Spslvr
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We are currently working with a clam farmer who has a batch of teardrops cooking as we speak, so in the next 6-12 months you may find some filtering their way through to the U.S...
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We are currently working with a clam farmer who has a batch of teardrops cooking as we speak, so in the next 6-12 months you may find some filtering their way through to the U.S...
Spslvr
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A bit of both, at the moment we are still building our motherstock, hopefully within the next 2 years we will have no need to collect wild stock but we are only fairly young and are expanding our facility more as time goes buy, either way weather our frags are taken from our existing mother colonies or are fragged from wild colonies, they are grown out and 'tank hardened' before they are sold, we have quite a few second gen frags coming through as we speak and as i said this will continue to grow. So yes it is aquacultutre primarily because our systems are stand alone and not connected to the ocean as maricultured are..
I suppose people could be nasty and call us a chop shop but i think thats grossely unfair as we put alot of time and effort into growing and coloring our frags and maintaining our systems in the best possable way to ensure all our frags are healthy, we are doing alot more than just selling broken bits of coral....
Spslvr
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"I suppose people could be nasty and call us a chop shop but i think thats grossely unfair as we put alot of time and effort into growing and coloring our frags and maintaining our systems in the best possable way to ensure all our frags are healthy, we are doing alot more than just selling broken bits of coral...."
I'm not trying to sound nasty. I used to work at an aquaculture place so I am just curious. I can understand that you are a young company and bills need to be paid. I also understand for that to happen you need to do what you need to do. It does take time to build up stock. I am not saying anything bad about that. I am sorry you took my questions wrong.
Do you get to collect your own corals? If so that would be fun. You have a monster amount to pick and choose from. You don't have to go to a wholesaler to see if there is something you really like.
I am guessing you use ocean water? Can you pump it in right from the beach or do you have to go out a ways to collect it? I make my own water, but people who collect theirs have to wait for the incoming tide or go out in the boat to collect it.
I'm not trying to sound nasty. I used to work at an aquaculture place so I am just curious. I can understand that you are a young company and bills need to be paid. I also understand for that to happen you need to do what you need to do. It does take time to build up stock. I am not saying anything bad about that. I am sorry you took my questions wrong.
Do you get to collect your own corals? If so that would be fun. You have a monster amount to pick and choose from. You don't have to go to a wholesaler to see if there is something you really like.
I am guessing you use ocean water? Can you pump it in right from the beach or do you have to go out a ways to collect it? I make my own water, but people who collect theirs have to wait for the incoming tide or go out in the boat to collect it.
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Sorry about that. Somehow I reposted the same post.
Several years ago I did some reading on growing corals with electrolysis. It would be very interesting to hear how it goes. I hope you can keep us updated.
Spslvr
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Ah no offence taken...
We do collect our own stock and it is alot of fun.
We are a bit to far from the ocean to pump it direct but we do use ocean water..
And collecting stock also allows us to keep up with what the market dictates.
For instance nasutas seem to be a hot item at the moment, we go and collect them frag them and in 6 months or so the second gen frags will be coming through, a while ago everyone wanted strawberry shortcake so now we have plenty of second gen and even third gen strawberries.
As for electro it is yeilding some fantastic results..
We do collect our own stock and it is alot of fun.
We are a bit to far from the ocean to pump it direct but we do use ocean water..
And collecting stock also allows us to keep up with what the market dictates.
For instance nasutas seem to be a hot item at the moment, we go and collect them frag them and in 6 months or so the second gen frags will be coming through, a while ago everyone wanted strawberry shortcake so now we have plenty of second gen and even third gen strawberries.
As for electro it is yeilding some fantastic results..
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Buddhatank
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Beautiful set up guys!
Spslvr
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Basically we put a low voltage chrge into the water through an anode and cathode to stimulate the corals into laying down calcium carbonate [growing], this is not a new method and there is a patented method called biorock or electrolytic mineral accretion this is conducted in open ocean and consists of large steel structures, we have adapted this to work in aquaria and to my knowledge we are the only people in the world to be successful, unless anyone knows different....
urbanrat84
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Following along, hi from a fellow Aussie 
Chad Vossen
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We still want strawberry shortcakes, just not $500 colonies. If the strawberry shortcakes were still coming in and being sold at normal aussie acro prices, they'd still be hot.
Chad Vossen
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Of course, the problems wasn't with the suppliers, but rather the wholesalers and retailers. I recall people at shows with colonies, and selling them $50/inch and breaking off frags for buyers. Shortly after, colony prices jumped sky high.
Chad Vossen
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I really like that you're farming these corals, and I hope to see aussie grown frags available in the USA eventually.
I do have a question though, why isn't Australia doing mariculture? It's successful in Bali and other places. It makes me sad to see chunks of acro coming in that are clearly broken off of a larger colony. I wish they would come in as mini colonies encrusted to a base in the way that the bali acros do.
I do have a question though, why isn't Australia doing mariculture? It's successful in Bali and other places. It makes me sad to see chunks of acro coming in that are clearly broken off of a larger colony. I wish they would come in as mini colonies encrusted to a base in the way that the bali acros do.
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