Amatuer Reef farming

[Redbird5]

I'm researching how to start a coral farm to offset the cost of this hobby. What types of coral would be easy and in demand? I have a small frags of hammer, trumpet coral and I'll have a frag of pipe organ as well. I also have RFAs that I hope will reproduce. What tools do I need? BRS has a couple of tool kits that I'm interested in.

 

[Subsea]

What corals are you presently growing?
As a Laissez Faire reefer, I like easy softies as a good starting platform. Consider a softie tank with ornamental macro algae. No tools required for that mariculture.

Do not sell your breeding stock: by that I mean decide what volume you can sustainably produce with your present real estate & time management.

 

[Redbird5]

What corals are you presently growing?
As a Laissez Faire reefer, I like easy softies as a good starting platform. Consider a softie tank with ornamental macro algae. No tools required for that mariculture.

Do not sell your breeding stock: by that I mean decide what volume you can sustainably produce with your present real estate & time management.

Right now I have a toadstool, pulsing polyps, a trumpet coral, one hammer coral, orange rfa and a galaxy rfa that's green and yellow. .

I'm choosing coral I like and enjoy and not worrying about what will sell or not. If down the road I can sell some of it or trade it for something, great, if not, so be it I'm happy with it.
It'd be nice to offset the cost of this hobby.

 

[AlvinDiver]

If you can, join a local club. You'll be more likely to trade and sell your corals there and get cheaper frags in return to build your collection.