Welcome to Oceanarium, suppliers of live marine aquarium specimens for Australian customers.

Our mission statement;

Our mission statement is to supply you with environmentally friendly choices of quality specimens you can confidently order over the internet knowing they will arrive in a healthy condition. 

The new web site;

The purpose of our all new web site is to make a new beginning ....

Our history to date has been primarily collecting and marketing of marine specimens from wild reefs mainly sourced from within the Dampier Archipelago in northern Western Australia. We have seen considerable changes in the marine environment of the Archipelago with many events leading to a continual decline in the marine habitat of the area.

• Cyclones and excessive fresh water and sediment run off.

• Port expansions with the mining, oil and gas boom of the Pilbara  create a continuation of dredging and laying of pipe lines with constant plumes of sediments.

•  The dreaded coral bleaching events that are becoming more severe and frequent, some years having now claimed up to 80% of the remaining corals.

• Under these strains the coral reefs of the Dampier archipelago now seem stressed and susceptible to predators and disease.

• We have seen significant numbers of coralivours in areas causing localized depletion of corals.

• We have also discovered coral disease in areas we have always collected in yet never seen these diseases there before.

With a continual increasing demand from our hobby for more and more product, it became apparent to us it was time to change our methodology. We decided to direct our efforts towards providing more sustainable options and start up a aquaculture farm specifically for the aquarium hobby.

Our time in the industry as wild collect fishers has positioned us with the knowledge and infrastructure to take this step and join the small but growing number of businesses who have already begun to supply animals not collected from the wild.

Aquaculture is not yet able to replace the wild collect fishery so wild collections will remain the principle supply for specimens in our hobby.

The wild collect fisheries of Australia are considered some of the best managed in the world. We ourselves still hold a wild collect license, though now we have positioned ourselves with our aquaculture farm to be able to use it more sparingly. We will only now collect wild specimens on occasional trips while we look for interesting new additions to our coral farm. Our main focus will be producing 100% cultured supplies.

We ask you to consider before you buy to to give priority not only our own cultured options, but to support any venture offering better environmental choices. As demand for these type of products continues to grow, the industry trends will encourage other businesses to also move in this direction.

About our aquaculture farm;

Our Aquaculture farm is about one hour north of Perth on 30 acres zoned "rural conservation" for the protection of old growth Tuart trees. There are over 100 on the farm, some with a girth of 10 meters. The aquaculture site on the farm is in a open paddock so we have plenty of room to expand further with time without having to clear any trees.

Part of our environmental plan has  already included planting 100's more native trees and Tuart's to help offset our carbon foot print. We will be continuing to plant many more trees in tree belts to creating buffer zones from possible agricultural spays drifting in from surrounding farms.

Our first culture room has 200mm thick insulation to save power on heating and cooling. We are also running energy efficient LED lighting. We will be adding a large solar power generation capacity with a goal of ultimately achieving carbon neutrality of our cultured products.

We are doing a lot of the construction work ourselves so have have stopped the sales of marines while the build happens and while we wait for all the final approvals to be granted that will allow us to become "licenced"

We will not be selling wild collected corals simply cut into smaller pieces like a "chop shop". All our aquacultured corals will have no tissue originating from wild reefs. The mother donor colonies will be maintained here, they are truly of a cultured origin.

Our corals and invertebrates are selected to be suitable for and grown in recirculation systems and finished under standard aquarium hobbyist style lighting. We expect hobbyists will enjoy a higher degree of success with them than wild collected or ocean grown alternatives.

We will keep updating the farms' progress on the news page. We look forward to doing business with you all again soon and thank you for your patience.