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View Poll Results: Looks or Cash?
I prefer to keep the corals natural 27 56.25%
Hey, salt costs money, frags help keep the spouse off my back! 21 43.75%
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Old 07-20-2012, 04:41 AM
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I prefer to trade frags if I can, I'd rather have a variety of cool stuff, and it tends to be a lot easier on the wallet!
+1, I would rather trade.
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Old 07-20-2012, 05:03 AM
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It's not so much about trading vs selling, more about chopping up a perfectly good colony that doesn't need fragging. Do you cut pieces anyway, to trade/sell/give to your mom, or do you let things grow so that they look untouched?
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Old 07-20-2012, 06:28 AM
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I frag:
-for the money (or trade), although it all goes straight into the tanks, I don't frag much on my DT anymore now that I have my frag tanks. I like to leave it untouched, but wouldn't worry if somebody wanted a frag, I would be happy to cut a chunk off.
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-to promote FOWLR hobbyists to adventure into the sps/lps realm ($5/freebie starter frags)
-to reduce the harvesting of wild stock
-to fill the 3 tanks in my basement that I convinced my wife I needed
-because with multiple frags of a colony I can keep my favorites in a couple of tanks in case of a crash
-but mostly, because it is cool to see them grow and plate out on the frag plugs! I think of it as SimCity, but for Reefies, and instead of looking at the computer screen, you get to reach into it
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