R2R LIVE SALE 3/5/22 SAT - Aqua SD 15th Year Anniversary LIVE SALE - Discounts, Games, Freebies, Fun!

[jkcoral]

Anyone else like gorgs?

 

[Manose]

I am so ready for this sale

 

[Fishfreak2009]

@AquaSD @TeamAquaSD is this the correct price for the Saturday shipping module for the live sale for those living outside Cali? I just want to make sure I'm not paying for the wrong thing.

Guess it doesn't matter now... I won a few SPS corals in the eBay auction tonight, so AquaSD is letting me use the $40 shipping as Saturday shipping Such an awesome vendor to work with! Wasn't even planning on doing the Ebay auction this week, but of course I couldn't sleep, and had to "just look" and see what was posted...

I really need to get the other reef tanks running.

 

[Silv3rSubieDude]

I think I had bids on about half your haul lol but I ended up with three myself anyway!

 

[Fishfreak2009]

I think I had bids on about half your haul lol but I ended up with three myself anyway!

It worked out pretty well. I've bought a lot of frags recently and these are different from all the other SPS I have.

 

[jkcoral]

AquaSD been pretty quiet. Kinda sus

 

[Beau_B]

The picture is absolute garbage, but hammers!

 

[Beau_B]

And… little blasto garden. They were growing fast and have now stopped, so that’s part of my “figure out what’s up” situation.

 

[MNFish]

I finally found the warpaint scoly my daughter wanted

Got it in the tank and she is super happy but thinks it might be a little lonely being the only scoly..... she is a lot like me

 

[Utubereefer]

AquaSD been pretty quiet. Kinda sus

It’s not quite its chill… SoCal style

 

[bondsgot73]

I think I had bids on about half your haul lol but I ended up with three myself anyway!

Don’t think I bid on his stuff but I definitely went after (unsuccessfully) some of the zoas, acans, BTAs, and RFAs last night.

 

[JoJosReef]

Don’t think I bid on his stuff but I definitely went after (unsuccessfully) some of the zoas, acans, BTAs, and RFAs last night.

Thise winter RFAs (the whitish ones) were really cool!

 

[Fishfreak2009]

Thise winter RFAs (the whitish ones) were really cool!

The white and purple one at the end of the auction was a stunner

 

[jkcoral]

Thise winter RFAs (the whitish ones) were really cool!

Like this one? I took a screenshot with an hour left because I couldn’t believe how high it had been bid!

It’s interesting that so many people liked the whiter ones. Those are actually pretty “basic” ones that you can find in knee deep water in FL (alongside plain greenish ones). “Ultra” RFAs (colorful ones) come from lower light areas in 30-45 feet of water (vs the plain ones you can collect in ankle/knee deep water).

Maybe people just aren’t as used to seeing them?

 

[TnFishwater98]

 

[Fishfreak2009]

Like this one? I took a screenshot with an hour left because I couldn’t believe how high it had been bid!

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It’s interesting that so many people liked the whiter ones. Those are actually pretty “basic” ones that you can find in knee deep water in FL (alongside plain greenish ones). “Ultra” RFAs (colorful ones) come from lower light areas in 30-45 feet of water (vs the plain ones you can collect in ankle/knee deep water).

Maybe people just aren’t as used to seeing them?

I really liked this one. Most of the rock flowers I see here in St Kitts are brown, white and brown, or green and white. I've seen some just like the one you posted, but never seen one with purple color.

 

[JoJosReef]

Like this one? I took a screenshot with an hour left because I couldn’t believe how high it had been bid!

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It’s interesting that so many people liked the whiter ones. Those are actually pretty “basic” ones that you can find in knee deep water in FL (alongside plain greenish ones). “Ultra” RFAs (colorful ones) come from lower light areas in 30-45 feet of water (vs the plain ones you can collect in ankle/knee deep water).

Maybe people just aren’t as used to seeing them?

Some of the "plain" corals can add a lot to your tank. I have a brown acan (<$5 ASD!) That, if it could speak would say "I love you soooo much!" It is puffy and looks so happy when I feed it.

 

[Fishfreak2009]

Some of the "plain" corals can add a lot to your tank. I have a brown acan (<$5 ASD!) That, if it could speak would say "I love you soooo much!" It is puffy and looks so happy when I feed it.

I completely agree with this. Fire coral colonies on the reef look magnificent and they are the color of Dijon mustard. Or my blue ridge coral. One of my favorite corals, and it grows into such unique looking colonies in a reef tank, but it is brown.

Heck, a lot of people consider gorgonians really plain, but that is because they don't fluoresce under the pure blue lighting that seems to be the latest craze. They're gorgeous corals.

I'll also note that all the corals on both frag racks came from AquaSD.

 

[jkcoral]

I really liked this one. Most of the rock flowers I see here in St Kitts are brown, white and brown, or green and white. I've seen some just like the one you posted, but never seen one with purple color.

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Do you travel/live in St Kitts? I haven’t been in years and there is some good diving there I want to experience! But yeah, a lot of those plain-ish white and gray ones can look pretty cool when under higher blue and violet UVs. They kind of “glow” a soft color of the lighting.

Some of the "plain" corals can add a lot to your tank. I have a brown acan (<$5 ASD!) That, if it could speak would say "I love you soooo much!" It is puffy and looks so happy when I feed it.

Absolutely agree with you. I intentionally go out of my way to make room for and collect some “plain” varieties of things. On one hand, I think they make others around them “pop” even more (like having a plain acan next to some really nice vibrant ones, or having “common” rock flowers mingling among bright and rarer ones).

That being said, I love and appreciate common corals and RFAs like the crazy ones, but I can’t bring myself to pay premium prices (e.g. $80 for one of those white RFAs) for “common” corals.

I completely agree with this. Fire coral colonies on the reef look magnificent and they are the color or Dijon mustard. Or my blue ridge coral. One of my favorite corals, and it grows into such unique looking colonies in a reef tank, but it is brown.

Heck, a lot of people consider gorgonians really plain, but that is because they don't fluoresce under the pure blue lighting that seems to be the latest craze. They're gorgeous corals.

I'll also note that all the corals on both frag racks came from AquaSD.

Those are sweet! Gorgonians are underrated and under appreciated! I only have photosynthetic gorgs, and they are super easy to care for and grow super fast. I think more people would like them if gorgs weren’t so often associated with being non photosynthetic and thus difficult to keep.

I like to describe them as an awesome mix of some traits from euphyllia and SPS. They some what resemble SPS corals (awesome polyps and polyp extension, branching, etc.) and are slightly rigid. But they sway and provide the great movement everyone loves from euphyllia!

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

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Anyone else like gorgs?

I literally put one in my tank on Saturday. would have been nice had I planned for it better, but looking forward to it growing up a little.