How big is too big?

[Jon M.]

When do you decide to ditch or frag a coral? I’ve got a frogspawn that is 8” in diameter when open. Its starting to shadow other corals. I love it but its getting huge

 

[AngryMike2016]

Frag it, and sell/give away the frags.

 

[hyprc]

Frag it, and sell/give away the frags.

This. You could actually make some decent money as even 'common' frogspawn frags in my area have about tripled since the Indo ban.

 

[LiveWire]

When do you decide to ditch or frag a coral? I’ve got a frogspawn that is 8” in diameter when open. Its starting to shadow other corals. I love it but its getting huge

If its blocking light to other corals I would say its time to frag it and either set the new frags in your reef or like others stated above you can sell them off.

 

[dylana407]

Send it to me. Problem solved. :)

 

[Jon Fishman]

I wish I had these kinds of problems..... my Frogspawn was the one and only piece I've gotten so far that died...... If you fragged it in one big hunk, I'd be interested.

 

[reefologist55]

I used to have a huge 35+ head frogspawn...and kept selling single heads to my lfs for store credit.... eventually someone made me an offer I could not refuse and I sold the entire colony...it barely fit into a 5g bucket!!

 

[rogersb]

I try to keep things to a size that the coral below get enough light. I had a green with purple tips indo torch that put on 12 heads over the last year. It was shading all the zoas below it so I chopped them off and took them to a swap. The current colony is about 15 heads which is a nice size and allows the zoas to get all the light they need.