frag / mini colony / colony examples

[SeeFu]

how big does a frag have to get before its considered a mini colony and then how big does that have to get before its considered a colony?

 

[blaxsun]

Depends on the type of coral.

 

[TX_REEF]

Also curious about this, pure curiosity. For example, how many miscromussa polyps does a frag need to be before it's a "colony" how about zoas? candy canes? Acros? Would love to hear input.

 

[MoshJosh]

Anything visible to the naked eye is a mini colony.

 

[Cthulukelele]

Colony and mini colony to me are just marketing terms for wild collected coral that have made their way into the hobby. There is no distinction because they're all subjective terms different to every person for every different type of coral. To me a duncan "mini colony" would be once it had balled out enough heads to be spherical. To me a duncan "colony" would be one that was big enough that I couldn't immediately even tell it was a cluster of Duncans. In my opinion they're mostly useless marketing terms, but also it's a fun topic to discuss

 

[TX_REEF]

yeah! all for the discussion. and also I want to know at what point I can safely be proud of myself for growing a "frag" into a "colony"

 

[Reefing102]

To me, for hobby purposes, a frag is anything where I can still see the frag plug and/or is 1-4 or more heads/branches/polyps/whatever. Pretty much anything smaller than 2 inches around and tall is a frag.

A mini colony, I agree is a marketing term as that didn’t really exist years ago, however in todays terms, for me it is a fully covered frag plug of whatever coral, multiple heads and branches and anything larger than 2 inches around and tall up to about 4-5 inches around/tall.

A colony, for fish tank purposes to me is any coral bigger than 5 inches around/tall. I don’t know how many here have encountered wild coral either truly in the wild or as imports, but much of what is received by importers as “colonies” are simply large frags of true wild colonies.

 

[fish farmer]

Colony and mini colony to me are just marketing terms for wild collected coral that have made their way into the hobby. There is no distinction because they're all subjective terms different to every person for every different type of coral. To me a duncan "mini colony" would be once it had balled out enough heads to be spherical. To me a duncan "colony" would be one that was big enough that I couldn't immediately even tell it was a cluster of Duncans. In my opinion they're mostly useless marketing terms, but also it's a fun topic to discuss

This frammer is actually two separate sticks/branches/whatever, that I mounted and they grew together to "round out".

They were from the original piece that needed breaking up and remounting.

So....two mini colonies....they are growing enough where they shade inside polyps which die back.

 

[MoshJosh]

This frammer is actually two separate sticks/branches/whatever, that I mounted and they grew together to "round out".

They were from the original piece that needed breaking up and remounting.

So....two mini colonies....they are growing enough where they shade inside polyps which die back.

Nah, a coral that size is zoned as a residential property, beach front no less. . . and prices as such.