As an aquaculture company, Coralaxy has specialized in the farming of corals, plankton and other marine invertebrates. In cooperation with selected wholesalers, we are also bringing more and more captive-bred fish to the market. Our own tested and valued accessories round off our product range.
Coralaxy – that’s us
We do not want to instruct you, nor do we want to demand that you stock your aquarium exclusively with captive-bred fish and farmed corals. We are well aware that stocking a reef aquarium exclusively with aquacultured specimen is currently still difficult and that they are not always available. Nevertheless, we would like to encourage you to critically question the origin of your animals and, where possible, to use aquacultured reef inhabitants.
Lukas, Jo, Johannes, Diane & Norman
With Coralaxy, we want to contribute to make the reef hobby more sustainable and transparent for private reefers. Our goal is to increase the availability, acceptance and aquaculture of marine ornamental species in Germany and Europe and to continuously expand the range of it for marine aquariums.
Coralaxy GmbH was founded in 2018 by Jo and Diane in Rostock, Germany. We planned the facility by ourselves and built it within a year. The online shop was created at the same time. In August 2019 we started with the first sales to private reef tank owners.
Coral Farm with separate quarantine area
The basic structure of the system can be divided into 3 areas; (1) the quarantine area, (2) the coral farming facilities and (3) the fish keeping. The total volume is around 20,000 liters, which is distributed over 7 recirculation systems. The filter units were developed in cooperation with the company AquaCare & Co. KG and differ in their equipment between the coral systems (e.g. more filter columns) and fish systems (e.g. UV system).
The coral farm tanks and fish keeping are distributed across a total of 4 recirculation systems, each with a volume of 2500 to 4500 liters. For the lighting and flow of the coral systems, we chose products from EcoTech Marine. The lights and pumps are adjusted according to the specific requirements of the corals in each tank.
In 2021, we expanded from 100 m² to around 200 m². The adjacent additional hall was used primarily for the expansion of the shipping area, a warehouse, workshop and office. In the meantime, we also held a factory outlet here for aquarists from the region. In addition, the first plankton culturing tanks were started and photo and work tanks were set up.
In 2024, we expanded the facility area again to include an additional cultivation room of around 40 m². The space is intended exclusively for the cultivation of plankton, shrimp, snails, sea urchins and macroalgae and is currently in progress.
Today, we not only supply private saltwater aquarists, but also institutes, universities, public aquariums as well as specialist and wholesalers throughout Europe. If you are interested in our B2B conditions, send us an email to info@coralaxy.de
The Coralaxy Team
