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Unread 07/09/2019, 02:08 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Jens Kallmeyer View Post
Sorry, but if you see the farms in Indonesia you would not make this statement. They literally have tens of thousands of mini-colonies, just about twice to three times the size of an average Indo frag. Those get split regularly, a few go into sale, the others into growout. That is actually cheaper and less labor intensive than clipping small pieces from large wild colonies. Even with labor as cheap as in Indonesia, it all boils down to the question how can you mass produce frags with the least amount of work.
I'm not disputing that, but I have never seen such small imported frags in the trade here. Whatever reaches the stores here are reasonably large (between golf to tennis ball sized) "maricultured" corals ("grown out" in the ocean as evident by the quite frequent hitchhiker and symbiotic crabs) which the local stores then often cut down to small frags.
The small frags in the trade here come exclusively from local reefers, US coral farms like ORA, or are fragged from maricultured or wild collected corals by the local stores.


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