About H@rry
I'm a retired computer analyst and my wife M@ry Ruth is retired
from civil service. Back in 1999 we
started a couple of reef tanks, a 190 gallon and a 225 gallon.
We made a few newbie mistakes (a couple that resulted in water on
the floor) but we worked through them and learned some valuable
lessons.
As time went on we accumulated quite a few corals with mixed
success. After a year or so we were attracted to the beauty of
SPS corals and began to slowly remove the "softies" to have places
to put newly acquired SPS corals. The more we watched them
grow, the more we were impressed with their beauty and decided that this was
the direction we wanted to go.
Since that time we have been slowly "culling" corals that looked
"blah" and displayed the common brown colors that are often seen
from frags that are grown from wild collected coral. We were
interested in acquiring only the most colorful and hardy corals
available. A very few of our first specimens came from
commercial vendors and LFSs, but the vast majority came from fellow
hobbyists such as you and I who had successfully propagated corals
from frags to healthy mature colonies.
At about the same time as many of our coral colonies began to mature, we
were impressed with the plight of the world's coral reefs. We
learned of the alarming impact that unregulated collection of "wild
corals" has on an otherwise healthily coral reef. We
realized that we might be able to make a contribution that would
ease the burden on the world's coral reefs. It was at that
point that we began to learn how to "frag" corals. At first we
shared with local hobbyists that we had met through our local reef
club. We were very pleased when we saw others achieve the same
success that we have enjoyed with our coral frags.
In 2007 we realized that our colonies had grown to the point that
they had begun to touch each other, sting each other, and shade out
some of their neighbors. It was at that point that we decided
to attempt to ship coral frags to other hobbyists. I took some
pictures of the corals and put a post on a well known public
Internet reef site. The response was very good and the
shipping also went well. Since that time we have successfully
shipped "frag packs" to 48 states in all types of weather.
We're not running a "frag factory". We don't cut up
wild corals and glue them to a rock. We have grown all of our
corals from tiny pieces to the size that you will see here. This is not even a "mom and pop" business, it is a hobby gone
"out of control"; but we enjoy every minute of it. We invite
you to take a look at what we have to offer. Maybe you will
find something that you like. If you do, we'll send a "frag
pack" to your doorstep!
Thanx
H@rry and M@ry Ruth