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Unique Corals was founded with the mission of supporting a conscientious, sustainable and responsible marine livestock industry.

Our goal is to be your top online source for sustainably collected, aquacultured, and captive-bred marine livestock, and we have partnered with some of the best collectors, propagators, and breeders to help achieve that goal.

Today, we are very excited to announce that Unique Corals is the launch partner for ReefGen, a new operation founded by Laura Birenbaum and Justin Credabel, in collaboration with Joe Yaiullo. ReefGen delivers on the promise of providing consumers with a healthy domestic alternative for marine livestock.

ReefGen produces premium aquacultured coral, invertebrates, fishes and sharks. Their farm is located in Riverhead, NY and works closely with Joe Yaiullo, curator at the Long Island Aquarium. Here, Joe and his talented staff of professional aquarists, including breeding specialist Todd Gardner, are famed for their extraordinary accomplishments in aquaculture of marine ornamentals.

Joe’s 12-year-old, 20,000-gallon reef tank is renowned as the largest collection of captive grown corals in the world, some of which have been around for more than 21 years. ReefGen is a wholesale aquaculture company founded by Laura Birenbaum and Justin Credabel, who have worked with the aquarium to develop their existing aquaculture accomplishments into a large-scale sustainable resource of captive-propagated fish and corals for the aquarium trade.

Look for a large selection of premium, captive-propagated livestock from ReefGen on Unique Corals website (Unique Corals Home Page).

For the first time, hobbyists will have the opportunity to purchase an extraordinary selection of coral propagated from Joe’s iconic reef aquarium, as well as extremely rare captive-bred animals. We will be offering more items, including very rare captive-bred Basslets, Chain Dog Sharks, Flamboyant Cuttlefish, and others, as soon as they become available.

This is a big day for hobby, and we look forward to bringing this truly unique livestock lineup to you! Please join us in supporting this extraordinary collaboration!

Be bold. Be passionate. Be unique.

Regards,

Joseph Caparatta and Scott Fellman
Unique Corals


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:clap2: This is the kind of business model that will keep the hobby alive for years to come. Keep up the good work guys! :clap2:
 

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Really like how this is turning out...I'll be sure to contact you soon for a visit.

Love the idea of ReefGen...would love to know more about it.

Hope to see you guys soon.
 
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Thanks very much.

We will always do our best to support companies like RefGen. It's so important for the hobby.

We will continue to offer sustainably collected wild livestock from sources that we feel comfortable with, as well as corals and fishes from propagators of all sizes. Although it may be almost impossible to be 100% sustainable at this time, we feel that companies like ReefGen, and the many other propagators and breeders worldwide, as well as sustainable collectors like EcoAquariums PNG, will make a difference.

-Scott
 

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what are these?

but awesome news! congrats on the partnership. :)

The name was on the site.. but now it's gone! I thought they were RBTA, but they're a temperate species of anemone that Unique Corals has been growing out in their 20,000 reef.
 
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what are these?

but awesome news! congrats on the partnership. :)

Hey Marvin, these are Actinia anemones. They are a temperate species, as buddy points out. The crew at Long Island Aquarium has acclimated them over time to the reef, so they seem to fare just fine in our typical home reef conditions. Oh, it's Long Island's 20,000gallon reef...We have a mere 14,500 gallons of water at our facility...:squigglemouth:
 

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Hey Marvin, these are Actinia anemones. They are a temperate species, as buddy points out. The crew at Long Island Aquarium has acclimated them over time to the reef, so they seem to fare just fine in our typical home reef conditions. Oh, it's Long Island's 20,000gallon reef...We have a mere 14,500 gallons of water at our facility...:squigglemouth:
LOL! Sorry, meant to say the original 20,000 reef tank. Was going back and forth on names, haha!
 
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Oh, and sorry for the site dropping out...Our developer was doing a previously requested site improvement at the time we released this stuff (perfect timing, huh?)...They assure us that the sie will be back online later this afternoon. Sorry for the confusion!

Hmm...if we were unscrupulous, we could have said something like, "Our server crashed due to overwhelming demand!" (but I don't think there are enough reefers on the planet to do that!)...:wink:
 
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Oh, and sorry for the site dropping out...Our developer was doing a previously requested site improvement at the time we released this stuff (perfect timing, huh?)...They assure us that the site will be back online later this afternoon. Sorry for the confusion!

Hmm...if we were unscrupulous, we could have said something like, "Our server crashed due to overwhelming demand!" (but I don't think there are enough reefers on the planet to do that!)...:wink:

In the meantime, I can taunt you with another clown that you can't purchase until the website is back up:


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I'm being bad, sorry!
 
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And of course, we all know of the famous aquarium at Long Island Aquarium where these beautiful animals come from...

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Joe Yaiullo's 20,000 gallon reef aquarium- the largest aquarium of propagated corals in the world...An inspiration for us all! Enjoy.
 

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That clown looks like it has been playing with white out, hahahah!

Congrats on the partnership and keep up the great work on moving things in this hobby toward optimum sustainability!
 
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That clown looks like it has been playing with white out, hahahah!

Congrats on the partnership and keep up the great work on moving things in this hobby toward optimum sustainability!

Thanks, KLR, we're working really hard to achieve that, as are many of our fellow vendors and wholesalers. Lots of good people in this hobby/industry!
 

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