Coral Fragging Information
There is a great deal of coral fragging information available via many various media forums. The practice of propagating corals has been a hobby and occupation for many years.
People have been fragging corals for a very long time – perhaps as long as there’s been something to keep them in. The widespread practice of keeping live corals in the home has the developments of better filtration and protein skimmers to thank. Those who have been keeping corals for more than a few years can tell you that there is so much information for the reef aquarium enthusiast, that you’d be hard pressed to read it all in a single lifetime.
Books
Thus, it seems best to press on and find a specific topic that is of particular use or interest to you. For instance, there are so many book about aquascaping in general that it might be instructional to pick up a book dedicated to live rock or the lighting requirements needed for each coral. Most local fish stores carry such books. If you can’t be bothered with traveling around, you can also find them online for purchase. These may not give you the most up-to-date coral fragging information, because it takes a long time to get to the publisher, the printing and binding take a few months to years from one end to the other. If your information needs to be more up to date than that, you’ll want to try something that can go live more quickly, like reef forums or periodicals.
Magazines
Like many hobbies, keeping corals has an avid following and several dedicated hobbyist magazines. While much of the content is wide spread to cover all topics, many of the articles are meaty and useful to the fist-time keeper. Since many are stocked in your local fish stores, they are easy to get and subscribe to.
Online
Looking up information has become second nature to many. You can find just about anything addressed by an expert in the field. As such, there is a wealth of information that you may be hit with all at once.
You should be very careful when using the internet as a primary research tool for coral fragging information, however. Even the most heavily travelled websites are prone to poor research and errors. Always check sources and try to find the original article – you may be surprised how few even cite sources. The trick to finding coral fragging information isn’t finding what is available, but what is actually useful. There are many excellent reef aquarium forums and clubs out there.