how big do you think a "frag" should be

the josey wales

the josey wales

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I just wanted to get a feel for sizing of frags.
I just bought a bunch and they are dissapointingly small. about nickel size, and mostly zo's w/ about 8 TINY poylps per rock.
I was expecting them to be more like golf ball size.
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zonut

zonut

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fraging is typically left for sps corals where you are cutting them and placing them on new growth shoots, something like that i woudl call seeding, but yeah nickel sized pieces are about right. They will grow fast if you give them lots of trace elements and room.
 
jblabs

jblabs

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Hey to me it depends on what kind they are and what ya paid for them.
If you bought standard brown for $10, thats no bargain. Something nice for that size and price its in the ball park.
BTW Around here we call those zoo frags. Its a fragment off of a larger colony, thus a frag.
Jeesh you guys will debate anything.:rolleyes:
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nas19320

nas19320

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Zoa frags are usually price based on the size of the piece and the color. A small rock of true blues can go for $8-$10a polyp while the more common colors can go for much less.
I agree with jblabs, IMO a small collection of polyps is a frag as it not a colony but a fragment.
 
jblabs

jblabs

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Originally posted by The Josey Wales
they were a varity of nice colors and 10 to 20 bucks each, free shipping.
Cool:) With good care and some time, you will have baseball size rocks of color:yes:
 
zonut

zonut

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most of those frags tho are made by getting the zoos to grow on rubble and not by busting up the pieces of the colony. at least the ones i make are made like that, the process is to me seeding not fraging. But yeah for nice colors you didnt get taken for a ride.
 
richfish

richfish

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oh sorry for not explaining myself.i meant that zoos really dont get cut from there base and put on another rock,but yes a piece of rock with zoos is a frag of a colony
 
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