Post only corals you own
The frag has to be in your tank, alive, and yours to give. No brokering someone else's coral, no listing something you plan to buy later, no placeholders. If a coral dies or is spoken for, close the listing.
Reefer to reefer
Board rules
A frag board only works while the people on it can be trusted. These are the rules, and what 3x0t1k does and does not do about them.
Your own photos, taken recently
Photos must be of the actual coral you are offering, shot by you, within the last few weeks. Vendor shots, Google images and old photos of a colony you no longer have are not allowed. Say which light you shot under, since actinic flatters everything.
Nothing protected, nothing illegally collected
Do not list species that are protected, or anything you believe was taken from the wild outside the law. Rules vary by country and by state, and they change. If you are not sure a coral can be traded or shipped where you are, check before you list it, not after.
The trade and the shipping are between you two
You agree the terms in the private thread: who pays for the box, which carrier, which day, what happens if it arrives dead. Live corals travel badly outside a narrow window, so most reefers ship overnight early in the week. None of that is arranged or supervised by 3x0t1k.
3x0t1k is not part of the deal
The board is a place to find each other. We do not hold payments, inspect corals, verify claims, insure anything or guarantee any trade, and our live arrival guarantee covers only corals bought from the shop. If a swap goes wrong we may look at the reports and act on the accounts, and that is the extent of it.
How reputation works
When both sides mark a swap completed, each can rate the other once, one to five stars with a comment. That rating is public, permanent and tied to the swap it came from, so nobody can leave one without trading. The number next to a name is the average of those ratings and the count of swaps closed.
Behave like someone worth trading with
Answer the offers you get, even when the answer is no. Do not ask people to move the deal off the board to dodge a paper trail. Keep public comments to care questions and the deal itself in the private thread. Harassment, spam and repeated no shows get accounts suspended.
Reports and what happens next
Any listing can be reported from its own page. Reports are read by staff, who may hide a listing, close it or suspend an account. We may not be able to tell who is right in a dispute between two members, so ratings and reports are recorded rather than judged.
These rules may change as the board grows. The version you are reading is the one in force.