+Hydro Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 I only have smaller frags, between 1/4" to 1/2". These have been fragged from single coralites and are several months old. I'm quite sure you will not find this coral anywhere for sale unless you buy it from the handful of people that have bought frags from me locally. Its colors range from turqoise in my old tank to an emerald green in my new tank. The mother colony is now about 6" tall with very thick branches (1.5" across) and very long coralites. All frags start out green with blue tips, its a fast grower that can handle all the light that you throw at it. Exoticfrags.us is wanting to sell this coral at $125 per 1/4" but so far I have sold out here before I could ship them any until now. I have a few 1/4"+ frags that are starting to encrust and I have (2) 1/2" frags that are almost completely encrusted. I will be sending the frags that I have ready to exoticfrags.us at the end of this week, after that it will be a couple of months before I would have any more ready to go since I'm only fragging tiny pieces and then growing them out. This being one of the more rare corals around my prices are firm but I'm open to high end trades. 1/4"-1/2" $100 1/2" plus $125 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medi Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 hmm.....very tempting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlloyd123 Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 is that named after your son? just wondering Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hydro Posted August 8, 2010 Author Share Posted August 8, 2010 Yes it was. After purchasing the colony I literally spent hours and hours trying to find out what it was and couldn't find anything even similiar. I asked where I bought it from and they had no idea, I asked the wholesalers who they bought it from and they had no idea, I even asked places like exoticfrags.us who also is part of coralpedia.com, they had no idea either. When I bought the coral it didn't look anything like it does now, it was brown and much smaller. The only reason I bought it was b/c of the unusual growth pattern. It took about 6 months for it to start to color up and it took a year for me to able to frag some of it. It can't be cut without it being really ugly so I had to wait until the corallites were large enough to break off to start some frags. It takes months for the frags to start growing but once they do it grows pretty fast. For it to completely encrust a plug takes about 6 months, this is one of the reason for the high cost of the frags. All of the frags that I'm offering are at least 4 months old. The color is like a hawkins exchinata but the growth pattern is strange. One side of the coral grows like a typical tort, like a cali tort, but the other side is tabling. It had to be named and it was really hard for me to decide. There was no way to tie in the color or the growth pattern in to the name, so I named it after my son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jlloyd123 Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 That's awesome man. I remember u telling me about it before when I was over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offroadodge Posted August 8, 2010 Share Posted August 8, 2010 glad to see we didnt kill it during the setup of rockwork. It will bring u plenty of $$$$$ in the future. And with this post I hit the 1000 post mark YEAH!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hydro Posted August 9, 2010 Author Share Posted August 9, 2010 No it made it just fine. Maybe one day I will at least break even on the tank lol! I doubt it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mcallahan Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 The pictures above are good, but don't do this coral justice. The color is amazing - way better than hawkins enchinata - and I've never seen a growth pattern like it. If you had this coral in your tank, it could easily be the "prize" coral and once it gets going I promise it would be the coral that everyone was asking about, and asking you to frag! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hydro Posted August 9, 2010 Author Share Posted August 9, 2010 Thanks Mark, I'm glad that your frag wasn't damaged in the rock slide! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mcallahan Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 Did you know that if you buy this coral, you'll be buying the coral named after the kid (Hydro's kid) in the Huggies Jeans Diapers commercial?! One day that kid will be super famous, and you'll have the coral named after hint. HINT: its an investment in your future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offroadodge Posted August 9, 2010 Share Posted August 9, 2010 LOL...well if MArks got it then i GOTTA have it too. Dangit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hydro Posted August 9, 2010 Author Share Posted August 9, 2010 lol You know that I sent the youtube link of that commercial to my sister and told her that it was Corbin. It looks so much like him that she believed me...lol. I told here after a couple of days, I waited untl she told a lot of people first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hydro Posted August 9, 2010 Author Share Posted August 9, 2010 LOL...well if MArks got it then i GOTTA have it too. Dangit You want me to put your name on the biggest frag? I'm open to trades... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offroadodge Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 ok, I'll have to see what we could trade. Maybe u can make a trip 2 c tank and decide on what would be a good trade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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