Red planet frag, how much????
 

Doug and I were having a debate on how much one should charge for a fairly small (less then an inch) frag of Red planet sps. Just wondering what would be a fair price? What would people be willing to pay for it?

I paid $20. I know of few people in the lower mainland that sell them regularly for $20-30.

I just gave away large 2" red planet frag.......it was either that or toss it out :neutral:

Is less then an inch really a frag?
I want to hear more about the debate:wink:

Interesting, we plan on growing out the frag a bit before selling. I've heard of stores selling frags for $80-$100 and I know it once was a highly sought after frag and really rare to get. Maybe that's changed?

Marie why would you toss it out????

I paid $75 for mine 2 years ago from Oceanic. The last frag I took off it went for $10 and that was twice the size of what I paid 75 for. . The other frag was given to someone.
I guess it depends on your local market. In Victoria, I couldn't sell more than one of these in 6 months, and not for more than $10. SPS keepers in town, for the most part, are really tough to separate from their money. I have pink lemonade frags that I can't give away.

Hmmm, that may change on May 5th :D

Notice that you aren't from Victoria :)

i just bought a 2" piece with prob 10 branches for $35 in town.

this coral grows like a weed it doesn't command the same price anymore as many have it...

Argentiner listed a bunch a few weeks back.

"Red Planet originally from Ocean Aquatics 2 or 3 years ago, $20"
These were for 1-2" frags

Seems as though everyone and their dog has the Red Planet these days. It is a bit of a weedy SPS but that's not a bad thing in this case. The demand is still high for the Red Planet but then so is the supply now.

I will add there is way less of it in E-town than there appears to be in Calgary and the wet coast.

I can't help but wonder what You and Doug think its worth

Frag
 

Great thread here.

When I first started in this hobby I really wanted a red planet frag. There are vendors in Calgary that were/are selling a 1" frag for fifty dollars. The attraction for me was because it was considered to be rare. Now that I've been in the hobby for about a year a lot of the tanks I've seen have red planets. Everyone's got them now and I now have no desire to pay a premium for a coral that is in every sps tank.

That being said and to answer your question, I would pay $15 for about a 2" frag. It's still a nice colourful piece. I just don't think it commands the price it used to. It's a supply and demand thing and it I think it's a common coral now.

I was thinking $20 to $40 and Laurie was thinking like $60.... And just to clarify, the frag is not just single 1" long branch, but a small cluster of nubs

I'd still pay 20 - 40 for a nice small cluster.

there are a lot around but they also still get bought up fast so it can be tough to find one.

$25 is what I'd consider the going rate over here, I have several frags of it and that's probably what I would ask for and they are over 1" with multiple nubs. But I rarely sell frags these days, better to use them for buying leverage at a certain store ;)

I got a branched 1" frag for $5. Beat that ;)

here at the store we sell small frags 1" -2" for $30 and 2-3" for $50

locally its a bit cheaper at $15-$30


seems to be a lot of it in calgary;)

i got two of my large pieces for free hehehehe :mrgreen::mrgreen:

I'm telling Dave you're stealing corals again

That doesn't count ;)

In my area if you get it from a fellow hobbyist it will prob run about $10-20 if it is colored up. If you get it from a shop it will probably will be around $30-40 because they have overhead and profit etc...

I picked up a 2" red planet frag from Denny at Concept last week for $30. Nice looking piece.

I usually sell large (3-4") multi branch frags for $50 and smaller (1-2") multi branch for $25. They don't sell as fast as they use to, but they do sell. That said , my colonies grow MUCH faster then I sell, and I am at the point where I will have to sell large chunks of it just to keep it in check. Supply is out weighing demand meaning prices are going down.

Kel

I'm guessing at this point we can conclude Laurie is wrong and Doug can commence victory dance.
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PLEASE tell me what you do to make it grow like a weed.
Mine's growing and coloring up nicely but significantly slower than the rest of my sps.
I have 3 frags in different places, and while the amount of light they get seems to change their coloration(more green vs red), the growth rate is the same.

I remember a year or so ago a 1" frag was $30-50 on here.
I think I paid $30 for the big one, and $10 ea for the 2 small less than 1" ones.

Its one weed I do not have yet, if anyone in ed wants to toss frags out I have a nice garbage bin sitting in my basement that looks a little empty still

+1. I just got some a few weeks ago and it's by far the fastest growing thing in my tank. In a way, this is a good thing - a super rare coral becomes democratized and the price falls because all the early adopters end up becoming producers over time. Imagine how cheap iPhones would be if simply by owning one, you could start to produce more of them in time.

What's even crazier is that the true red planet that's in half the SPS tanks the world over is all descended from a single colour morph of a single colony somewhere out in the Pacific. For all we know, that colony might have been the only one of the species with that particular colouration, which would mean there's probably more of it in tanks now than there ever was in the wild.

Red Planet would be a good case study to see what potential the informal trade networks of the reef hobby actually have for the conservation of coral biodiversity.

my piece from concepts wasn't very red at all but i saw and acted impulsively lol. it's looking better every day.

hey doug is the red planet in question grown from the frag i traded to you for the true undata?

Ok I confess Doug was right and I was wrong. Also I apologize for getting the size wrong, the lights were off and I couldn't remember what size it is. I do remember there being a few nubs on either side of it. It is a very nice red colour, l will take pics when I get home.

Yes it is, he accidentally broke off a piece from the colony yesterday.

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:lol: The tank lights were off and I was talking about the frag size Kien!

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^ pervert.

ive been looking for one of those!

they are rare here....one was just posted for sale on ap....small for for $120.

I still see these for 50-70 online in the u.s. Where it originated.

I got mine for FREE... I don't think they are as rare is they were.