ORA announced today that upon DNA testing, it has been confirmed that the fish they have been selling as the Australian Amphiprion rubrocinctus is in fact the Fijian species Amphiprion barberi.  How did this happen? In short, it happened because years back, when the all-red clownfish from Fiji was brought into the trade as “Amphiprion rubrocinctus“, Read More

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Imagine that we didn’t live in a world with designer clownfish, no platinums, no perculas and no snowflakes either. If we lived in that world and you happened to see this pair of Picasso percula clownfish in the offices of LiveAquaria you would be absolutely flabbergasted. Since we do live in a world with myriad forms of many Read More

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The DaVinci clownfish is a newly announced strain of Amphiprion ocellaris from Sea & Reef Aquaculture. Sometimes Sea & Reef is dropping names for clownfish strains that have been produced for years, even if their operation “refined” them, but the DaVinci clownish is something unique, even if it isn’t unknown. We’ve never been particularly fond of the Picasso Snowflake Read More

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We all know ORA as a the most prolific inland marine life producer, breeding, growing and generally culturing all manner of reef fish, corals and invertebrates. Oceans, Reefs and Aquariums masters the breeding of new species so regularly that we almost take for granted how much marine life they actually breed. But do you know Read More

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The White Horse Saddle Clownfish is a new strain of saddle back clownfish which is the latest species of Amphiprion to sport the nearly all white body mutation. Coming from Thailand, the White Horse Saddle Clownfish was first produced by a pair of Amphiprion polymnus in the care of Ekkachai Hengarnglai (Jay) owner of Worldwidereef aquarium Read More

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The Phantom Tomato Clownfish is an unusual specimen of Amphiprion frenatus which was recently collected in teh Philippines by RVS Fishworld. Much like the “Gladiator” ocellaris clownfish, the unusual tomato clownfish features an unusual pattern where its single head bar is morphed into some kind of headgear marking in the anterior portion of the body. Read More

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The Phantom Clownfish is a new strain of Amphiprion ocellaris from Sea & Reef Aquaculture, with a unique pattern of dark black and bright white. The Phantom Clownfish is the offspring of Premium Snowflake Ocellaris Clownfish, Black Ice Clownfish and super black Darwin Ocellaris Clownfish creating a gorgeous balance of obsidian black and snow white markings. It’s really Read More

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It’s been a long time since we heard anything about the production of the Wyoming White clownfish and with the closing of C-Quest and unfortunate passing of Bill Addisson, it seemed like the strain might die out. The Maine Blizzard is another strain of clownfish which doesn’t get that much attention and even though ORA’s Read More

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The albino clownfish which were discovered in a clutch of black ocellaris clownfish may not be as light and ghostly as a typical pink and white albino fish, but those red eyes are definitely not standard issue on a clownfish. The unusual albino-like clownfish were discovered by Tom Lamb of Cultured Critters in a batch Read More

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The Orange Skunk Clown is very ubiquitous in the trade but word has it that there exist a variation of sorts with a pretty little “cap”. Terry from iBlueWater has recently obtained one such specimen after almost a decade of hearsay of this elusive clownfish. The white cap skunk clown was thought to be a Read More

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