Sps needs I.d.

I really wish I was skilled enough in this hobby to help identify these things. I have respect for those that can.
 
Trade name, I just want to be able to I.d. It with a name not just acropora. I did look up the plum crazies and it does look l
Like that. So. Think that might be it. thanks
 
Over 99% of acropora do not have 'common' names.

This coral probably doesn't. It is almost impossible to find out since you have no lineage or idea what it may be, so when selling it just call it acropora.
 
Just keep in mind that "Plum Crazies" is more like "Nike" than "Running Shoe". You may already be aware, but some people get nuts over all this branding in corals. The main gist (AFAICT anyway) is that certain respected "growers" hand select a bunch of pretty coral and then pick one that can tolerate aquarium life and call it something creative, say "Justin's Bustin Grape Acro". After they have had it long enough to have that confidence they start to sell it as a limited edition (LE) piece for a premium price. From there it sort of goes like apple launching iphone6 (if the grower has enough cache). The problem is, they aren't MAKING these corals, so if some Tahitian fisherman sends the same coral to Wayne's House-O-Coral, well then Wayne has a bit of a moral dilemma. He could sell it as "Justin's Bustin Grape Acro" (we'd be calling it JBGA or something cool at this point) and charge $75.00 a 1/2 inch for it, or sell it as a purple acro and make $40 a mini. How these special "growers" establish cache is beyond me but I would imagine having lots of money is key, I tend to believe it's sort of an "Emperor's new clothes" sort of a thing, but my point in this blathering is that if you call a piece "Plum Crazy" or "Red Dragon" you'd better be ready to show "lineage" or people will crawl all the way in one way and out the other on you. How do you prove lineage? You reference the thread or e-mail chain that led to your acquisition and you hope your buyer believes the chain (I'm fuzzy on this point). This isn't to say you were going to anything like any of this, but I've been doing this a while and still scratch my head at this whole part of the hobby of course I eat food that comes in packages with only the names of the food on the too. I'd be curious if any of our resident LE aficionados would add anything I may have missed in this description.
 
I agree. A lot of it is just marketing. But there are some very rare strains that have been "named" that are superior to most other maricultured similar morphs. For example, the CITR red dragon is far superior to any wild harvested or maricultured similar morph I've seen. Another benefit is that the big names like ORA or Jason Fox have conditioned the original wild colonies in captive systems for some time, so they tend to be hardier.
 
bryman said:
Another benefit is that the big names like ORA or Jason Fox have conditioned the original wild colonies in captive systems for some time, so they tend to be hardier.
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ORA is obviously great at holding pieces to make sure they maintain their colors and will be hardy, but some of the bigger name online specialty sps guys take wild-caught colonies straight off the plane and slap fancy names on them then sell off asap without holding them for a few months to assure steadfastness. I know this because I've seen the same fancy-name new releases at some of these places the same week out lfs's get the same coral shipped in. Difference is that the online guy wants $75 for 1/2" and the lfs wants $10, or $40 for the mini, as stated above.

Now, there are very valid situations where the importers see a super hot piece and they will put a major premium on it and sell it to one, maybe 2 vendors to be renamed as a signature piece. I'm okay with this. In fact one of my fav's is the Awesome Aussie I got from WCR.
 
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