Great News!

kyle1284 · 01-21-2007, 12:38 AM

great news... i have had a xeina that is growing like wildfire and i went to my LFS and he said that HE would frag it nad give me cold hard cash or store credit! so with that in mind the xeina has 3 trunks off of the main stump and there must be close to 75 pulsing heads on it.... question how much should i get for each head or one of the 3 trunks?

lgerold · 01-21-2007, 01:40 AM

Must be awesome! Got a picture?

meandean45 · 01-21-2007, 06:15 AM

It all depends on your' LFS, and what they need for stock. Right now my LFS has tons of Xenia, and won't take any even if you were to give it to them. When he has none, he's been known to pay $7 or $8 for good sized frags.
Haggle with him, but don't, 1.- Price yourself out of a sale. 2.- sell him so much that his stock of Xenia reproduces faster than he can sell it.
Happy Fragging!

Regards,
Dean

Woodstock · 01-21-2007, 07:13 AM

Fragacillin! The perfect medicine for reefitis

Ditto to meandean45

My lfs allows me to bring in my corals for store credit. I would suggest that if you have the room in your tank, to allow the xenia to begin growing on an overflow or back glass. I have found that they love these areas and will spread up towards the light. On these flat surfaces, they are super easy to scrap off too.

kinghokus420 · 01-21-2007, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Woodstock

I would suggest that if you have the room in your tank, to allow the xenia to begin growing on an overflow or back glass. I have found that they love these areas and will spread up towards the light. On these flat surfaces, they are super easy to scrap off too.

I'm doing this with some GSP's. so far so good. now i have a bright green lawn in progress on my back glass. i was going to do it with some xenia but they decided to melt on me.

BoomerD · 01-21-2007, 11:51 AM

I used to get $8/ frag of my xenia. Each decent size stalk made 1 frag. Don't count the individual heads, work by the number of decent sized stalks...Don't want to get greedy and price yourself out of business before you start!

kyle1284 · 01-21-2007, 03:49 PM

thanks for the advise everyone! when i saw what he had he had some single heads attached to a rock individually he does not have any stalks?

kyle1284 · 01-21-2007, 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by meandean45

2.- sell him so much that his stock of Xenia reproduces faster than he can sell it.
Happy Fragging!

Regards,
Dean

if i sell him a single stalk out of the 3 will he just cut each head and frag the stalk i sell him? tahts my main worry when you said that meandean45

kyle1284 · 01-21-2007, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by lgerold

Must be awesome! Got a picture?

ill post one up later on today after i clean the tank!

meandean45 · 01-21-2007, 04:27 PM

Like Boomer D said, sell him whole stalks. Most LFS's don't have time to do a lot of fragging, and would rather let you do the hard work for them. Two or three stalks at a time should be about right if it's a small operation, maybe a dozen at a time if he can sell all of them in two weeks. Congrats. and good luck.

Regards,
Dean

daveat · 01-21-2007, 05:07 PM

PM sent. incase i make anybody from my LFS mad by advertising prices!

01-21-2007, 12:38 AM	#1 (permalink)
kyle1284 Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huntsville, TX Posts: 910 View Gallery Karma Komment	Great News! great news... i have had a xeina that is growing like wildfire and i went to my LFS and he said that HE would frag it nad give me cold hard cash or store credit! so with that in mind the xeina has 3 trunks off of the main stump and there must be close to 75 pulsing heads on it.... question how much should i get for each head or one of the 3 trunks? __________________ KYLE 75 Gal 110 Lbs Live Rock 40 Lbs of live sand Equiptment:48 Inch 4x54 T-5 true blue and 10000k lights, 2 fuvual 305 Canister Filters Mis. Mushrooms, Fan Worms, hammer coral, frog spawn, candy cane, A TON OF TRUMPET CORAL!! orange plating monti, some kind of branching monti, pom pom xeina, all kinds of zoos BRIGHT GREEN star polyps, xeina, neon green toadstool, 3 damn damsles, a foxface and a blue tang. November 1...The begining! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random045.jpg November 8,2008 http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ristina034.jpg My 75 GALLON BAR TOP REEF TANK! http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...n-bar-top.html

