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Market Survey: Live Corals

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Andy The Reef Guy, Feb 6, 2011.

  1. Andy The Reef Guy

    Andy The Reef Guy Inactive User


    I'm always crunching numbers and reading articles, dreaming of my coral farm of the future lol. I've found that there is a meager amount of discrete data on the live coral market, what data there is, isn't publicaly available.
    I found this survey by Coral Magazine;
    http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/content/reef-spending-2010-survey
    It's interesting but far from discrete.
    So, for anybody who's interested in compiling our own data taken from the club, please take the poll and enjoy what window of information it affords us, although I'm certain that we're not a random sample.
    Edit: we need 500 results so that I can report the findings with
     
  2. glaspie69

    glaspie69 Experienced Reefkeeper

    Is this a yearly average, monthly, weekly?
     
  3. Andy The Reef Guy

    Andy The Reef Guy Inactive User

    per purchase, as you will see the link I posted reports maximums and totals.
    Although, after voting if you would like to comment what your personal max on a FRAG would be that could be helpful in calculating variance and std dev.
    I emphisize frag, because I would and on average spend more on good size corals "mini colonies" if you will. We will arbitrarily define frag as anything smaller than a golf ball.
     
  4. Guest

    Guest Guest

    DEpends on the frag I mean if its mushrooms or pulsating u know something in that order then I'd say 20 but u know the better the frag the higher the demand and price is
     
  5. iaJim

    iaJim Inactive User

    Lots of folks sell frags for 10 or 15 dollars.
     
  6. Andy The Reef Guy

    Andy The Reef Guy Inactive User



    Yeah I'm not specifying preferance for type, any type, just name ur average.
    Jim, yeah I guess I didn't include that range, but now looking at it I probably should have, especially considering alot of us get deals buying through one another, and a bulk of responses are coming from that lower range, I imagine that stratifies all the way down to the 5 dollar range.
     
  7. IowaDiver

    IowaDiver Well-Known ReefKeeper

    10-15 bucks
     
  8. Andy The Reef Guy

    Andy The Reef Guy Inactive User

    Lol thx tibbs ill put u and jim down in that class. And prob split the 20-30 class down the middle.

    Let's keep the results rollin in! Then ill crunch these numbers and share the results!
     

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