Live Coral - Reef Aquarium Live Corals

Aquarium Live Coral

Live Coral loves to be pampered - When you buy live corals from Aquatic Connection, you can be assured you will buy live aquarium corals that have been pampered and properly cared for. Any live coral that has been collected and shipped halfway across the globe, arrives understandably, in need of some rejuvenation. Which is why we do our best to downright pamper them during their stay. Whether you are interested in Live Acropora corals, Aquacultured corals, SPS corals, LPS corals, Mushroom corals, Xenia coral, Zoanthid corals, Leather corals, or any other Soft coral, their treatment begins with a slow-drip acclimation to equalize temperature, ph and alkalinity. Then we place the aquarium coral in our reef aquarium holding tanks where the water quality is perfect. High current wave action cleans any built up slime coat and loosens the sand and bacteria from their long journey. Their polyps begin to extend and reach out to the available food and light.

Appropriate Coral Lighting - All aquarium corals are placed in appropriate lighting depending upon there needs. For low light corals, they are placed under Power Compacts. On reef aquarium corals that need extreme lighting, we use only the best Metal Halide 1000-watt, 6,700K metal halide lighting to which will awaken the sleeping polyps and color enhancing zooxanthellae. Under these conditions our corals thrive and nourish, until we send them on their way.

Picking and packaging your aquarium coral - All live corals shipped out, are chosen with the most stringent quality controls followed. All corals are packaged with the utmost care, and carefully labeled to make identification easier for the beginner aquarist. We ship our corals using Fedex overnight services, and they are delivered right to your door.

Live Coral Selection

Special Notes: Please note unless stated within the description, the picture(s) of the item(s) for sale are generic pictures of items that we have had in stock at some point. Due to differences in animals the item you receive may not look identical to the picture, however we hand choose each item for health and beauty. Another factor you need to consider is that different aquarium systems have different lighting, the spectrum of light, the wattage and kelvin, and even the type of lighting (ie: PC vs. VHO vs HQI vs Mogul Halide) all will make colors look very different. Aquatic Connection Live tanks are lit by 400 watt 20K HQI Halide bulbs. We use these bulbs because it provides the perfect balance of natural white light along with the deeper actinic blue that corals need to bring out the correct colors and to thrive off of. If your tank consists of all daylight (10K's, 65K's etc.) with minimal actinic lighting, your not going to get as many of the vibrant true colors from your corals as you would with the correct lighting combination. If you need better descriptions of our corals or help with lighting, please feel free to contact us.

Advanced Aquarist Items - Considered for advanced aquarists only items have more intensive care needs, and/or specialized feeding needs, and/or specialized tank needs. Because of the added care responsiblilities, Aquatic connection Live has labeled these items for advanced aquarists only and while they come with a guarantee that they will be delivered to you alive and in good condition, they do not carry our normal guarantee period. If there is a problem with a restricted specimen on delivery, we must be contacted via email with a digital picture within 2 hours of delivery for a replacement speciment. The Fedex time stamp will be used for the start of your 2 hour window.

Typographical errors - Once in a while, there may be a mistake on an item on www.aquacon.com website. If found, the products price will be corrected. Any typographical errors are not honored.