illegal black market corals...

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reeffreak

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Just replied to the ad , I want to know what the back market of coral is also asked him if this " rare 1000$ peice of coral had a name or type told Jim I'm very interested and want to see it lol
 
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already talked to him this morning. System is sold withh coral pending pickup
 
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i just had a long conversation with the guy and he has larger and smaller peices of nice, intricate peices of dead coral,.,  branching stuff and the like, he said 1 peice was over 20in. he also has a 5ftx16x24 100 gallon tank.
 
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Im not so sure this guy really knows what hes talking about , In the email I had received from I will qoute his words here , " Anyone who has gotten into Salt Water Marine in the past 20 - 25 years probably have not seen hard coral lager than the size of there hand " ,  wrong ... Hes asking like $300 for a dead peice of coral ... crazy  !!!!
 
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In fairness...Back in the day...You would buy huge pieces of decorative coral "dead" from the LFS to decorate your marine fish tanks...almost no one kept much in inverts and if you asked for a collector to get "live reef rock " (like people in Germany were experimenting with) they would think you were insane.... and periodically people would pull the coral pieces out of their tanks and bleach them with chlorine to get the beautiful white (sterile) look back.

Problem was the collectors for the aquarium and home decor/jewelry trade were cutting out huge living colonies and cleaning and bleaching them to sell and destroying the reefs so the export/import of coral skeletons was banned along with the ban on ivory trade and only fake reproductions were available to the trade. Immediately after...the value of decorative corals and ivory went through the roof until growing "eco-awareness" made owning these things unfashionable. 

 
 
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AdInfinitum link said:
In fairness...Back in the day...You would buy huge pieces of decorative coral \"dead\" from the LFS to decorate your marine fish tanks...almost no one kept much in inverts and if you asked for a collector to get \"live reef rock \" (like people in Germany were experimenting with) they would think you were insane.... and periodically people would pull the coral pieces out of their tanks and bleach them with chlorine to get the beautiful white (sterile) look back.

Problem was the collectors for the aquarium and home decor/jewelry trade were cutting out huge living colonies and cleaning and bleaching them to sell and destroying the reefs so the export/import of coral skeletons was banned along with the ban on ivory trade and only fake reproductions were available to the trade. Immediately after...the value of decorative corals and ivory went through the roof until growing \"eco-awareness\" made owning these things unfashionable. 
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  Insane as it is..according to the facts presented several years ago to the CITES commission, by Ornamental Fisheries International (OFI) 84% of the coral collected are purposely killed and sold for decorative purposes.... souvenirs.

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Bill@IA link said:
[quote author=AdInfinitum link=topic=2444.msg19492#msg19492 date=1333896515]
In fairness...Back in the day...You would buy huge pieces of decorative coral \"dead\" from the LFS to decorate your marine fish tanks...almost no one kept much in inverts and if you asked for a collector to get \"live reef rock \" (like people in Germany were experimenting with) they would think you were insane.... and periodically people would pull the coral pieces out of their tanks and bleach them with chlorine to get the beautiful white (sterile) look back.

Problem was the collectors for the aquarium and home decor/jewelry trade were cutting out huge living colonies and cleaning and bleaching them to sell and destroying the reefs so the export/import of coral skeletons was banned along with the ban on ivory trade and only fake reproductions were available to the trade. Immediately after...the value of decorative corals and ivory went through the roof until growing \"eco-awareness\" made owning these things unfashionable. 
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  Insane as it is..according to the facts presented several years ago to the CITES commission, by Ornamental Fisheries International (OFI) 84% of the coral collected are purposely killed and sold for decorative purposes.... souvenirs.

:(
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makes me sick , like killing an animal and hangingit on your wall
 
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