If you’re just getting into the reef aquarium hobby, you might be astounded at the prices thatsome珊瑚正在努力。但是，如果您去过礁石水族馆的爱好，那么您肯定会注意到，通常，珊瑚价格的所有不同物种和珊瑚菌株都越来越高。
在我们深入高end of the coral market it’s really important to stress that there are很多of beautiful, attractive and colorful corals that don’t cost an arm and a leg. There’s more than enough affordable frags of hammer corals, green star polyps, zoanthids, clove polyps, leather corals, shrooms, Birdnest, Acros, Stylophora and many more to fill and grow out a beautiful reef tank without breaking the bank, this is a fact.
然而，大多数注意力，头条和炒作都围绕着新的和独特的珊瑚菌株和物种，这些珊瑚菌株和物种很容易获得其正常且广泛可用的同行的十倍。如果您想要最新，最明亮的珊瑚菌株，并且成为“第一波礁石”的一部分，可以在大多数情况下保留和种植这些珊瑚，您将为特权支付，但这就是炒作和时尚的麻烦。
Just as with fashion and cars and technology, it’s expensive to follow the trends and be part of the hype but the interesting flip side is that yesterday’s most desirable corals are today’s killer deals. With the exception of solitary corals such as Scolies, Acanthophyllia, Cycloseris, Cynarina和Trachyphyllia，所有其他殖民珊瑚都可以繁殖，珊瑚的上涨激励了越来越多的珊瑚礁建造者种植和水产养殖珊瑚。
Although it might sting to see corals that once cost $50 for a colony now regularly selling for $200 for a frag, but in the grand scheme of things it’s actually a good thing that corals have any ornamental value at all, and the rising prices are a reflection of the popularity and growth of the reef aquarium hobby all over the world. There’s certainly an important conversation to be had regarding the cost, price, and subjective value of corals and in the latest session of Reef Therapy we take a deep dive into the many factors that contribute to how corals are priced, and the various associated costs involved with both wild corals, and propagation.
You can watch or listen to our Reef Therapy Session in the video below or on any of your favorite podcasting platforms includingApple,Google， 和Spotify.
