Prices for mushrooms

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1wizz

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I just wondered what price would you guys/girls get, if like me you decided to thin down your overexuberant Green Discosma colony and take some pieces in to your local lfs?
I Took to mine a small piece of coral skeleton of about 0.2kg with 12 or more shrooms on it and a larger piece of about 0.4kg of light live rock with about 30+ shrooms and the trade he offered was to weigh the two pieces together and tell me for the smallest he would only pay £2.50 and the larger one he would sort me out a small piece of jarva live rock from his next delivery which would be covered in red, green and blue algae.
Small piece i'm thinking would be under 1kg.
I have seen a piece like the larger one for sale for around £22 in other lfs.
What do you get and have i been done? :wall:
 
BeelzeBob

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could you say that again in like, dollars and pounds? :lol:

i plead American arrogance, but i seriously im lost.
 
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Sorry Bob,
One small piece of dead coral with 12 good sized mushrooms on it and a bit of live rock the size of a normal flat hand with 30+ mushrooms on it and the guy at the lfs said for the smallest, if he brought it from a wholesaler he would only pay $5 for it, but sell it on for $30. So basically he was saying they were worth nothing much as a trade.
I just wanted to know if this was the case for all?
 
Ace25

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Ya, it usually is for common mushrooms. They grow like weeds, as you have found out, and are not worth much to a LFS. I don't think they were being unreasonable with their offer. Usually you are better off trading a frag like that with someone else for something different, ie zoas or something than bringing in to a LFS. I tried the same thing once, had a good size rock with 20+ green striped mushrooms and the LFS was pretty much going to give me the cost of the rock and like $5 more for the mushrooms. Wasn't really worth it, but they were out of control so I just got a little bit bigger piece of live rock in trade for the mushroom rock I brought in.
 
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ive found that with selling or trading with the LFS', that unless you're given them the primo specimens, they'll do their absolute best to low-ball ya.

honestly, it might be woth your while to trade or sell to another reef-geek :D
 
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I'm not sure they'll survive the trip across the pond but i'm willing to try, :laugh:
I just wanted to be asured he wasn't taking the mick.
But when you have as many as me, swapping for a new piece of live rock isn't so bad :grinyes:
Thanks Bob 'n' Ace :woot:
 
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If you cant find another hobbyist near you to trade them with I would go ahead and trade for the live rock. Ricordea's are about the only coralamorphs that my lfs will give decent trade for.
 
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those, round these parts would range from like $5-$15 bucks each depending on where you go.

u ever, considered anything other than boomers?
 
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