What is the best website for buying large rare corals.

[kibrg2000]

I would like to know who has had the best luck on the web buying large rare corals and what are the site names.

 

[jessezm]

Atlantisaquarium.net (though they don't often have large colonies)
Reefermadness.us (large colonies, but not all that rare)
Live Aquaria's diver's den (some nice sized wild and maricultured colonies--again, not all that rare, but nice nonetheless)

I've ordered from the last two on several occasions with good results.

 

[jessezm]

Oh, also: drmaccorals.com (pacific east aquiculture), and reefscience.com

 

[lorenk]

I did an order from cherrycorals.com and am very happy with my purchace.

 

[dough]

What do you mean by "large" are you refering to colonies or large frags?

I don't think I've seen someone selling colonies of LE or rare corals. The above names sell colonies but typically they are not rare corals.

 

[dannybradley]

The money is made in fragging the large colonies to sell at a higher margin to more people.

 

[cameron]

Occasionally you can run across a nice colony sized piece at fragglereef.com

 

[kibrg2000]

What i mean by big, is extremly large frags or large colonies. I have good luck with live aquara, and

 

[FutureInterest]

I ordered a bunch of acans and a rainbow bullsyeye from zoanuts.com and they were well priced and are absolutely beautiful. Free shipping with an order > 150.

 

[dannybradley]

Define extremely large. 12" across? 18" across? I think you're looking to get a business license and buying from a wholesaler to get something THAT big.

 

[kibrg2000]

i would define big as 6" x 6" or maybe 8" x 8" but we all have bought enough coral to know what bigs.

 

[lorenk]

give sal a shout (horsesziggy, no jokes from the peanut gallery). I talked to him yesterday and he said he got some nice acro pieces in...nice colors. they open on february first...at least that's the target date.

 

[kibrg2000]

I guess what i an saying would be buying mother colonies like an acro who would sell something like this, seem to hard to find on the web.