Victor’s 13 Secrets to Running a Successful Coral Farm!

Starting your own coral farm? Vic's secrets to success just might help you out! Today, join Ryan and Victor from World Wide Corals, as they discuss the ins and outs of running a coral farm, and what the pros do to maximize coral growth and over all success. Think there's something we missed? Let us know in the comments below and check it out here!
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00:00 - Intro
00:39 - The Right Team and Experience
03:14 - Separate Wild From Aquaculture
04:24 - Parasite Knowledge
05:41 - Maintaining Equipment
07:02 - Temperature Control / Humidity
08:30 - Leak Detectors
12:07 - Large Colonies Grow Faster
14:12 - Having Enough Options
16:06 - Chemistry Owner
16:57 - Checklists and Clear Duties
19:49 - Fragging When the Coral is Happy
21:23 - Farm and Retail Together
24:10 - Using a Reliable Salt
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[@raywells2858]

Great video! WWC has some great processes going on and many are ones I was taught to do in the military and translate very well into civilian applications. WWC is a great example of that in action. The bigger your operation is the more critical some of these practices are if you want to be successful. There is a huge difference in a 40 gallon breeder frag tank at the hobbist level vs a hobbist running several Lowboys vs a Commercial Operation at a business level. Again, great video and I would love seeing many more going forward like this.

[@mattb2906]

Love these conversation videos!

[@Brucelovesjulie]

Victor is awesome!

[@zozocreek8327]

Vic is inspirational.

[@northeastcorals]

Would have been nice to hear what humidity level they actually keep the room at.

[@tomg5405]

Will you do a video on parasite and the solutions?

[@TheRaysfan22]

my LFS told me how they had to sell some Bounces back to WWC after they sold too many / needed more to grow out haha! Just this week too what timing

[@jdearel1]

🤔

[@timothydoyle3380]

I would have charged a mark-up...business is business

[@rolisreefranch]

ORA cuts frags in half. When they double, they repeat the process.

[@brinks128]

I'm always maintaining my 350 gallon equipment

[@mattb2906]

Like all day everyday? 🤣

[@timothydoyle3380]

@@mattb2906 hahaha so good! Great reply. We think alike!

[@Mykeysdaily]

How old are those borbonius anthias?! They are huugggeee

[@BRStv]

They went into the 160 sometime early 2016, so at least 6-7 years old 😀

[@Mykeysdaily]

Wow that's awsome! I read they only live like 3-4 years. Glad to see they can live way longer!

[@Chris58369]

BRS gonna buy WWC next? 🤔

[@mattb2906]

I wonder how their revenue compares

[@timothydoyle3380]

Who knows...it is certainly a lot easier and way less risky/tempermental to establish a successsful business on dry goods and equipment requiring little to no special attention or care as it sits in a box on a shelf (aside from expiry dates on some products), versus dealing with live animals. That being said, I previously wondered if BRS would at some point partner at least with WWC, Tidal Gardens, or Liveaquaria in some way.

[@crtcustoms6140]

I think all sps need acropora crabs to fend of parasites and diseases. From my experience a colony that had a crab or two excelled in health.

[@timothydoyle3380]

In my locale, you only ever seem to see acro crabs when they come in as a hitchhiker on a coral shipment, so it might be hard to get those specifically for this purpose.

[@Sammy31Dee]

Hey Ryan can you investigate why salt is cheaper to buy on Amazon vs BRS etc etc etc....as a LFS owner I find this ridiculous....no way our distributors should be getting undercut by Amazon of all places

[@gregdaniels4440]

Look at who the Amazon seller is. Most of the time it is the manufacturer. Selling direct on Amazon to your customers.

[@hurricaneaquatics]

You need to research supply and demand and take an economics class. An LFS might buy 20 buckets, BRS might buy 300 buckets, Amazon will buy 5000. That's why they can sell it cheaper.

[@mattb2906]

Not sure that’s supply and demand, that’s a bulk discount.

[@hurricaneaquatics]

@@mattb2906 if there was no demand, why would they buy bulk? Sure it's supply and demand. They wouldn't buy bulk unless they knew they could move the product.

[@6jdhd]

I just looked at there salts. There not cheaper then bfs. Just looked at all the salts on Amazon and there why more money then BRS. What are you talking about. Now if your talking about reef crystal and instant ocean. That's salt is garbage anyway. Will never use that salt in my tank. To many Imperatives in the salt

[@rachelwrinn909]

Crabs

[@Robocopterfpv]

The thing I don’t understand is if wwc is so big and great why is their site filled with generic frags u see everywhere at the highest prices In the industry? How are they competing in the current market? Who is buying green slimer and meteorite cyphastria at insanely padded aquaculture prices? How can anyone browse the internet for coral see what’s available (even aquaculture) and choose wwc? Honestly please inform me what I’m missing lol.

[@timothydoyle3380]

I've never shopped there since I'm in Canada and can't get it across the border, but if I were to shop there I'd probably only look for those specialty corals that you dont see everywhere else. Maybe there are minimum order values for free shipping and so people pad what they really want with some more common frags to meet that mark? I mean, if you have to spend an extra $20 for something that you wouldn't normally pay that high, but you don't have another $350 to get a 2nd fancy specialty coral, and it saves you a bunch of $$ on shipping, then it's still worth doing.

[@opethmike]

Step 1. Use slick marketing to convince everybody you're the best Step 2. Create branding to reinforce step 1 Step 3. Use exploitaitive FOMO live "sales" Step 4. Invent silly brand 'names' for corals Step 5. Charge astronomical prices Step 6. Profits

[@DavidTaghehchian]

Exactly. I always found it incredibly disappointing how the hobby was abused for profits in this way.

[@Collins811]

Exactly lol

[@Lags26]

Supply and demand

[@opethmike]

@@Lags26 Artificial demand manipulation

[@monsteryoon5845]

I fell for there live sale bs lol before