I've heard a number of people mention doing this. How exactly would you do that without getting it directly from tubs, tyree, etc., or maybe once removed? I would think that in the end, you are kinda just stuck taking someone's word for it, or being able to just eyeball the coral to see if it's the real deal.
yes sometimes it is near impossible after the coral has passed through many hands. But it can still be done with a bit of homework(its actually kind of fun).You just need to back track
Here is an example of a response i got from someone i emailed.
and you will usually find that the people who are selling the real deal frags are happy to respond because they feel the same way about it you do.
Hey, yes I just started to farm some coral for ^%&$&$#$#^$& in
&%*%^(&). I sold them a good sized frag of my tyree red
watermelon
with in the past 2 weeks. It's the real deal for sure. If you go to
Tyree's website, I'm the dave it mentions there, this is the email
mentioned
there, but I guess you already know that, otherwise I'm not sure how
you got
my email addy. I bought this from Hugo about 1 1/2 years ago before it
became an LE. In conjunction w/Hugo, Steve made this the LE that it is
today. I bought the main colony, which is why I'm listed on the
website,
otherwise he doesn't list 2 party links on his site, just the person
who has
the goods, in this case me. Hugo only kept I think three frags off the
mother, and Tyree got 2. My colony was about baseball sized at that
time.
I have only sold 4 frags off my colony, one which was bigger than a
silver
dollar last spring on eBay for $950, and haven't fragged it since. I
know
that almost for certain people saying they have the true red watermelon
are
not being honest because if they did have it, chances are they got it
from
me and I have not made many frags of it and because this grows kind of
slow.
Thanks for asking though, I have several requests for it off Tyree's
site,
and people ask me the same thing you are doing now, but lucky you gets
good
news. You are the only person that I have been able to actually verify
has
the orginal red watermelon who isn't my friend or know personally. I
know
for a fact it's much more rare than the orginal, it's just sad people
lie.
Well, thanks for asking. I hope you like it and I promise you have
something no one else does. I bet Fish will be asking for some more of
that
from me soon!
Thanks and enjoy!
Dave Whitham