Limited Edition (LE) Corals from Reeffarmers are rare
and exotic corals distributed on a limited reservation basis. Buyers reserve
future captive grown fragments harvested on monthly, bimonthly or trimonthly
rates. Their current reservation status can be checked through the links below. There
are subpages for the popular Acropora, Montipora and Echinophyllia/Oxypora coral genera.
A Retired LE link contains those LE Corals that Reeffarmers has stoped distributing.
Our shipping and reservation policies are explained below. A legal restrictions notice
below also defines the use of the Reeffarmers trademark. New LE corals will be listed
first on this page. After one month new Acropora, Montipora or Echinophyllia/Oxypora LE corals
will be moved to their appropiate subpage. On each LE page corals are listed in the
order they were released by Reeffarmers. New corals are added to the top of each list.
Shipping Policy - Reeffarmers.com is shipping all Limited Edition Fragments within
Igloo Coolers to help ensure their safe arrival. These coolers are much stronger then
the typical cardboard covered styrafoam containers which occasionally crack and get
crushed. Outer cardboard boxes can also get destroyed if there is any water leakage.
We currently ship through Federal Express next day afternoon delivery. We guarantee
live arrival and will replace the Limited Edition if the coral dies within the first week.
We will need a photo of the dead coral for verification.
Reservation Policy - All reservation dates are only approximate harvesting and shipping
dates. For example, if a reef aquarist makes a reservation for October 2004 and
another reservation for December 2004, we can still ship both together to save the
reef aquarists shipping costs. Some reservations may be shipped ahead of other
reservations. This is only done to ship multiple reservations by reef aquarists
together whenever possible. We will try to only ship multiple reservations together in
the same shipment to the same reef aquarist if the aquarist reservation dates are
no more then 5 months apart. Occasionally we get reservation cancellations. On the
reservation schedule cancellations are handled many different ways. If the coral is
producing fragments at rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation date
is in the future, it will be marked available. If the coral is producing fragments at
rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation date is within a few months
of current, it will offerred to a private cancellation email list. If the coral is
producing fragments at rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation date
is in the past, the reservation and fragment will be either offerred to our private
LE mail list or sold through a Southwestern Coral Farmers Market event. If the coral is
not producing fragments at rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation is
within a few months of the current date, the reservation for that month will be cancelled
and will not be available to reef aquarists. If the coral is not producing fragments at
rates that keep up with the schedule and the reservation is more then a few months in the
future, the reservation for that month will be made available to reef aquarists. We will
assume that the growth rate will eventually increase. Please note - we cannot automatically
move everyones reservation ahead one month just because someone ahead cancelled their
reservation. This is because some reef aquarist may not want their reservation moved
ahead. Notifying each aquarists when a reservation is cancelled is too time consuming.
So if you already have a reservation for a coral and you see that an earlier reservation
has become available, please send us email asking to be moved ahead to that reservation.
If you are looking for a new reservation and you happen to see an early one become available,
consider yourself lucky. When a reservation is made it is made for the month reserved
and does not guarantee any specific shipping order. Also, Reeffarmers.com reserves the
right to cancell any and all reservations. This can be due to the loss of a parent colony
or due to the inability to contact the aquarist who has the reservation. Full refunds
will be given for any cancellation that was paid for before reciept of the reservation
or any deposits that were made.
Legal Restrictions Notice
Customers are starting to confuse, Limited Editions that other companies develop and sell, with
Reeffarmers. The term 'Limited Edition' was first used by Reeffarmers to define specific
farmed corals that Reeffarmers grows and sells by fragments. They are limited and reserved ahead
of time. We were not the first company to generically use the term. It has been used in the
automobile and collectables industries for years. We were the first company however to use the term
in describing farmed coral. We are not trademarking or copyrighting that specific use. Other reef
farmers and companies can use that term. We believe it is public domain now. To prevent confusion
by customers concerning which company is associated with a specific Limited Edition, Reeffarmers
has developed a Trademark image that we are registering as a copyright. The image is a composite
of 4 coral images around the word 'Reeffarmers'. You can see the trademark on our main home page.
This trademark now appears in every Reeffarmers Limited Edition and Auctioned Edition web page and
Reeffarmers owns this trademark. A trademarked image can only be legally used by non-owners of the
trademark when specific right to use is granted by the trademarks owner.
For information purposes, anyone can link to a Reeffarmers web page that contains the
trademark. No one can incorporate the trademark into a web page that is not constructed and not
published by Reeffarmers, if such right has not been granted by the trademark owners. This will
allow Reeffarmers to inform the public that any Limited Edition or Auction Edition Web page that
contains the Trademark (located in the upper left of the page) is a Web Page published by
Reeffarmers. This will avoid customers confusing another companies products
with Reeffarmers. We will take legal action against anyone associating our trademark with a product
or reservation of a product not sold by Reeffarmers.com. Informational linking to our unaltered web
pages containing the trademark is permitted. If you farm one of our corals for resale, you can
still provide your customers with an information only link to our pages containing the trademark.
We recommend that other companies develop their own unique Trademarks and place them in the upper
left corner of their published Limited Edition web pages for the coral products they develop. This
will help inform customers about which company is offering a specific product.
