[Sk8r]

Total outsider here: I'm good with lps and would like an acan---just because they're pretty. But I have my price limit, which is not even on the horizon of these prices.

Seems to me that skill in fragging plays a certain part here, too. Any novice can frag a 'headed' coral or an acropora.

Takes a bit more skill to frag a wall coral. Can do, no problem, if I know the species.

Acans and brain, etc, are a bit dicier, and their very expense prevents people experimenting around, I'll bet. Who wants to take a whack at a 350.00 coral with the near certainty of losing a couple of polyps? Not too many, likely.

So long as the price stays high, there won't be much fragging and in-tank propagation. So long as there isn't much in-tank propagation, the price will stay high.

Just my opinion.