We are excited to be celebrating our 14th year in business! We feel that we are a unique company and contributor to the marine aquarium hobby! I thought I would share some information on our business with everyone. I am sure a lot of you are familiar with us as an online vendor but maybe you are not as familiar with everything we do as a company. For those of you that are not familiar with us we would like to get your attention!
Our Aquaculture Facility/ Coral Farm
We are located on the on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where we operate the nation's largest indoor coral farm and reef livestock retail and wholesale outlet. Our facility is the first and only inspected, licensed, and certified coral aquaculture facility in the state of Maryland. We have set up coral farms in the Solomon Islands and clam farms in French Polynesia. Dr. Mac, the owner of Pacific East Aquaculture is a Board-Certified veterinarian and has been a marine aquarium hobbyist since the 1960's. We have four full-time Biologist on staff and a group of 16 college interns who assist us on various research projects.
Our retail outlet is a reef keeper's paradise! We house thousands of corals on a regular basis and are open for retail business 11-5 Eastern Monday-Saturday. Our business is primarily online but we have many walk-in customers that visit our retail facility on a regular basis. Anyone who wants to stop by is more than welcome to and we will give anyone a tour of our facility anytime. Even if you live far away, try to make a trip sometime! Trust me, you will find a trip to our facility well worth your time!
Our Green House!
Our greenhouse was constructed and completed in 2004. It consist of seven 12' X 3' vats outside and there are also two more 12' x 3' vats inside connected to the greenhouse system. Our greenhouse is connected to the main building of our facility. We use a 70% shade cloth on our greenhouse in the summer months when the natural light is most intense. The water in our greenhouse system is temperature controlled via geothermal wells. We grow hundreds of species of coral in our greenhouse including the majority of our SPS corals, Leather corals, and some other soft corals. We also keep our clams out in our greenhouse under the natural lighting. It is not unusual for us to have hundreds and sometimes thousands of Maxima clams and other livestock items out in our greenhouse! It is definitely a sight worth seeing!
Some of the corals we regularly grow in our greenhouse include:
-Over a dozen varieties of Bird's Nest (Seriatopora)
-Porites
-Stylophora
-Acanthastrea lordhowensis
-A variety of Leather corals
-Zoanthids and Palythoas
-Gorgonians
We also keep most of our "mother colonies" out in our greenhouse.
Our Stock
At our aquaculture facility we house hundreds of coral colonies and tens of thousands of frags on a regular basis. We have the largest variety of WYSIWYG corals and clams available online. New stock is posted daily on our website. While the majority of our livestock is cultured at our facility we do receive shipments of new stock weekly.
WYSIWYG Frag Page:
-This is where one can find hundreds to thousands of our WYSIWYG Frags on a regular basis. We always have a huge variety to choose from at GREAT prices! The majority of these frags are aquacultured and very hardy!
Under $15 Frags (Buy 6 and get the 7th one FREE!):
-On any given day there are hundreds of frags posted on this page individually priced for less than $15. Even better these frags are always on sale, buy six and get the 7th frag FREE! There are no limits on this deal, buy 12 get 2 free, buy 18 and get 3 Free! Just mention "Lucky 7" in the customer comments section of your order and we will adjust your invoice when we receive your order. Nothing automatically charges to your card on our website.
Colonies Page:
-Not everyone is looking for frag size pieces! Most of the time when we get in new stock we offer it as a WYSIWYG colony. Best to be quick, if it does not sell we often times cut it up and add it to our collection of aquacultured corals! We regularly import maricultured colonies and wild colonies from all over the world. Dr. Mac hand-picks the majority of our colonies on regular trips to visit our suppliers in person.
We are the exclusive importer of French Polynesian Maxima Clams in the United States. We sell our clams wholesale and retail. Through our partner, we actively culture clams in French Polynesia and offer wild collected and cultured clams from the remote Austral Islands where there are hundreds of millions of wild Maxima clams and also our clam farms are actively producing 40,000 Maxima clams annually. The worldwide aquarium industry export of Maxima clams from French Polynesia amounts to less than 0.1% of the clams used as food, many many tons of Maxima clams are eaten annually as a major human food source in the islands and other areas around the world. Save a clam from the cooking pot, buy it for you aquarium!!
On website we always have a huge variety of WYSIWYG clams to choose from. If you click on the item we also list the size as well. We also import Palau cultured clams including Squamosa, Deresa, Crocea, and Maxima clams.
Along with clams, we import many fish from our collection station in French Polynesian. These fish include Black Tangs, Achilles Tangs, Clown Tangs, Flame Angelfish (Pairs of Flame Angels as well), Leopard wrasse, Lemonpeel Angelfish, Scott's Fairy wrasse pairs, Flame Tailed hawkfish and much more. We collected and imported the first rare Atavai wrasse from French Polynesia as well. This fish was the first of its kind from this region to be imported into the United States. Our French Polynesian fish are very beautiful and extremely hardy. All of our fish go through a two month quarantine before they are exported from French Polynesia.
Celebrating Our 14th Year in Business!
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