Buying mini colonies from lfs
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markie mark
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i think its better to leave tham alone for a while...i have figured out the hard way in the past if you start breaking off frags of marincultured or wild acros not to long after you get them,they will stress and die..not all the time,but alot..i think its better to let them adapt to your water,lights ect. before you start chopping them up...i propagate and sale corals and its hard for me to wait a while to start fragging..if the mini colonies are grown in house you might have better luck fragging them....i still would let them adapt to your tank for a bit......
The reason I ask is I picked up a pretty decent size colony at a lfs and it started to lose some of it's "skin" on one brach so I just cut it off slightly lower than that spot and moved it to a better area. I think what was happening was a korallia was blowing directly on it from the side where the rtn was happening. So far so good but was just wondering if it was prudent to make a frag now or if it starts to rtn then frag it.
markie mark
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if any sps starts bleaching the best way to sacrafice any of it is to frag it asap...cut above the rtn line..make sure you dont have any daed tissue on the piece your trying to save..on one of my last orders,one of my deepwaters started bleaching with in a few days and i managed to save some frags and they are still kicking as of now..i also try to make sure when i glue it to a plug i completly cover the base in glue....
velvetelvis
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Almost all of my montis are maricultured mini-colonies from the LFS. They've all done just fine...and the only way you'd get me to frag my prized beauties is at gunpoint. (Or if they started to outgrow the tank.) 
Dustin1300
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Almost all of my montis are maricultured mini-colonies from the LFS. They've all done just fine...and the only way you'd get me to frag my prized beauties is at gunpoint. (Or if they started to outgrow the tank.)
How about when you are trying to catch a flame angel that started nipping at your SPS and you break off 11 small tips of SPS? Now I have a frag rack with 11 new frags after the weekend
velvetelvis
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LOL~I went through that this past weekend doing a massive tank cleaning (finally got a skimmer, so I was trying to get as rid of as much algae as possible manually to give it a head start). A friend of mine will be getting two M. monasteriata frags and a bit of M. confusa tonight, thanks to my clumsiness.
markie mark
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im not sure how you tell what the difference is in rtn from just straight bleaching...ive kept sps coral for so many years and not to long ago one of my acros just shut down,or started bleaching,,nothing else did ot has..i have a pretty nice sps reef and i dont know what happen,guess it just wasnt happy anymore....this one didnt start at the bottom...really started all over..i frag corals all the time,i have to,but the ones that do the best for me i have let get relaxed i guess you could say for awhile and then start the cutting....
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