Tidal Gardens' visit to Cherry Corals!

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4 жыл бұрын

A little while back I visited my college friends in Grand Rapids, Michigan and on the way back made it a little bit of a work trip by visiting Cherry Corals. Cherry Corals is one of the best online coral sellers as well as an active participant in the frag swap circuit so if you have attended a local trade show in the past several years, you may have seen their booth. I’ve known the guys at Cherry for well over ten years but this is my first ever visit to their coral farm. Let’s take a look!
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@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

I’ve known the guys at Cherry for well over ten years but this is my first ever visit to their coral farm. What do you guys think of their operation?

@reggie8566 4 жыл бұрын

Your videos are like art

@SuperMkl2010 4 жыл бұрын

Tidal Gardens wow! They are soo beautiful corals, thank you for the video.

@harkinsaquatics 4 жыл бұрын

I have to agree about the coral diting and QT tanks. I never had seen it in any other shop then ours but we do it a long term investment due to our insurance plan.

@northeastcorals 4 жыл бұрын

Superb video, I'd love to seem more like this showing commercial facilities & how they run :)

@raphaelsimon1847 3 жыл бұрын

Pro tip: you can watch series on Kaldrostream. Me and my gf have been using them for watching lots of of movies lately.

@davestokes6093 7 ай бұрын

Cherry Coral is an absolute power house !! 80% of my coral is from CC it helps that live 4 miles from their farm. I never have any issues with pests and everything I have purchased grows like crazy. Todd and Bret are both great guys who share a passion for farming coral. True Gem!!

@patytrico 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful tour and informative! Thank you for share :)

@RogueAquariums 4 жыл бұрын

Great tour Than of their coral farm. CC has a great array of beautiful corals A+

@YouCanCallMeButter 4 жыл бұрын

Todd is fantastic! He takes great pride in caring for and providing stellar corals. Service is also top notch. Been ordering from them since 2015. They are one of my most favorite vendors.

@gardenextra7415 4 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed seeing another Coral Farm and as always your knowledge and filming experience is appreciated.

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@eddiediederich7244 4 жыл бұрын

Todd is awesome. I was able to scoop up a bounce mushroom from his personal collection. Its a great piece and came well packaged without any pests what-so-ever.

@Utahmikew 4 жыл бұрын

Cant wait for the next update of your new building. Please soon!

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

I will do an update when a little more work gets done. It is so hard to get contractors to show up it's not even funny.

@jefferygarcia3993 4 жыл бұрын

I bought my Bowser zoas from them in one of the local swaps, I always look forward to them when I make it to a local swap. I am also from the GR area, nice seeing you visiting west Michigan.

@bluerider0988 2 жыл бұрын

Love these guys. I try to go there and every 3 months or so. I highly recommend. They also show real pictures on thier website. The corals actually look even better in person.

@Ellery-USA 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely Todd has some awesome stuff. I usually see him at the Rochester and Buffalo Frag swaps or get stuff via a LFS my buddy owns.

@louaibandr7570 4 жыл бұрын

I live 30 minutes away from cherry corals never been there but now will definetely be going there :) Hope to see u next time.

@marcussreef 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice. I have seen a lot of hybrid lighting setups now and will definitely be going with a led t5 hybrid setup on my next build. I also liked the extra chamber for easy detritus removal. Another nice video Than.

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

T5/LED hybrids are great, especially with the newer LED's that are improving all the time.

@ryanreeves8931 4 жыл бұрын

Great video!

@xballer1989 3 жыл бұрын

I live about 2 miles away from them. I've been bummed because I figured with the covid situation they wouldn't be open to a tour. Now I find this and it helps alleviate the hurt.

@volteface69 4 жыл бұрын

Parfait et merci !!!

@Waynerock77 4 жыл бұрын

Ok ok don’t twist my arm I gotta buy something from them now. I can’t forget my loyalty for TG though so I gotta buy something from you too. Ugh my wife is gonna make me test the couch overnight again.😂

@JCarey 4 жыл бұрын

I love it 🤩✌🏽

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

Cherry Corals does a really good job.

@lisafoster4468 Жыл бұрын

My first live sale (and coral purchases) ever were from Cherry Corals. Had a fantastic time, and I was delighted with what i got. I hope they're still farming those bright pink gonis with short orange polyps - I'd love to get a new one, now that I'm starting over.

@JCTReefer 4 жыл бұрын

To a place that’s taken many paychecks.🤣 Quality stuff for sure! Nice video!!!

