Jim Stime and his Entertaining Reef Reality Television Videos !
Eddie Hansen visits the Reeffarmers booth at the 2008 BA-CFM event !
Reeffarmers - This web site is the main distribution site for captive farmed
corals from the farming business Reeffarmers (owned and operated by Steve Tyree).
Steve has been farming and distributing captive stony corals since 1993. Back then, the
captive maintainance of reef building stony corals was still considered impossible by many.
Today there are literally thousands of reef aquarist around the world that are not only
maintaining these corals, but they are successfully farming them. Over the years Steve has
managed to acquire a large collection of rare and exotic corals. To this day Steve continues
to search the U.S. for captive corals that he considers rare and exotic. Reeffarmers main
product lines include: Limited Editions, Farmed Sponge Packs and Farmed Corals. All of our
product lines, except the sponge packs, are currently distributed through the Buy It Now
web page. We still honor if possible previous coral reservations made on our old reservation
system. We never collected any deposits or down payments for any of the previous reservations.
Limited Editions - These corals form the main business within Reeffarmers.
Limited Edition (LE) corals are rare and exotic corals that Steve has collected over the
years and continues to collect to this very day. In the past demand for these corals was
very strong. Strong demand can actually cause problems for farmers. Over harvesting was
a consistant problem with early exotic coral farming enterprises. To better match distribution
(harvesting rates) with customer demand, Reeffarmers had implemented a harvesting reservation
system. The rate of harvest was based on the growth rate of the farmed coral. We have however
decided in July of 2010 to discontinue the reservation process for new corals. This is
primarly a recognition of the current state of the US economy and its future short term
prospects. In these economic conditions, it is very difficult to have reservations that are
a few years into the future become realized as valid orders. This is because many people are
experiencing work and resident displacements and changes. We will keep records of the old
reservations on the corals LE web page. We will also continue to create LE web pages for
new LE corals. The only change is that we wont take reservations. Right now we intend to
release each First Edition LE through a silent controlled auction. That auction will be
conducted safely with no financial information being transferred though the internet. Each
auction bidder will have their bid and full name displayed so independent confirmation of
the actual auction process can be conducted. We intend to sell additional captive grown
fragments of the LE corals through either our Buy It Now page or through additional silent
auctions. Since we no longer have to setup reservations records for new corals, we will be
able to release new LE corals one at a time whenever they are ready. Please note -
we are not trademarking the use of the term 'Limited Edition' with respect to harvested coral
fragments. Reeffarmers was the first to use the term with respect to corals and we believe it
should now be considered a common usage term within the captive coral industry.
Auctioned Editions - Please note - We will be incorporating all of our old Auctioned
Edition corals into the Limited Edition product line. We do not like performing live web
auctions any more due to bad experiences in the past. We will still do Silent Auctions run
manually from this web site for First Editions.
Farmed Sponge - Reeffarmers utilizes natural filtration systems based on Steve Tyree's
Zonal Filtration Methodologies. We currently do not have any protein skimmers on any of our 4
farming reef systems. These methods primarily rely on crytpic sponges, but can also utilize
sea squirts and bi-valves. Steve Tyree harvests excess cryptic organisms growth and
distributes these organisms via Reeffarmers on the Farmed Sponge page.
