barrierreefcf
Sponsor
One of the major points driven home at MACNA XX was the fact that we must continue to be responsible about the way we act within this hobby. While collection for the hobby has a minimal effect on coral reefs the other factors are undeniably doing reefs harm. With politicians in Hawaii running on the shut collection of species "x" and "y" down ticket, Tonga recently shutting down live rock harvest, and the Banggai Cardinal population being drastically reduced by hobbyist collection, it is obvious that the hobby as a whole needs to move in a direction of self sustainability through aquaculture and mariculture. For it to really work large scale co-ops and aquaculture facilities must continue to develope but in the meantime we want to do what we can.
Barrier Reef has always sold as many captive bred fish, inverts, and corals as we possibly could. We grow many of our own corals, buy from farms and local hobbyists, as well as real mariculture facilities. The one place we feel we can grow is through buying more from local hobbyists. We are going to organize our local hobbyist supplier registry. Rather than waiting for customers to come to us and ask if we want frags we are going to keep a contact list with records of what frags each individual can produce. We will be proactive about contacting you when we need more of frags "a" or "b". Credit and cash prices, sizing, quantity will all be worked out through private conversations. We ask that any of you who would like to supply us with certain items on a regular basis please contact us with the following:
1. Name and Screen Name
2. Email or phone number
3. Species you could harvest semi-regularly and color.
4. Price per size and credit/cash preference you think is fair. Remember we usually give 25%-50% of retail depending on item. You are selling wholesale and we sell retail.
5. Pictures of species if possible.
6. Info about lighting you keep species under.
Thanks!
Barrier Reef has always sold as many captive bred fish, inverts, and corals as we possibly could. We grow many of our own corals, buy from farms and local hobbyists, as well as real mariculture facilities. The one place we feel we can grow is through buying more from local hobbyists. We are going to organize our local hobbyist supplier registry. Rather than waiting for customers to come to us and ask if we want frags we are going to keep a contact list with records of what frags each individual can produce. We will be proactive about contacting you when we need more of frags "a" or "b". Credit and cash prices, sizing, quantity will all be worked out through private conversations. We ask that any of you who would like to supply us with certain items on a regular basis please contact us with the following:
1. Name and Screen Name
2. Email or phone number
3. Species you could harvest semi-regularly and color.
4. Price per size and credit/cash preference you think is fair. Remember we usually give 25%-50% of retail depending on item. You are selling wholesale and we sell retail.
5. Pictures of species if possible.
6. Info about lighting you keep species under.
Thanks!
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