I enjoy your questions, Doug, but I won't call them dumb.
I disagree with cutting up a coral as a reward for it doing really well. If it's in high demand or rare, then okay, but if it's doing well then let it grow and become a mature specimen. Our typical little pieces are nothing close to what they could be, anyways.
Don't start chopping for the sake of chopping (been there done that) - wait until fragging is necessary, like when they start to overgrow the space allotted. Just my take on things, I think the concept is to grow them up to be large and healthy.
Zoos are different, though. There's a bit of a frenzy lately, so we're fragging our frags...
