If You Thought the Snowflake or the Wyoming White Was Cool, ORA has Done One Better!

viperfish · #1 08-09-2011, 03:14 AM

Check out the Black Snowflake!

http://www.orafarm.com/blog/2011/08/...ck-snowflakes/

Nebthet · #2 08-09-2011, 04:48 AM

Those are basically the same thing as the smores that have been out for a while now.

Timbits · #3 08-09-2011, 12:01 PM

OMG they finally did it!

that is amazing

viperfish · #4 08-09-2011, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Nebthet

Those are basically the same thing as the smores that have been out for a while now.

I guess a Powder Blue Tang is "basically" the same as a Powder Brown in that case LOL! According to ORA they are all black with white markings, nether the Black Ice or Smores were completely black.

fishytime · #5 08-09-2011, 03:19 PM

cool looking fish but I dont "get" why people pay $300 for one

globaldesigns · #6 08-09-2011, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

cool looking fish but I dont "get" why people pay $300 for one

I agree

fishytime · #7 08-09-2011, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by globaldesigns

I agree

to me its kinda like if you would cross a shih tzu with a poodle, call it a shitpoo and then charge $1500 for it.....its still a "mutt"!...... but hey, to each his own

Myka · #8 08-09-2011, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

cool looking fish but I dont "get" why people pay $300 for one

The reason is simple; some people like them enough to pay the asking price. Limited availability is what keeps captive bred "designers" at higher price points.

Wild caught fish usually have unique reasons for high price tags like inhabiting excessively deep waters or areas where permits are difficult to obtain. Some people like these fish enough that they are willing to pay $600 for a Black Tang, or $1200 for a Candy Basslet, or $20,000 for a Peppermint Angelfish.

albert_dao · #9 08-09-2011, 06:30 PM

Like most things priced out of the average, the value is only arbitrarily absurd to the onlooker.

#10 08-09-2011, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by fishytime

cool looking fish but I dont "get" why people pay $300 for one

Because a lot of people like myself love the black clowns. And the rarer the pattern the better looking.

Myself bought a domino clownfish. I got him for 150 bucks. But in the past year I have only seen one other hobbyist with one. But I've seen about a million picassos and ordinary percs and ocellaris'. So you get what you pay for if you want beautiful. Original and exotic than order one of these. If you want a reg clown. Go visit big ALS.