Darren Wordley

Founder of Reefphyto | Marine Live Food Specialist

Reef Aquarium Nutrition
Live Phytoplankton Culturing
Copepod & Rotifer Culture
Mandarin Dragonet Feeding
Reef Tank Ecosystem Stability
Coral Feeding Strategies
Zooplankton & Microfauna
Marine Aquaculture Techniques
Sustainable Reefkeeping
Beginner to Advanced Reef Care

Darren Wordley is the founder of Reefphyto and has spent 16 years doing one thing: making professional-grade live marine nutrition accessible to reef keepers who refuse to settle for second best.

He started Reefphyto in 2008 after watching the UK reef-keeping community struggle with the same problem — fish and corals declining not from poor husbandry, but from a nutritional gap that dried and frozen food was never designed to fill. He had the expertise. He had the facility in Wales. He built the solution.

Today Darren writes, advises, and answers questions personally — because he believes the guidance is as important as the product. Whether you're establishing a refugium for a mandarin dragonet or building a complete live food system from scratch, his articles are written from real experience, for reef keepers who want their tanks to truly thrive.