SPS colonies or small frags?

[BaliReefBox]

if you all want colonies why did you get rid of the British in 1775.... so flip flop you Americans

 

[DJF]

I go back & forth- I have large sps colonies and frags sitting in an interim tank while I prep an upgrade… on the fence whether I’m going to put the full colonies in there or frag from them; that said the frags I’ll take would be considered colonies.

 

[Waters]

Same here. You should see my KISS room

I had something similar but sold everything off (except my autographed Kisstory book....you wanna buy it lol?)

 

[Big E]

LOL................too funny.

 

[Epic Aquaculture]

For me it goes in order of preference as follows:

1. Aquacultured colony if local
2. Aquacultured frag
3. Aquacultured colony if shipping
4. Maricultured frag
5. Wild Frag
6. Maricultured colony
7 Wild colony

By the way, there's no such thing as a "mini-colony" in my book. They are either small, medium, large, XL Frags, or they are colonies. A colony should be at least baseball sized IMHO if it's not then it is a frag.

 

[FrugalReefer]

Buying a more established SPS colony? Where’s the fun in that?

 

[Bob Weigant]

I had something similar but sold everything off (except my autographed Kisstory book....you wanna buy it lol?)

I'll have to pass but thanks for the offer. I have a lot of signed stuff from when I met them

 

[Estonian Reefer]

I like my frags reasonably small because then the frags will grow according to the environment provided to them in my tank rather than getting colony which might just struggle with the change. I'd consider big colony only if I had to fill a massive tank, something 5000+ gallons.

 

[i cant think]

Just curious.....how many of you, if given the opportunity, would pay more for larger baseball sized SPS colonies over smaller frags? Would you rather pay less and watch a small frag grow, or would you pay more for the immediate impact of a larger, more established colony?

I’d rather have larger colonies over smaller frags, I mean what we see as colonies now were at one point frags.