@warzoneearth1 4 жыл бұрын

Fresh Cherries .....nice

@ArrickthaRed 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. I really like Cherry Corals. They come to our local frag swaps all the time and I get something from them all the time since I know the corals are healthy. They really care about the hobby and their customers. I actually bought a hallucination paly at a swap for $200 from them and every time I see those guys they ask me how it is and offer to buy some back from me. I have 12 polyps now so maybe.

@ricosaquariums7992 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome video👊👍

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@InsideThePoster 2 жыл бұрын

I got a tour a couple of weeks ago from Brent/Brett ( I cant remember haaha). It's incredible in person and so clean and their attention to detail sets them apart.

@BahamaLlamaCoral 4 жыл бұрын

This was great to see! Cherry Corals was where I purchased my very first pieces from. I blame Todd for the addiction...😂

@BahamaLlamaCoral 4 жыл бұрын

I WANT MORE!! You gotta go back!

@brianculater6444 4 жыл бұрын

Bahama Llama Coral Hello Bahama Liama 😁 This is one of my favorite coral vendors! It’s good to see someone else has the addiction from Todd LOL

@BahamaLlamaCoral 4 жыл бұрын

@@brianculater6444 Sometimes when I know they are coming to a local frag swap I just pre-order a bunch of frags. Skip the shipping!

@brianculater6444 4 жыл бұрын

Bahama Llama Coral NICE!! Being from Wisconsin I only pay $20.00 for shipping but yeah we don’t have any coral frag swaps around upper Wisconsin sadly or I would do the same as you.

@BahamaLlamaCoral 4 жыл бұрын

@@brianculater6444 $20 is a steal for shipping!

@harkinsaquatics 4 жыл бұрын

Really neat place. I will definitely have to check them out for some other great aquacultured corals.

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

It's worth a visit. Hopefully you can make another trip to the midwest when we are up and running here.

@harkinsaquatics 4 жыл бұрын

@@tidalgardens you can bet I'll be coming back when your up and running.

@BlueCarbonReefing 4 жыл бұрын

This is the closest salt water store to me. Todd knows his stuff and the selection they have is top notch! Great video Than!

@Speed-ku6jx 4 жыл бұрын

Blue Carbon Reefing do they have a retail space or do they just let you pick from the big tanks seen in this video? Never been to a coral farm but I live in Oakland county and would like to make a trip down to this place soon.

@BlueCarbonReefing 4 жыл бұрын

@@Speed-ku6jx no retail space. They arent opened for normal business hours so if you want to make the trip I would suggest reaching out to Todd on Instagram or Facebook and setting up an appointment . You get to pick out corals directly out of these tanks you see in the video. Good luck!

@Speed-ku6jx 4 жыл бұрын

Blue Carbon Reefing gotcha so it’s normally online only shopping then. I’ll try and get in touch and see about a visit. Thank you.

@BlueCarbonReefing 4 жыл бұрын

@@Speed-ku6jx you're welcome!

@mr.reeftank1456 4 жыл бұрын

Would hace loved to hear about what they feed and more on the maintenance side of things.....

@Retro.one4 4 жыл бұрын

I just found them last week on my local google maps. How cool to see there corals and care can't wait to order from them!

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

If you are local it is worth a visit.

@brianculater6444 4 жыл бұрын

Charles Givens I just ordered 5 corals from Cherry Corals. They arrived in perfect health and opened minutes after adding them to my quarantine tank and they will be going into my display tank shortly! I highly recommend Cherry Corals you won’t be disappointed!!! 👍👍👍😎

@SpaghettiKillah 4 жыл бұрын

1:44 There should be a *warning* of incoming dead-man arm 🤣🤣 Joking aside...they sure have some stunners though 😳

@Cavegeckosol 4 жыл бұрын

Very clean and orderly systems. I won't lie. I would test some things every day if I had the money for the test reagents.

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

There are some new products that monitor chemistry several times a day. The per-day cost of testing is less expensive than single use test kits. I am thinking of trying them out in the future.

@MrPrentissDJones 4 жыл бұрын

I like 💕 this video more captive bred corals please

@majorjoey 4 жыл бұрын

what are the make of the Fiberglass tanks? link? also I noted lots of corals that were no longer frags and seemed more like colonies , can you elaborate on what happens to the colonies? are the fragged? or sold as colonies ? thanks nice video

@TacosGaming 3 жыл бұрын

Come back to Michigan

@andrewc3634 4 жыл бұрын

So I’m extremely new into the hobby and had no idea I had 2 great places to buy coral within a couple hours of Toledo.

