这是一个reallylong time since we shared some interesting and unique corals from around the web. With more online coral vendors than ever before we only got through a few pages of google search results before we had more than enough appetizers of bite size coral frags to make a compelling spread.
We scoured over two dozen different coral vendors and a few things struck us about the current climate of online live coral frag sales. The first striking aspect we noticed is that there is a huge gap between the quality of how the corals are photographed and represented with some dealers opting for very realistic daylight photos, and others which we didn’t include are pushing the saturation slider to 100% and clearly misrepresenting what they are selling.
我们看到的另一个令人反感的趋势是，公司将愚蠢的名字放在珊瑚上，这些珊瑚清楚地被切碎，尤其是水上养殖，尤其是大型息肉石质珊瑚 - 完全构成了可以推动更多珊瑚的名称；it’s one thing to put some effort into growing corals, taking pride in what you grow and attaching your ‘brand’ to these tank grown corals but it’s just nonsense to try and name every LPS coral, especially those which are just single solitary polyps like Fungias, Trachies and Cynarinas.
至少对于真正的珊瑚鉴赏家而言，一件好事是，客观上有很多稀有和罕见的珊瑚物种以完全错误的名称和令人震惊的低价出售。下面共享的一些珊瑚包括颜色鲜艳梅鲁琳娜，超级迷宫的大脑瘦素，罕见的acanthastreaRotundoflora，a few very rareCoscinaraea，有些非常有吸引力，很便宜Pachyseris。
与往年购物的现场珊瑚碎片相比，这些天在网上在线销售现场珊瑚的人压倒了。No one has a monopoly on rare and unusual corals and we’re just glad to know that if you cast a very wide net and really take some time looking at the offerings, there’s still tons of awesome, legitimately rare corals to be had for reasonable prices, just because they are not part of the hype of Tenuis and Torches.
