well how do you tell? fine to say, but you cant just go by price, ASAP is a great example, we know that they sell net caught fish, and even a few places that buy from them, but they cant tell us who the sell to and what, nor will the fish stores tell us which fish came from ASAP... so if a place did sell corals that were not slash and burn, which ones would they be? and If your willing to pay more for a few corals, then the prices will increase for all of them. would you pay more for tanked corals than transshiped... I would, less chance of it to RTN, but again how do you know.. I would rather pay more for a coral displayed in proper lighing and filtering... but this is vary rare... so you can collect it properly and ship it/display it improperly and it its worth more? then again should we pay more for a coral just becuse a person is calling it a LE? the corals you buy in the LFS are re fraged, and then the frags are sold at the price of a huge colony, this puts on added stress each time its fraged, once the colony is tanked for a few months and frags are removed, and held in the same system for a few months the chance of them RTN is vary low. but again this is rare, usally the LFS wants to frag them when they get to their shop and sell them off, they are stressed and have a greater chance to RTN. I would at this point rather buy 4-6 inch heads for 12.00-18.00 each direct and buy lots of them and take the risk of losing a few, its only slightly greater risk than buying them from the LFS, and if somthing specialy nice comes in then name it after yourself and put a LE in front of it. and then sell off 1 inch pieces for 100.00 .... god this hobby is full of fools...