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| View Poll Results: Do you tend to buy frags or colonies? Why? | |||
| Frags because of the lower price | 
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	    20 | 37.74% | 
| Frags because I like "brand name" corals | 
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	    10 | 18.87% | 
| Frags because I like to watch them grow out | 
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	    20 | 37.74% | 
| Frags because that's all that's available to me | 
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	    0 | 0% | 
| Frags for a different reason | 
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	    9 | 16.98% | 
| Colonies because I need to fill space | 
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	    3 | 5.66% | 
| Colonies because I don't like to wait for them to grow | 
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	    6 | 11.32% | 
| Colonies because that's all that's available to me | 
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	    1 | 1.89% | 
| Colonies for a different reason | 
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	    1 | 1.89% | 
| Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 53. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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			 Frags so far for me. Mostly i just havent thought about buying a colony. Hmmm maybe ill start 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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			 I picked "frags because I'm cheap".  But the reality is that I choose fras for many reasons: 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
	- I AM cheap! - I like to watch them grow - If they are new corals, I'm unsure how they do in my tank, especially SPS. I don't want to risk killing a whole colony. Killing a frag makes me feel less guilty for being a bad reefer.... How's that for a long-winded answer?  | 
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			 I can barely afford the frags let alone colonies. Lol. So frags get my vote. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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			 With the right name comes price and it is not just because of the name they are actually the nicest ones once the grow out . Strawberry short cake special forest fire so pretty .Palmer blue  milli so blue if you like blue . There is always some though, red dragon why are all the tips going blue 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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			 Mostly frags to. I recently bought 4 mini colonies. Beautiful. Then had an alk problem, which should not happen with my experience but it did and bingo, lost all but one colony. So yes, frags. 
		
	
		
		
		
		
			
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			 My reasons are: 
		
	
		
		
		
		
			
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
	I like to buy SPS and LPS frags because the price is lower (I'm not into the $250 LPS colonies these days, but I like pricey stuff haha), I prefer SPS frags because the colonies tend to grow out funny and seem to take longer to settle in and start growing. I prefer LPS colonies because they mostly grow fairly slow, but due to pricing and also lack of space in my tank I tend to buy frags instead.  | 
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			 What's the easiest way to mount frags?  Do you guys glue them on, wedge them in or make holes for plugs ahead of them?  Starting a new tank just getting into corals 
		
	
		
		
		
		
			
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