I cant see anything wrong with that,
If they cut a piece from the mother colony then it will just regrow back and the small frag will grow and then be sold. Its better than taking the whole mother colony coral out and leaving nothing to regrow.
This is the tip of the iceberg.
We all want cheap stuff, so they collect more.
In a few years we will only get cultured items, so hold on too you wallet.
It has changed on the left hand side, moved out about 40 kgs and removed about 20 coral.
Just felt the rockwork was too high and corals were too packed. got more room to grow now.
Its a german carbon . works great but have to use less, i did not follow the instructions, just added a litre of it.
Lucky i did not have too many losses, Certainly proves the point that too low a nutrient tank is not that good,
Here are some pics of my tank two weesk ago after using too much carbon.
My tank turned out looking looked a desert with no life on the rocks and a number of acropora bleeched and turned brown.
So the advice is if you use a high grade carbon dont use too much, maybe 250ml per 1000L.
Also it depend how you use the carbon. if you use it in a canister filter it will much more Efficient.
Will get some recent pics as the tank has recovered and back to normal.
before overview use of carbon photo
Photo with lots of carbon
Meeting was to be held this week but it is now set for 10 april, sunday.
Few problems, one is getting a decent location and quite a few have other things on this week.
So be Patient.