When you buy or trade sps frags

[Znut Reefer]

Do you prefer to have them fresh cut and shipped or mounted and healed? Tell why you prefer either method.
I prefer most cut and healed especially the more sensitive corals.

 

[Blackhawk Fan]

I prefer mounted and healed. I have lost a lot of sps that were cut fresh and shipped to me. They usually arrive ok, but RTN over the next day or two.

 

[JR's Reef]

I like mounted,healed and on a plug. Reason I have a busy life and its much easier to put them in QT or frag tank until I have time to put them where I want them.

 

[m and m]

Healed for anything atleast a few days. why because there healed less stress on the coral. Let me put it in diffrent terms, let me cut off your left toe and put you in a house with some weird people you dont know. Would you like that? No on a real note i think fresh cut and then shipping is just mre stress then needed. 99% of the time in sps its not needed, Z and p's i like atleast a few days and chalices the longer the better. Atleast ten days for chalices.

 

[JMAdams]

I also prefer mounted and healed because it is less stressful for the coral.

 

[Ian]

Cut off your left toe? It'll heal on it's own? :xd:

 

[Znut Reefer]

I like mounted,healed and on a plug. Reason I have a busy life and its much easier to put them in QT or frag tank until I have time to put them where I want them.

I agree. I think most if not all of them would do a lot better.

 

[mpoletti]

I know of a couple corals that do much better when shipped cut the day before, but no mounted on a plug. These certain corals seem to have a "reaction" to the glue ( I guess). Believe me, I have tried more than a couple times each way

I usually cut a week before I ship as I do not like to cut twice. I really do not care how I receive them as long as they dont have pests

 

[coralfarm123]

For shipped corals, I like healed and encrusting frags. For local frags, fresh cut is fine with me.

 

[Znut Reefer]

Mark,
What frags seem to have a reaction to the glue in your experience? I have tried several times to get in the ORA purple pillow. I've kept it for mos unmounted. And the time I mount it using super glue it RTN's everytime. So I gave up.

 

[Acronuts]

Yes i would like to know a couple of examples in your experience that fresh cuts would work.
I do agree that getting it pest free is a must!!!

I know of a couple corals that do much better when shipped cut the day before, but no mounted on a plug. These certain corals seem to have a "reaction" to the glue ( I guess). Believe me, I have tried more than a couple times each way

I usually cut a week before I ship as I do not like to cut twice. I really do not care how I receive them as long as they dont have pests

 

[red02]

i like mine on a plug and ready to go less chance of rtn

 

[I-K@ndY]

Mine healed and mounted but 95% I usually re plug mine

 

[TopNotchCorals]

It depends if im picking up from a friend or having it shipped

 

[wishntoboutside]

I always like to cut and make sure it heals before it goes out the door. On higher end stuff i love to get it encrusted to really wow them. but then again. then again as long as it is not a booger on a plug i am happy.

 

[fishoutofwater]

I like them to be healed before selling or shipping bthis way there most likely no problems

 

[Werdlone]

healed and starting to encrust on a plug is how I prefer sps frags. I think there is stress with fragging, and stress with shipping. try to put some time between the two. If it is a local frag, fresh cut works fine.

 

[Tankguy001]

I perfer getting them after they are heal. It seems to work better for me

 

[johnanddawn]

when i trade/buy right out of a freinds tank i want it fresh cut

if i buy from other hobbiest, either online or at frag swaps, i want it at least mounted, so its not rolling around

- i would NEVER buy a frag from an on-line vender that was not mounted and completly encrusted onto the plug.

i think of it this way - if they don't have a set-up nice enough to allow their frags to heal and encrust onto a plug, then they are just chop shoppers with a web site and could be chopping up newly imported wild caughts and sending them out. one sure way to failure is a recent import being chopped and shipped without time to heal. it takes but a month to encrust (some slower growers maybe a bit more) - we hobbiest should insist that venders hold them at least that long

 

[deepbluesea]

on a plug and healed encrusting is better if its shiped.fresh snapes are ok as others have said if there local but still a little riskier as you are still aclamating and there a little stressed.