Frag talk

[Xanthurum]

I have been noticing a lot of people in the selling forum using the term “mini colony” to describe what I would consider a frag while also seeing tiny nubs being sold as frags. I know that things like this don’t really affect anything and I completely understand that if I don’t feel that the price is where I am comfortable paying then I don’t buy it. Im not interested in making this a seller bashing thread or anything like that I just find it silly and it makes me laugh when I see mini colony in title and then see a frag that is 3/4 inch tall with 3 branches pictured. Pic for attention, this is a a good representation of what I’m seeing sold as mini colony but I purchased this along with all my SPS pieces from the same vendor and this is a FRAG according to them. This happens to be TCK Rainbow Fusion and it has 5 branches, you can also see the size of the RRPink Floyd and CC Bahama Mama Mille in the back.

 

[bobby.w.hodges]

This topic also came up in a local forum, I consider a colony or mini colony to be growing well abd about to grow off of the plug its on, this goes for zoas too. I posted this "mini colony" for sale locally, wwc nuclear fallout. I glued a "frag" on this plug about 4 or 5 months ago, it turned into a mini colony.

 

[minus9]

This topic also came up in a local forum, I consider a colony or mini colony to be growing well abd about to grow off of the plug its on, this goes for zoas too. I posted this "mini colony" for sale locally, wwc nuclear fallout. I glued a "frag" on this plug about 4 or 5 months ago, it turned into a mini colony.

I wouldn't hesitate to call that a mini colony at all. Or simply a large frag. A mini colony to me is multiple branches and no visible plug, at least not the top part. Yours meets that criteria.

 

[stephj03]

You guys must be from way back in the day when an inch was an actual refference to markings on a real ruler haha.

The shame of it all is that today's hobbyists often fail to realize that it's gonna take 2-3yrs of very good tank conditions for the nubs they buy to grow out.

And a bunch of these nubs get thrown into a brand new tank. Those nubs are gonna take 3-4yrs to grow out, which is longer than most new hobbyist keep their tank.

 

[stephj03]

But at the same time, I'm totally guilty of buying a few nubs here and there. Sometimes that's all that's available on the newest hottest stuff.

A true 1" encrusted frag of rainbow splice would be like $2,500 even if you could find one.....

 

[Dilan Patel]

my defenition of a mini colony is something i can frag and not really notice where i fragged a piece off lol. my examples of large frag and mini colony