What constitutes a frag in your opinion?

[CoryDude]

In other words, if it's a two inch frag of some SPS and then it starts suffering in your tank like tissue recession or similar mishap, you can cut off the damaged area to keep the whole alive. In a 1/4" piece you are limited to what you are able to grow should something happen before it's large enough.

Never considered you a noob Allan. If so, I wish my early tanks looked like yours. That's my whole problem with the smaller pieces. You've got very little room for error since you can't cut anything off.

I have been guilty of sending fresh cuts out the door, but I also do not have a frag tank set up so a bunch of frags in my 30g won't work for too long as real estate is at a premium. One of the things I like as an infrequent seller is finding feedback on how the frags that I let go are doing in someone else's tank. I always worry about selling so I do not do it often and usually it is an extreme circumstance, ie. need room because coral are at war, when I broke the 90 down, or trading with others.

Completely agree with everything you said here. I really don't like selling frags. The one time I sold those bird's nest frags, I would have taken it personally if a frag died in the buyer's tank. I tried to frag at least 2-3" pieces with multiple branches so the buyers could snip any pieces that died during acclimation in their tank.

As far as fresh cut, I don't like them, but everything in my tank was a fresh cut piece when it entered my system. I guess that's why I prefer to by from a lfs. ORA, Fishheads, and the other's won't send out pieces to the retailers until they're ready and healthy. It may cost a bit more, but it's worth it.