Chicago Corals
Huge Selection of Healthy, Clean, and Vibrant Chicago Corals at Your Fingertips
Chicagoans are a tough and discriminating bunch when it comes to food, culture, professional sports, and even aquatic invertebrates. Fans of Chicago corals have lots of local brick and mortar stores, which offer corals for sale in Chicagoland but most of these stores lack the knowledgeable staff, selection, impeccable water quality, and other important factors that they expect from a Chicago coral retailer. That is why many folks living in and around the Chicago area are buying coral colonies and frags from CoralFrags.com. Unlike traditional mom-and-pop retailers, our Chicago coral store never closes and our wide selection of corals, anemones and other inverts can be viewed 24 hours a day from the comfort and convenience of our client’s homes.
Who We Are
We are a small staff of professional aquarists who love corals and coral frags as much as our clients do and have quickly built a reputation for a huge selection of online corals, healthy, clean frags, and outstanding customer service. After keeping freshwater and marine fish and invertebrates for years as hobbyists, we decided to build on our expertise by pursuing and earning degrees in Aquarium Science and Aquaculture. While earning our degrees, we worked in many different types of facilities, including public aquaria, world-renowned marine research labs, and several different types of aquaculture facilities.
Working in these professional environments allowed us to better understand the many facets of aquatic animal husbandry in much greater depth. We took this knowledge and experience to design and build a coral propagation facility optimized to produce healthy, stunning corals and coral frags, and our business was born. We love what we do and believe our Chicago coral buyers recognize how that manifests itself in everything we do.
What You Can Expect From Us
- Quality Corals and Online Coral Frags – Our commitment to clean and healthy coral frags begins with our stringent quarantine protocols. We understand very well how coral pests can quickly spread in a system and before any new arrivals are acclimated to one of our quarantine systems, they are carefully and repeatedly screened for any unwanted hitchhikers. After quarantine, they are all inspected again before moving on to our propagation systems. We don’t want coral pests in any of our systems and we most definitely don’t want them in our clients’ systems. If there’s anything we don’t like about a frag or colony, we don’t pack it or ship it. It’s that simple and we believe that this attention to detail has been and continues to be key to our success and our client’s satisfaction.
- Fast Shipping – Once an order comes in, we look at a number of things before it gets packed, including the weather forecast of the client’s area, any potential delays in shipping, and any other factors that might impact the timely delivery of the order to your door. We ship orders quickly but if it’s in the client’s (and the coral’s) best interest to wait an extra day to minimize travel time, we’ll take it to help ensure that each coral frag arrives in optimal condition.
- Reliable and Continually Updated Information – We take a great deal of pride in setting our clients up for success when they buy our online coral frags and continually update our site with new information about all aspects of aquatic animal care. This is central to our business model and philosophy as longtime coralheads. If you’re setting up your first coral reef display or your 31st, we want to make sure that you have everything you need to be successful and love this hobby as much as we have for years. If you have a question about coral husbandry that is not currently answered by an article on our site, let us know and we’ll get right on it!
Coral Frags We Offer
- Acanthastrea spp.
- Acropora spp.
- Alveopora spp.
- Blastomussa spp.
- Fungia spp.
- Platygyra spp.
- Scolymia spp.
- Zoanthus spp.
- And many others. Check our site often for newly listed coral and coral frags online.