What to Consider When Buying Frags
MICHAEL PALETTA4 DAYS AGO
This hobby has seen a lot of changes over the last forty years. Lighting, ICP testing, trace elements and flow to name a few items have all been improved upon and have helped change the hobby completely. However, even more than those, the switch from large wild coral colonies to tanks filled with small coral frags has been even more significant.
While it is still possible to get some wild colonies from Australia or maricultured “colonies” from Indonesia or the Solomon Islands, filling tanks with aquacultured frags has become more the norm than the exception, especially when it comes to sps corals. Part of this is out of necessity, as many countries closed at one time or another to the exporting of wild corals so fragging corals became the only way possible to even get some of these corals. Another reason is that some of these corals are rarely imported, so fragging them became the only way to distribute them. And lastly, selling coral frags has become a lucrative business, and as with most things if there is a profit in something it will attract more and more individuals to it.
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This hobby has seen a lot of changes over the last forty years. Lighting, ICP testing, trace elements and flow to name a few items have all been improved upon and have helped change the hobby…
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