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Welcome
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PowerBuy Specials for your local Reef Club
Please
Note: We no longer sell direct to the Public as of March 10, 2010.
Currently
the only way we are selling our Captive Bred Corals is throughPower Buys with your
local Reef Clubs. Click
here to email us to inquire how to set a PowerBuy.
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Take a Virtual Tour of Scientific Corals Own
Coral Farm For the first
time ever, you can get a good look at our coral farm. Click on the picture at left
or click here
to view a six minute video. Presented for the first time ever, beginning December
8, 2009. Be sure to turn your sound on. |  | Farm
raised (captive-bred) corals. An idea whose time has finally come. Why
should you buy captive-bred instead of wild-caught corals? Frankly, wildcaught corals
scare me to death. Many are infested with valonia (pictured), flatworms, parasitic
crabs, nudibranchs, RTN, etc. Most of our systems are permanently closed to incoming
wild caught organisms. Buying captive-bred corals benefits both the buyer and the
wild reefs. The corals are the most...(read
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We are a true Coral
Farm, not a Frag Factory! (Whats
the difference?) And like all farms, we plant
and grow "crops" of corals and periodically release them for sale to you.
Because of this, our availability will vary over time. Its
our goal to eventually have all of items available all of the time.
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This has to be the
Rarest Soft Coral in the World! And we grow it! This
is the double-headed Fluorescent Green Leather Coral. (Sarcophyton sp.) Its ridiculously
expensive, but at least the money goes for a good cause-to grow more captive-bred
corals and help preserve the natural reefs. Genetically identical to its cousin to
the right. Click the picture to take you to its main page |  |
Coral reefs, the "rainforests of the seas", are
facing an increasing plethora of threats from pollution, sedimentation, coral bleaching,
overfishing and tourism, and we believe that by providing
as much captive bred livestock as possible, we can relieve some of the pressure on
the ocean reefs....(read
more).
Recently Charlie Veron, who wrote the
"Bible" on coral reefs (Corals of Australia and the Indo Pacific) said that
the coral reefs have 20 years left, no matter what we do ! Yikes ! |
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recent study by the United Nations says that up to 12 million
wild stony corals are harvested each year.The aquarium trade has been criticized for
the use of unsustainable collection techniques and poor husbandry practices. Unlike
freshwater aquarium species, where 90 per cent of fish species are currently farmed,
99% marine aquariums are stocked from wild caught species, which can cause irreversible
damage to coral reefs if not done properly. | | |
If
you have any problems or comments about our new website, please
email
us. Scientific Coral sells Live Captive-Bred Corals direct
to the Public
in the Continental United States |
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