About Us

Who We are:

The Coral Garden combines over 10 years of working in retail aquatics and 7 years of reef keeping experience, to provide you with high quality cultured corals. We aim to provide corals which have zero impact on reef environments and to conserve what is already threatened. Cultured corals also have a much higher survival rate when acclimatising to aquaria and often grow faster. As a company that has a strong interest in conservation and the environment, we are always looking to new ways to reduce our carbon footprint and recycle where possible as well as finding ways to work actively in overseas reef conservation and mariculture projects.

The Coral Garden began in 2012 in order to provide marine enthusiasts with a reliable and creditable source of healthy Marine corals and aquarium additives. We farm stunning coral from all over the world. Once the coral is big enough, we take very small cuttings and grow them out for a lengthy period of time to produce high quality frags for the consumer. We then let the mother colony rest and grow back out over a period of time, before starting this process again. Each frag is carefully cared for and looked after in our system and nurtured until it is ready to be purchased. We farm both SPS and LPS corals to a high standard, constantly looking for new species of both to add to our system. We are constantly working to provide the best possible conditions for our corals, so that they are always in the prime of their health.

What is 'The Coral Garden':

The Coral Garden is a large coral farm consisting of 3 different systems:

1600L Coral Propagation system. The system itself contains 3 shallow trays for frags(140x80x30cm), feeding into 3 sumps (130x70cmx45cm). Two of these sumps house the mother colonies and frags, whilst the third acts as a refugium.
1400L Import/Maricultured system: 1 tray (160x140x30cm) feeding into a secondary tank, acting as a refugium and holding escess coral (150x65x45cm)
800L Display System: (130x60x60cm and 60x45x45cm TMC Signature) filtered into 1 sump/refugium
Quarantine System: 3 aquariums (100x30x30cm) 
Clean Up Crew System (under construction): 4 x 40x20x25cm tanks, 8 x 30x20x15cm tanks and 8 x 15x15x10cm tanks

All corals are grown under T5 Lighting and incorporate a heavy feeding regime consisting of a daily blend of our own prepared coral foods, live and dried planktons and amino acids. We dose all coral systems using the 'Balling Lite' method, with prepared solutions that we have researched, tested and produced ourselves (Which can be purchased).

 

What conditions are your corals kept under?

Our target levels are:

Temperature: 26°c
dKH/Alkalinity: 8.3
Ca/Calcium: 430ppm
Mg/Magnesium: 1350ppm
pH: 8.2 Salinity: 1.026sg/35.5ppt
NH3/Ammonia 0ppm
NO2/Nitrite 0ppm
NO3/Nitrate: 0-0.2ppm
PO4/Phosphate: 0.008ppm
K/Potassium: 380ppm
I2/Iodine: 0.06ppm
Fe/Iron: 0.15ppm

 

Where are you located?

The Coral Garden is located at the heart of the South Coast in Poole, Dorset

Can i visit?

Yes, you can come and visit the system and purchase/collect corals, however, please note that this is on a strict appointment basis only. Please Contact us to arrange a suitable time and date.

 

The System