DFS Coral Farm

Took a tour of FosterSmith's coral farm yesterday...that place is nothing short of amazing. I've never seen so many corals in one place.

It was tough to choose what to buy, I felt like a kid in a candy store.

Here's what I came home with..

purple gomezi


green birdsnest


duncan


and some blue zoas that dont have a picture of yet.

 

Cool... do they let you go in there like a normal store?

 

I don't think its open to the public on a daily basis. I do think they arrange tours for reef clubs/larger groups on Saturdays. This is what we did, we have a local club and it just so happens we're lucky enough to be only a couple hours away from Rhinelander.


I will get some pics of the farm posted shortly.

 

some shots of the facility
sorry for the poor picture quality...


acclimation area




main farm area as you first walk in (and random people)
there's 3 main rows that are about twice as long as what you can see here


random shots

 

wow

all I can say lol

 

wow! this looks awesome where is this?

 

It was pretty neat too that they had a fish or two in some of the tanks. Most were nothing too special but at one point I was standing there looking in at some corals and this $2500 gem tang was just kinda making passes and looking back at me. Took me a second to really realize what I was lookin at

 

I wonder what their electricity bill is

 

I asked a guy at a local lamp store.. he said he's heard it's between 6 and 8 thousand a month. hehe