Am I the only one whose tank is completely populated with frags versus colonies? And by that, I mean fairly new sps tanks that ares still populating.
I sit and look at my little tank and all its small frags. Still very nice, but not like the pics everyone posts about their acro colony. Seems darn near everyone running sps tanks here are buying decent size colonies for their tanks.
So I wonder that even if the colony is a very good price and some of which I have seen are that, why instant reef, instead of growing everything from small.
Just a point of curiosity for discussion, nothing else. My own greatest joy in keeping acro,s is finding tiny frags and watching them grow.
Many of the beautiful acro,s Mike has, I traded him when I downsized as they were on large rocks, but those were grown from frags so tiny, I could hardly hang onto them to mount them.
Even the largest I have added lately, were fragged from some of his colonies but are a bit larger with a few heads, instead of the tiny single frag ordered online, which many of mine are.
Anyways, just interested in others views on the topic.