darrin
You make a great point. At a colony that size I can see taking frags from it, but those folks who chop up a 4 iinch tall FRAG into three 1 inch frags, and leave one 1 incher in their tank to grow out again seems a little self defeating. Most of the pics I see of folks who are fragging their "colonies" are of frags themself. I thought in order to be classified as a colony you should be able to recognise a growth shape (ie. table, staghorn, bottlebrush, digitata, cappy). Maybe somebody can explain... or are we fragging these SPS so we will have 40 frags to bring to the swap. Sooner or later folks have to let corals grow or they will have 100 frags in a 55 gallon system, and its gonna look like a corn field right after harvest.