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Topic: Monti question

Posted By: cba191
Subject: Monti question
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 1:09pm

I've been looking around and am amazed at the prices of some of these things. $1500 for a tiny little frag? What makes these so expensive? Are they hybrids or something?

This is just an example, but there are tons of threads like this.

http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/joe-knows-reefs/86565-what-you-see-what-you-get.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/joe-knows-reefs/86565-what-you-see-what-you-get.html

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Posted By: ch3tt
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 1:29pm

Those are actually chalices, They are expensive because they are rare and look at the colors, they are stunning!

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Posted By: cba191
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 1:56pm

the colors are definitely incredible.

Corals are confusing my feeble mind.

I admit I want some of those chalices though.

Posted By: ch3tt
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 2:00pm

it takes time to learn about coral, but it is a fascinating subject to study. Yeah if i had a few thousand laying around i wouldn't mind some of those chalices also. However there are other chalices that have pretty amazing color that are quite affordable.

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Posted By: Trevor40
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 2:33pm

After a few years of collecting and being familiar with most or all of the chalice names I might sell a few and buy a nice ultra rare peice. I think those $1500 pieces are for people who just don't get the same feelings they use to looking at a coral they have seem a thousands of times and in everyone's tank. As an exame when I was a newbie I would get excited to see plain old mushrooms and other simple corals and now you couldn't pay me to have them take up precious real estate in my tanks.

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Posted By: cba191
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 2:43pm

that makes sense