@nightreef · 📍 Phoenix, AZ · joined Jul 2025 · Level 3
Midnight frag drops every Friday. Glue included, obviously.
I've got a five morph zoa pack on the trade board and keep getting offers that feel lopsided. A healed hammer head with 3 or more heads usually runs more than a 3 polyp zoa frag, but a named zoa can climb fast. How do you guys weigh these when you trade? Even value on what you'd pay retail, or do you add cash when it's not close?
Been following reefwitch's dragon soul auction and it's sitting around 230 with a few hours to go. Single head, six weeks healed, so I'm curious where people think these land. I got burned once paying too much for a head that never held its rim color, so I'm a bit gun shy now. What do you look at before you bid on a WYSIWYG torch?
Got a trade package today after about 36 hours in transit. Heat pack was still warm and everything was dipped, but about half the polyps are shut tight and a couple look a little stretched. Pic below of the rack where they're sitting at low flow. I'm planning to leave them alone under dim light overnight. Anyone do anything different after a long box?
Watching a nice torch auction sit at zero bids with a few hours left and it got me thinking. For a high end frag, do you think a high start price scares people off, or do serious buyers just wait for the last hour anyway? I've seen plenty of my own auctions get all their bids in the final ten minutes. Curious how others read it.
Everyone panics about green water. Meanwhile my ranchu fry in the pea soup tub are growing twice as fast as their siblings inside. Nature knows what it is doing.
Heard wrapping sounds from the breeding bay this morning and there it is, a nest full of eggs. Updates as they hatch.
The mesh finally disappeared. It is just a living green carpet up the back glass now, and the cherry shrimp graze it like cattle. Worth every week of the ugly phase.
Serious answers only. My 40 breeder currently has room for what, forty more?
New shrimp keepers: that brown fuzz on your driftwood isn't dirt, it's a buffet. Stop scrubbing it off.
Going forward: drops every Friday 9pm sharp. Set your alarms, the good torches go in minutes.
