Ideal Colony Grow Out Size?

[Layne.Wilson]

I have a question about propagating of chalice corals, montipora and other encrustercorals I am considering the appropriate size of grow out disks to maximize growth potential of my encrusters do they grow faster as a larger colonies? Or do they grow faster as multiple smaller colonies? If smaller how much smaller before the stress of being that small is counter intuitive?

 

[CCauthers]

Most people have one or two main propagation colonies, with a back up or two and maybe some smaller ones

 

[Layne.Wilson]

Most people have one or two main propagation colonies, with a back up or two and maybe some smaller ones

Appreciate the response! How big do they usually keep the 2 colonies? Most of my colonies are about the size of a baseball would they grow faster overall if I split them into say 4-7 frags?

 

[Dilan Patel]

i use 3in plates. once they grow off of it they get cut