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 [...]
ORA Tiger Goby (Elacatinus macrodon) Great for Pico Aquariums
Seeing as how I’ve been mulling over the idea of starting up one (or several) small aquariums to spruce up the house and office, I’ve been really giving a lot of thought as to what the potential livestock for the tanks would be and keeping en eye our for nano-friendly fish during my random fish [...]
LiveAquaria Fills Diver’s Den with McCulloch’s Clownfish
Yesterday we found out from ORA that they had successfully raised captive-bred McCulloch’s Clownfish from eggs sent to them by Kevin Kohen and the crew at LiveAquaria. Well, later that same evening, the Diver’s Den section got a taste of these captive-bred beauties, with four different juveniles becoming available to impatiently awaiting hobbyists. At $400 [...]
ORA Raising McCulloch’s Clownfish
The marine ornamental aquaculture geniuses at ORA are at it again, with the latest offering of aquacultured clownfish species being the gorgeous ORA McCulloch’s Clownfish (Amphiprion mccullochi). But their success with this new species is quite a bit different than what they’re used to, as the clownfish presented several challenges. According to ORA, when the [...]
Picture of the Week, ORA Sprung’s Stunner
Pictured in the latest installment of the AquaNerd Picture of the Week is a glowing ORA Sprung’s Stunner seen in a gorgeous Kessil powered nano aquarium at Fish Gallery. This piece is a relatively new addition to ORA’s growing lineup of aquacultured corals and takes its name from Two Little Fishies owner Julian Sprung. Julian [...]
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 [...]
Picture of the Week – 9/12 – 9/18
We are still in recuperation mode from the long MACNA weekend, but for this week’s AquaNerd Picture of the Week we though it would only be fitting that it came from the event. We didn’t focus too much on livestock during the conference since the logistics of fish and coral transport is never fun, but [...]
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’s New Black Snowflake Clownfish
ORA announced their latest marvel of clownfish breeding on their blog yesterday, the ORA Black Snowflake Clownfish. Ever since the Picasso and Snowflake clowns first arrived on the scene years ago, we’ve been clamoring for a black clownfish with similar patterns, especially since ORA was already breeding black and white Ocellaris clowns. But it hasn’t [...]
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