Hand fragged in Queens NY
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Every frag is one of one
The photo is the animal. The exact colony in that shot is the one that lands on your doorstep, cut by hand and photographed under the same light your tank runs. No stock images, no second copy in the back room.
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Live arrival guaranteedPhoto in the bag, credit same day
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Overnight, Tuesday to ThursdayNext shipping day: Thu, Nov 12
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Real photos, no filterActinic and daylight, both shots
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Local pickup in Queens NYBring your own container
Drop of the week
Fresh off the frag rack
Cut, healed, and photographed this week. Each piece below exists exactly once, so the cart holds it for thirty minutes and no longer.
Browse by type
Six ways to fill a rock
Every listing carries flow, light, placement and aggression, because a coral in the wrong spot is a coral you buy twice.
SPS
Small polyp stony. Acropora, Montipora, Stylophora. High light, high flow, zero patience for a swinging alkalinity.
Browse SPSLPS
Large polyp stony. Torches, hammers, acans, chalices. Fleshy, slow, and the reason people stop and stare.
Browse LPSSofties
Leathers, mushrooms, xenia. Forgiving corals that move with the water.
Browse SoftiesZoas & Palys
Colonial polyps in colors that should not be legal. Beginner friendly, collector deadly.
Browse Zoas & PalysAnemones
Bubble tips and carpets. Hosts for clowns, wanderers by nature.
Browse AnemonesClean Up Crew
Snails, hermits, and the shrimp that keeps the sand honest.
Browse Clean Up Crew
Under actinic
Why everything here looks blue
Reef lights run heavy on the blue end, somewhere between 14000K and 20000K. That spectrum is what makes the fluorescent proteins in coral tissue fire, and it is the light your frag will actually live under. Shooting it any other way would be selling you a color you never get to see.
So we shoot both. Every listing has the actinic frame and the daylight frame, untouched, no saturation slider. Drag the divider and you see the same polyp under both lights. That is the real range you are buying.
Community
The Frag Board
Reefers post two kinds of cards: what they are growing out and have to spare, and what they are still hunting for. Match, agree, ship frag for frag.
Every closed swap leaves reputation on both profiles, so you know who bags properly and who answers their messages before you pack a box for a stranger.
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Have and Want cards Post what is on your rack or what you are chasing, with photos under both lights.
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Reputation per closed swap Scores come from finished trades only. Nothing counts until both boxes land.
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One thread per offer Offers, counters and the shipping date live in a single conversation.
Logistics
How it arrives alive
Four steps, one night in transit, and a guarantee that pays out on a photo instead of an argument.
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Bagged
Each frag goes into doubled bags with its own tank water and a shot of pure oxygen, then a padded sleeve so nothing rolls onto a tip.
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Insulated box
Foam liner inside the carton with a 72 hour heat pack or a cool pack, chosen from the forecast at your zip code the morning it ships.
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Overnight
Handed over Tuesday to Thursday only, never Friday, so no box sits in a warehouse over a weekend. Tracking hits your inbox that night.
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Acclimation
Float, drip, dip, place low and let it settle for a week. Photograph the sealed bag before you open it: that photo is your entire claim.
Just landed
Latest arrivals
The list
Drops sell out in minutes
One email per drop, sent the night before it goes live, with names, photos and prices. The people on this list buy the grails. Everyone else reads about them.
No spam and no partner blasts. One click and you are out.