice deal. Hes great to work with.

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Have you tried talking to Glenn yet? He doesn't have much on the site, but I know he was cooking up some primo SPS recently.

 

Aside from that, I'd go pacific for the clam 3 pack, then use the rest of the money on SPS. They also have that reef Gen pre order going on, I'd hop on that like a bad habit if I wasn't currently in a holding pattern live stock wise.

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Talk to your local fish store. You may get colonies for the price of the small frags offered online. Your LFS may buy livestock from the same wholesalers as the major online retailers.

 

 

Clarification:

 

You can get full colonies at $60-80 compared to small 3/4" frags around the same ball park figure. You would be selecting based on the WYSIWYGS LFS get in or see online from their wholesalers. Just speak to the owner about what you are looking for and what your price range per piece is and I am pretty sure you can work something out. If not move on to the next.

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If you had $500 bucks burning a hole in you're pocket and wanted some nice sps frags where would you're first choice be?

 

I've been looking and looking, and keep finding great sites with prices pretty much even.

Battle corals, ARC, RMF, WWC, other hobbyists for high end.

Many places have larger colonies for reasonable prices.

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Send a message to Copps (John Coppolino) on Reef-Central. His tank is only 1300 gallons and has some top notch stuff. Plus the frags are huge, not an inch or two.

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If you had $500 bucks burning a hole in you're pocket and wanted some nice sps frags where would you're first choice be?

 

I've been looking and looking, and keep finding great sites with prices pretty much even.

 

Trick question, turns out your car needed new brakes.

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Send a message to Copps (John Coppolino) on Reef-Central. His tank is only 1300 gallons and has some top notch stuff. Plus the frags are huge, not an inch or two.

 

Copps is really good. Miss being local to him

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Trick question, turns out your car needed new brakes.

 

Can't begin to tell you how many times that has happened to me, something's broke or needs fixing and there went my the money for my hobby.

 

Now I have my stash of "man" money tucked away.....

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My advice: NEVER buy wild or maricultured SPS unless you have a quarantine tank, very large nutrient rich tank and are experienced with SPS care. Wild /maricultured survival is 50/50 at best and you are just asking for reef destroying pests that can be hard or impossible to get rid of. For the same price, I'll take an aquacultured 1" SPS frag over a wild one any day . My 2 cents and about what its worth.

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Can't begin to tell you how many times that has happened to me, something's broke or needs fixing and there went my the money for my hobby.

 

Now I have my stash of "man" money tucked away.....

 

Living this today, mad at my brakes for not warning me like my previous cars brakes have... guess I will have to not be lazy and look now.

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My advice: NEVER buy wild or maricultured SPS unless you have a quarantine tank, very large nutrient rich tank and are experienced with SPS care. Wild /maricultured survival is 50/50 at best and you are just asking for reef destroying pests that can be hard or impossible to get rid of. For the same price, I'll take an aquacultured 1" SPS frag over a wild one any day . My 2 cents and about what its worth.

He is then very limited on sps. Only VERY FEW online retailers actually have true aquacultured pieces. Most sell maricultured pieces and say it is in their growout. You won't know because it is chopped down and glued. I can't count on my hands how many vendors I have seen that say they are selling pieces that they have in their grow-out (mother colony pic) but I saw the exact same sps with the same shape on a wholesaler's daily/weekly list either the same week or the prior week.

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My advice: NEVER buy wild or maricultured SPS unless you have a quarantine tank, very large nutrient rich tank and are experienced with SPS care. Wild /maricultured survival is 50/50 at best and you are just asking for reef destroying pests that can be hard or impossible to get rid of. For the same price, I'll take an aquacultured 1" SPS frag over a wild one any day . My 2 cents and about what its worth.

 

He is then very limited on sps. Only VERY FEW online retailers actually have true aquacultured pieces. Most sell maricultured pieces and say it is in their growout. You won't know because it is chopped down and glued. I can't count on my hands how many vendors I have seen that say they are selling pieces that they have in their grow-out (mother colony pic) but I saw the exact same sps with the same shape on a wholesaler's daily/weekly list either the same week or the prior week.

 

From my limited knowledge of reading on sps care, sps that is purchased as a frag vs a colony tends to fare better in a new system because they grow into a system based on its flow and lighting. When its colony shape doesn't match the flow pattern being run in a new tank bad happens. I hear this being especially common with birdsnests. I would imagine maricultured or not, tiny frags would be a lot easier to de-pest than full colonies.

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From my limited knowledge of reading on sps care, sps that is purchased as a frag vs a colony tends to fare better in a new system because they grow into a system based on its flow and lighting. When its colony shape doesn't match the flow pattern being run in a new tank bad happens. I hear this being especially common with birdsnests. I would imagine maricultured or not, tiny frags would be a lot easier to de-pest than full colonies.

 

true to an extent. If your system doesn't meet the requirements of that pieces then you may lose regardless if a frag or full colony. Compared to a small frag, you can frag a colony into multiple pieces and those will be backups in case one piece RTNs. As for pests, just dip and quarantine. It also helps to remove the base rock if it has one. I would rather lose multiple parts of a colony, having backups than to pay the same amount on a small frag which is the only one I have and lose it.

 

B.L.U.F.F. - most of the frags from online are chop shop pieces.

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