Pet Peeve - Do you or don't you?

[ScubaSteve]

Yes, frag plugs **** me off. I'll raise that one further to say that it annoys me to no end when people mount frags vertically on the plugs, especially tabling acros. First of all, encrusting rates of frags are higher when flesh touches the rock. This is a scientifically proven fact. Second, if I see one more efflo or solitaryensis mounted vertically I might snap. This leads to retarded looking growth patterns.

If my frags aren't encrusted I pop them off the frag plugs in a heart beat and will usually mount them to rubble on an angle to that 1/2" of flesh is touching (I got my purple bonsai to completely encrust the rubble in just over a week this way) and mount the rubble to the rock.

That being said, I do have frag plugs in my tank from incoming frags I couldn't pop off. And it kills me every time I look at them. Grow corals, grow! I don't want to look at those stupid plugs!