math question

[Ivan Stoiljkovic]

Hello experts,

Ive been thinking about fragging and propagating, increasing the growth of a colony.
When it comes to SPS to me looks fairly simple, its a waiting game cutting colony wont make it grow faster or will it?

Im specifically thinking about LPS and encrusting corals, if you have lets say a pie colony of acans
or a chalice will cutting a whole colony in 2, 4 or any number of pieces increase speed of growth
or in other words give a colony more linear surface to grow.

No point cutting the colony, it will grow at the same speed?

Thanks

 

[Shaddow_wolf169]

I have always heard cutting they speeds up growth due to more room to grow. I'm not an expert though.

 

[reeferbuddy215]

This is true when u frag sps and lps corals they think a storm hit so they put all their energy into repairing and growing more then if u left it alone. So it does help to frag if done correctly.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

You'd be better imo to increase flow and alkalinity and look into keeping alk stable while insuring your not inhibiting photosynthesis with too much light.

Unless of course you wanna share some frags. ;)

 

[reeferbuddy215]

Well I will be selling them on a large scale but still in the process of getting things set up

 

[reeferbuddy215]

But the only sps corals I have are frags but their big boys fully encrusted gotta be worth over $100 each I paid $13.99 and they looked tan and brown now their blue purple green love it!