01-21-2007, 01:40 AM	#2 (permalink)
lgerold Scopas Tang Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Brainerd, Mn Posts: 473 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Great News! Must be awesome! Got a picture? __________________ Lucy Upgrade from 125 long to 210 on 1/7/07. 66 gallon sump/refugium. 10 hrs of light: 500 watt pc actinic 10 hrs 400 watt pc daylight 6 hrs 500 watt MH 4 hrs 180 lbs branch liverock. 100 lbs + assorted liverock. 3"+ DSB. Fish - Foxface, Yellow Tang, Mimic Tang, 2 Tomato Clowns, pair True Percula Clowns (and their 6 inch pastel green carpet), Mandarin, Scooter Blenny, Bartlett's Anthias, Royal Gramma, Pseudochromis Splendens. Blue/Gold Crocea Clam, Teardrop Squamosa Clam Coral favorites include: 2 Acanastreas, Pink Cynaria, Green Cynaria, Birdsnest, Trumpets, Red and Pink and Green Goniporas (3), Frogspawn (peach favorite), Fox Coral, Diploastrea, Blasto, 3 Fungia (orange, purple, and green) and many others.

01-21-2007, 06:15 AM	#3 (permalink)
meandean45 Ricordea Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bradford, Vt., USA Posts: 177 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Great News! It all depends on your' LFS, and what they need for stock. Right now my LFS has tons of Xenia, and won't take any even if you were to give it to them. When he has none, he's been known to pay $7 or $8 for good sized frags. Haggle with him, but don't, 1.- Price yourself out of a sale. 2.- sell him so much that his stock of Xenia reproduces faster than he can sell it. Happy Fragging! Regards, Dean __________________ Meandean45 -RELATIVITY: "Sit on a red hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit next to a pretty Girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's Relativity". A.Einstein : "A man's got to know his limitations."- Clint Eastwood in "Magnum Force"

01-21-2007, 07:13 AM	#4 (permalink)
Woodstock The Wand Geek was here. ;) Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 21,673 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Great News! Fragacillin! The perfect medicine for reefitis Ditto to meandean45 My lfs allows me to bring in my corals for store credit. I would suggest that if you have the room in your tank, to allow the xenia to begin growing on an overflow or back glass. I have found that they love these areas and will spread up towards the light. On these flat surfaces, they are super easy to scrap off too. __________________ ~Doni Marie~ *GOT ICH???* ~120 Reef Chronicle ~ *~29 gal QT/Hospital tank~* *~3 gal Pico~* "Energy and persistence conquer all things." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ 120 mixed reef, dual Reeflux 10k 250 MH, dual Actinic t5s,AquaController III, ASM g3, 2x Korallia #3, Mag 9.5 return

01-21-2007, 11:51 AM	#6 (permalink)
BoomerD Reef Shark Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Northern California Posts: 5,234 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Great News! I used to get $8/ frag of my xenia. Each decent size stalk made 1 frag. Don't count the individual heads, work by the number of decent sized stalks...Don't want to get greedy and price yourself out of business before you start! __________________ Intelligence is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where and how to find them! www.google.com

01-21-2007, 03:49 PM	#7 (permalink)
kyle1284 Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huntsville, TX Posts: 910 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Great News! thanks for the advise everyone! when i saw what he had he had some single heads attached to a rock individually he does not have any stalks? __________________ KYLE 75 Gal 110 Lbs Live Rock 40 Lbs of live sand Equiptment:48 Inch 4x54 T-5 true blue and 10000k lights, 2 fuvual 305 Canister Filters Mis. Mushrooms, Fan Worms, hammer coral, frog spawn, candy cane, A TON OF TRUMPET CORAL!! orange plating monti, some kind of branching monti, pom pom xeina, all kinds of zoos BRIGHT GREEN star polyps, xeina, neon green toadstool, 3 damn damsles, a foxface and a blue tang. November 1...The begining! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random045.jpg November 8,2008 http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ristina034.jpg My 75 GALLON BAR TOP REEF TANK! http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...n-bar-top.html

01-21-2007, 04:27 PM	#10 (permalink)
meandean45 Ricordea Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bradford, Vt., USA Posts: 177 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Great News! Like Boomer D said, sell him whole stalks. Most LFS's don't have time to do a lot of fragging, and would rather let you do the hard work for them. Two or three stalks at a time should be about right if it's a small operation, maybe a dozen at a time if he can sell all of them in two weeks. Congrats. and good luck. Regards, Dean __________________ Meandean45 -RELATIVITY: "Sit on a red hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit next to a pretty Girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's Relativity". A.Einstein : "A man's got to know his limitations."- Clint Eastwood in "Magnum Force"

01-21-2007, 05:07 PM	#11 (permalink)
daveat Sea Pen Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 322 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Great News! PM sent. incase i make anybody from my LFS mad by advertising prices!

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