ORA Adds Montipora confusa to Their Ever Growing List
Oceans, Reefs and Aquariums is adding another notch to their bedpost, err aquarium stand, with the release of their latest coral, the ORA Confusa. Not to be confused with the Montipora spongodes, a coral that ORA has been circulating through the hobby for quite a while now, this new monti sports a deep green base [...]
EcoTech Marine Supports the Coral Restoration Foundation
Here’s a little distraction from your Sunday night football games. Coral restoration and conservation is a huge passion of ours, and should be of every saltwater aquarium keeper, so it should come as no surprise that we’re plugging the Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF). In the video above, the guys at EcoTech Marine are also joining [...]
Picture of the Week, Orange Montipora on Frag Plug
We typically like to focus on rare and beautiful aquarium livestock when we post the AquaNerd Picture of the Week, but this time we wanted to do something just a little different. The focus of this week’s photo is an orange Montipora coral that obviously started out as a small frag and has since grown [...]
EcoTech Marine’s Coral Glue Does the Trick
We recently received a sample bottle of the fairly new Coral Glue from EcoTech Marine’s Elements line, so we decided to take it for a spin and cut up some corals. The bottle we got was a 30ml sample, a good size for the casual fragging hobbyist in my opinion and one that should be [...]
ORA’s Latest Offering the Grube’s Gorgonian
ORA is set to release another aquacultured coral onto the aquarium market. Called the Grube’s Gorgonian, this isn’t the most colorful offering from ORA, but it is certainly one with some of the longest history. Originally collected in the Philippines way back in 1990, this octocoral spread all over Europe and eventually landed in the [...]
Picture of the Week – 9/26 – 10/2
Pictured in this week’s installment of the AquaNerd Picture of the Week is an ORA Blue Cespitularia coral seen in the circular Zero Edge aquarium at MACNA. This gorgeous soft coral isn’t a recent addition to ORA’s lineup by any means, but it’s still one we see very little of at the local aquarium stores [...]
Hobbyist Booths Available at Reef-A-Palooza
Aquarium events are all the rage, and the Reef-A-Palooza event sponsored by the Southern California Marine Aquarium Society (SCMAS) is one of the larger ones to takes place each and every year. Despite all of the vendors clamoring for booth space, the event organizers are still keeping the show true to the aquarium hobby by [...]
Close-up Video of Pocillopora damicornis Larvae
Coral Publications recently shared this great up close video of the larvae of a Pocillopora damicornis coral swimming around in a small dish a few hours after sunset in one of two in an experimental coral nurseries. The larvae, which look more like a pest flatworm than the offspring of a coral, is released by the [...]
Growth Sequence of the ORA Red Planet Acro
Ever wonder what a full grown ORA frag would look like? Well, ORA released a series of growth shots on their blog yesterday detailing the plating growth that their Red Planet Acro takes on as it matures. ORA first acquired this coral in May of 2006, with the first photograph below being from September of [...]
ORA Kelly Green Psammocora Seen Locally
Only a couple of days ago, ORA revealed their latest coral, the vibrantly colored Kelly Green Psammocora. While most of their corals usually take a couple of weeks to trickle onto the local scene, this one showed up only days after it became available in the aquarium trade and it is likely one of the [...]
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