@skzion2 4 жыл бұрын

Very interesting. I checked their web site and didn't see anything about Radions...

@bold3118 4 жыл бұрын

As i build my system and think about a dream tank, i have wondered why “settling tanks” aren’t used more often. Surely not everyone has enough space for one. They just seem to make sense.

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

Some reef aquarists dedicate a small portion of their sump to settle out detritus. The ones in this video are gigantic. They measure something like 48" x 48" x 36" each (if I had to guess).

@danosnanos1817 4 жыл бұрын

I love your field trips. Which t5 bulbs where they using? On the lps softie?

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

I didn't ask, but based on the color it looked like ATI Blue +

@danosnanos1817 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I use t5 actinic and reefbrite lumilites now. Building a 2x lowboy lps grow system, deciding on lights. Lumilites for sure. Blue+ most others, actinic Jason Fox, guess either will work. Gotta love t5

@jwlee1059 4 жыл бұрын

Newbie question, what is the difference between an anemone and say a torch coral? They seem the same. Cherry seems like they carry nice corals but are out of stock on a lot. That could be a good sign.....love the fact they quarantine.

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

A torch coral is a stony coral with a calcium carbonate base. An anemone is a very different animal that isn't really a coral at all. It doesn't have a skeleton and can freely move around the aquarium.

@brianculater6444 4 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah I love cherry corals, no offense Than but not only do they have beautiful healthy corals but I only pay $20 for shipping to Wisconsin!! 👍👍👍👍😎😎

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

whisper (it's built into the price) ... that's the big joke when it comes to shipping. It is really expensive until you are spending about a million dollars a year in shipping fees at which point it is just kinda expensive.

@brianculater6444 4 жыл бұрын

Tidal Gardens I totally understand, even though I’ll pay for it I will be ordering from you! Gotta have some Tidal Gardens love in my reef 👍😎

@cathyhaz 4 жыл бұрын

Than, I so need help. I've had a torch for over a year. I added an icecap gyre and noticed it started receding. I moved it and it's lost two heads. I've fed it coral frenzy pellets 1x per week until now. I can barely see its mouth. cal-660 dkh-9 Phos-2 and nitrates 10ppm. I use IO reef crystals and dose Red Sea part A&B reef nutrition. Is there anything else I can do? Thank you for any thoughts you can provide to.help save this last head.

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

Hard to say. Sometimes they come down with an infection where it loses a head or two. Might consider an iodine solution bath for a couple minutes if that is the case. Also keep an eye out for pests and tankmates possibly harassing it.

@cathyhaz 4 жыл бұрын

@@tidalgardens Will do! Thank you so much for your advice and time!

@tstanley01 3 жыл бұрын

It is an interesting contrast...your setup looks like a museum, theirs looks like a bait shop...however, you both seem to be getting the results they are wanting...my question is, knowing how they are getting results with their systems, from a business POV, how do you justify the extra cost of the premium glass tanks, etc?

@tidalgardens 3 жыл бұрын

Observation goes a long way. It only takes one coral with a major pest or disease to go undetected to put an entire system at risk.

@stefantoney1007 4 жыл бұрын

What is that in the basket during the credits? Is it an anemone?

@josephwhitt4719 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could work here they are 8 minutes from my house

@dougcondie2364 4 жыл бұрын

Was that an aiptasia at 8:23 lol

@ryannorman7703 4 жыл бұрын

I'm from GR... what college did you go to?!

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

University of Michigan

@ryannorman7703 4 жыл бұрын

@@tidalgardens Ahh... you mentioned you had friends from college in Grand Rapids, thought I'd ask. :)

@SomeJustice19k 4 жыл бұрын

Why do a lot of the coral look like they're 'melting' (don't know what else to call it)?

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

It is growth extending out on the plate.

@jordanlevine9338 5 ай бұрын

My tank is 75% tidal gardens coral and 25% cherry corals

@worldsunderwater7308 4 жыл бұрын

Nice setup! I see an aiptasia at 8:20 though, lol

@dangappa 4 жыл бұрын

The only other coral farm I've seen is WWC, so I guess I'm spoiled...

@tidalgardens 4 жыл бұрын

I have yet to see their place, but I would like to at some point. I haven't been to Florida since LeBron left CLE the first time.

@dangappa 4 жыл бұрын

@@tidalgardens We saw it Saturday at MACNA. Watched Julian Sprung drop his phone in one of the tanks.🤣 They are set up similar to Cherry corals there. They are bigger though and are soon expanding to more than 3X the size they are now!