A hand-poured blend of aragonite grains and crushed coral designed for optimal coral encrustation, long-term reef stability, easy rack-to-display transfer, and a beautifully organic appearance.
With countless choices available today, choosing the right frag plug for your coral can be a daunting task. It feels like every option offers advantages in one category while sacrificing strengths in another. Whether it's the rate of encrustation, the consistency of stem breaks, or the simple look of it in your aquarium, they each have drawbacks.
But not anymore—introducing Reef PlugsTM by Artisan Frag Plugs, the first calcium-based frag plugs designed for healthy coral growth, a natural appearance, and easy tray-to-display transfer. Every step from initial attachment to final placement is simple, consistent, and designed around your coral's happiness.
Stop making choices with your frag plugs. Get it all with Artisan Frag Plugs.
These organic reef products aren't just lumps of aragonite. Each piece is a product of thoughtful prototyping, careful engineering, intentional mixing, methodical pouring, consistent curing, and uncompromised reef safety processing.
Artisan Frag Plugs aren't the cheapest frag plugs, they're the best. The formula used in our substrate is designed around coral health, and the shape of the plug is designed for use in any setting.
Whether you're propagating a small farm or curating the perfect display reef, your coral will thank you.
The process starts with a methodical pour focused on structural integrity at the base and organic surfaces on top.
The cure phase solidifies chemical matrices and allows the plugs to achieve their peak hardness.
The soak is the most important step for ensuring plugs are reef-safe and ready for use in a live ecosystem.
Artisan Frag Plugs set off on a mission to create plugs designed around healthy coral growth that facilitate easy transfer from frag trays to display tanks while preserving the natural, organic look of reef environments.
By studying the minerals that cultivate thriving corals and the factors that affect their growth, we developed a recipe based in natural ingredients that produces a real "reef rock" appearance, without sacrificng the convenience of the plug base.
As with many other plugs, simple bone cutters can be used to remove the plug base if desired, making these plugs the ultimate hybrid between intentional design and natural aesthetics.
