Queen Krakatoa Hype
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lol i had 2 both melted on me / never opened, i know someone that had to get like 4 before they didnt melt on him. Neptune rode in on the krak name train and jacked up the price. I've seen a few in person, they are okay, over priced to me, and i buy expensive zoas haha. I'm over the krakatoa melters... maybe im biased haha
This is not true at all, someone, somewhere is getting this zoa among other coral for pennies on the dollar and making 1000+% profit. This is not cool and no other hobby is like it, you can buy Jordans for retail $150? If you go camp out or get tickets for drawings, you don't have to pay 400+ that people flip them for...you can buy a pack of baseball cards for $5 and get that $100 card inside, you don't go and buy the card marked up.
The coral/fish market is the most twisted, money hungry market i've ever experienced, and it most definitely DOES NOT have to be like that. There are hobbyist out there that do not charge an arm and a leg for coral just because others are doing it and that's how it should be. Yet they in return are suspect to criticism and hate from people trying to pull ridiculous profits from the same thing.
If you have the money to blow on that LE piece only 5 other people in the country have then more power to you, you'll have bragging rights for at least a year or two. But it definitely doesn't warrant the ridiculous prices people ask for some of these corals.
The coral/fish market is the most twisted, money hungry market i've ever experienced, and it most definitely DOES NOT have to be like that. There are hobbyist out there that do not charge an arm and a leg for coral just because others are doing it and that's how it should be. Yet they in return are suspect to criticism and hate from people trying to pull ridiculous profits from the same thing.
If you have the money to blow on that LE piece only 5 other people in the country have then more power to you, you'll have bragging rights for at least a year or two. But it definitely doesn't warrant the ridiculous prices people ask for some of these corals.
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You have to sell the zoas for 10x the mark up in order to make the money for the next big zoa craze 
. I'm a huge zoa fan so I understand why some pay higher prices to add them to their collection. Geez I've seen 2 polyps online of another kind that went for over $2000. I guess if you have the money and want it why not? This hobby keeps me poor so I can't have any cool ones yet .
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. I'm a huge zoa fan so I understand why some pay higher prices to add them to their collection. Geez I've seen 2 polyps online of another kind that went for over $2000. I guess if you have the money and want it why not? This hobby keeps me poor so I can't have any cool ones yet . Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Its actually tough to be a cherry picker at most wholsalers. You have to get there when the choice stuff is first up for grabs. Fight the other dudes trying to do the same thing. Also the store needs to buy enough bread and butter to be able to purchase the cherry stuff. Even at the wholsalers there are only x amount of really nice cherry stuff.
