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What:  Fun, Frags, Friends, Trade if you got 'em!

When:  July 31st, 12pm - 5pm

Where:  Please email gracer@reef-farm.com

Come join us for at the farm for hot dogs, chips, and drinks - come for the fun and stay for the frags!  We will have some great deals going on, don't miss it! 

Every single coral and macro discounted!  Everything not on Super Sale is 15% off, so no matter what your heart’s desire, you can count on it being on sale! 

Super Sale Corals & Macros

Reverse Pokerstar Montipora - $20  50% OFF

Green Monitpora Cap - $15  ONLY $8

Purple Montipora Cap - $15  ONLY $8

Orange Montipora Cap - $15  ONLY $8

Green Pocillapora - $15  50% OFF

Green/Blue Striped Mushrooms - $10  ONLY $8

Green Tube Algae - $15  75% OFF

We will be hosting TRAC's monthly meeting at the farm on July 10th, 3pm.  We will open at 12pm, in case you'd like to come pick out your corals early, and will stay until 5pm or later if we still have guests.  Thanks to TRAC for their support; please view their specials and Group Buy Corals here!   Email gracer@reef-farm.com for directions, thank you!

This has been very popular lately - this is a calcerous algae that herbivores generally leave alone - much like halimeda.  Since this is never shipped and hard to get to a matured size indoors - we are pretty sure this is available only at The Reef Farm!

Congradulations to our Photo Contest winner, IReef!  This stunning photo is of a Reef Farm Pocillipora Damicornis, purchased only a short time before this photo was taken!  The prize awarded was a Green Branching Psammacora, we eagerly await seeing the amazing photo we know IReef can take of that! 

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Being one of the pioneers in Stateside Aquaculture, two of the most common questions we get are: 

• What are aquaculture and mariculture;
• What are the differences between maricultured and aquacultured coral. 

Aquaculture is the process of cultivating or raising aquatic species in a closed environment created to match the natural environment as closely as possible.  Mariculture is the process of cultivating or raising aquatic species in a segregated or unnatural location within the natural environment.  For coral mariculture what it truly comes down to is that maricultured species are grown or raised still in the ocean (or saline lakes), but instead of growing on the reef they are harvested from the reef and transplanted into a lagoon or lake to grow.  For coral aquaculture the coral is grown in a closed facility that is not connected to the ocean and is maintained to specifications that are intended to match (or in our case exceed) those of the ocean reef. 

The differences in practices and system designs are easy to explain, but the differences in the end product are not so easily explained; especially to someone new to the aquarium hobby and coral in general.   Read More...

Our latest location Petland at the Arboretum Charlotte NC

We’ve been getting many requests by readers regarding where to find fish and coral from The Reef Farm.  We also wanted to support the stores that support us and the best way to do that is to let our readers know who has the freshest livestock.  There is a new section on the right named “Our Stores” and in that section you can find links to the stores that carry our products. 

There is lots of great new livestock delivered today, but I will let Chandler and the crew show you first hand if you visit them this weekend.  If you do visit them be sure to ask to see The Reef Farm corals and let them know we sent you.