Deal of a Lifetime - Looking to trade for the Ultimate Corals

myusername · #1 12/16/2007, 02:32 AM

I have the original watermelon. I bought it from Hugo and I am looking to do a trade for the ultimate corals. So the question is do you have the ultimate coral and if you do please post it on this thread but I am also looking to do a trade for a reef tank also minimum of 150 gallons. If you would like to see what the watermelon chalice is that I have by all means look on
http://www.reeffarmers.com/limitedwatermelon.htm
Please reply if you are only seriously interested.
Thank you - Charles.

JOSE CASAS · #2 12/16/2007, 02:40 AM

I have some stuff you might be interested in.

nava405 · #3 12/16/2007, 02:44 AM

what excatly are ulimate corals anyway? anything more expansive than 100bucks ?

myusername · #4 12/16/2007, 03:29 AM

The question you should ask is what is the ultimate coral to you and what would be equivalent to the original watermelon? You are trying to put a dollar sign on a trade.
Thank you for your interest.
Charles

gps · #5 12/16/2007, 03:40 AM

I think there is a dollar value on everything....

I'd have asked the same question if I am interested in that piece of coral....

myusername · #6 12/16/2007, 03:42 AM

we are only talking about a trade. not for sale.

jaypainter24 · #7 12/16/2007, 04:14 AM

I have some ultimate rare brown w/ brown ring zoos for trade. LOL

gps · #8 12/16/2007, 04:23 AM

I think what he meant was how would you define ultimate? Does it mean it's an endangered species, i.e., rare; or, does it mean something that is exuberantly irrationally expensive, i.e., more than $1K?

Mac Inger · #9 12/16/2007, 04:26 AM

I will trade my soul...

All Clear · #10 12/16/2007, 10:10 AM

i have a piece of ultimate stag. from greg carol?

Joe Kelley · #11 12/16/2007, 10:22 AM

That is mind blowing!!! Is it as easy to care for as other echinophillias? I loved my blue., !~) Good luck with your trades Charles, that is truly a nice coral.

When you guys refer to a rare or ultimate coral, could you please show a photo or link, because I've been out of the hobby for a while and there is new stuff to see.

Thanks.

joe

Bebo77 · #12 12/16/2007, 12:21 PM

arent all LE corals original? or should i ask when do they not become original? i have bought many LE from Eric... an i consider them to be original...

JOSE CASAS · #13 12/16/2007, 01:29 PM

I think what he is tryng to say is colorful and rare.Now some people had offers but no pix.What is up with that?

laverda · #14 12/16/2007, 02:11 PM

For me it means people are willing to pay stupid amounts of money for little tiny frags. But thats just me!

gcarroll · #15 12/16/2007, 03:59 PM

I'll trade.

myusername · #16 12/16/2007, 05:28 PM

one fo the corals that Im looking at is the "Ice Fire" SPS.

coast2coast7390 · #17 12/16/2007, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gps
I think there is a dollar value on everything....

exactly...nothing is free

coast2coast7390 · #18 12/16/2007, 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bebo77
arent all LE corals original? or should i ask when do they not become original? i have bought many LE from Eric... an i consider them to be original...

all this talk about originallity is reminding me of my SAT essay i took in october...on how no one is completely original

for me its not original after there are more than one...only the first one is original...but it had to come from somewhere...

this coral may be the original from Hugo...but there are others before it that havent been collected in the wild

PasadenaReefer · #19 12/16/2007, 08:35 PM

well that coral the "hugo" had that now myusername has is the coral that is so well known among all the reefers on this, there for its original because its a frag of the piece that everyone fell in love with? And i would also like to know if there is a definition or certain kind of coral that relates to ultimate coral?

bigian · #20 12/16/2007, 08:57 PM

I think by ultimate, Charles just means an LE, rare or popular sought after corals... Many people have the sunset monti, purple monster, pink lemonade, oregon tort so now they arent rare, but they are sought after by those that havent yet aquired them.

Some may think the LE status is bull, but they are ALL nice, none the less...

coast2coast7390 · #21 12/16/2007, 08:58 PM

so its a frag of the original...and not the original piece

xtm · #22 12/16/2007, 09:45 PM

I am culturing a rare type of red bugs species that don't eat Acropora. LMK if you're interested.

All Delight · #23 12/16/2007, 10:20 PM

Keep in mind Charles is looking for more then one ultimate coral as the title states, its plural.

I think it would help alot if Charles would post a picture of "his" watermelon so we know exactly what we're getting.

But if it hasn't been trimmed down since the last time I saw it, that piece can be made into probably 15 frags if not more.

snipersps · #24 12/16/2007, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by All Delight
Keep in mind Charles is looking for more then one ultimate coral as the title states, its plural.

I think it would help alot if Charles would post a picture of "his" watermelon so we know exactly what we're getting.

But if it hasn't been trimmed down since the last time I saw it, that piece can be made into probably 15 frags if not more.

His piece come from this colony

PasadenaReefer · #25 12/16/2007, 11:39 PM

nice, how fast/slow does that grow? i have a Purple with Pink mouth Chalice that doesnt seem to grow much.