How big is too big?

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When do you decide to ditch or frag a coral? I’ve got a frogspawn that is 8” in diameter when open. Its starting to shadow other corals. I love it but its getting huge
 
When do you decide to ditch or frag a coral? I’ve got a frogspawn that is 8” in diameter when open. Its starting to shadow other corals. I love it but its getting huge

If its blocking light to other corals I would say its time to frag it and either set the new frags in your reef or like others stated above you can sell them off.
 
I wish I had these kinds of problems..... my Frogspawn was the one and only piece I've gotten so far that died...... If you fragged it in one big hunk, I'd be interested.
 
I used to have a huge 35+ head frogspawn...and kept selling single heads to my lfs for store credit.... eventually someone made me an offer I could not refuse and I sold the entire colony...it barely fit into a 5g bucket!!
 
I try to keep things to a size that the coral below get enough light. I had a green with purple tips indo torch that put on 12 heads over the last year. It was shading all the zoas below it so I chopped them off and took them to a swap. The current colony is about 15 heads which is a nice size and allows the zoas to get all the light they need.
 

IF YOU HAD TO TAKE A REEFING EXAM, WOULD YOU PASS?

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