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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A funny thing happened while we were in Florida last week. In addition to making it a point to visit a very special pair of fish (more on those later), we also made our inaugural tour of ORA’s impressive aquaculture facility. Seeing ORA after a decade of wanting to go there was quite a treat, Read More

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Clownfish are much loved in the aquarium hobby, and are probably some of the most iconic and most recognizable and quirky reef fish in popular culture. This is primarily because of their text book mutulaistic relationship with anemones, the anemone provides protection and in return the  clownfish keep away any intruders. However, it now turns 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 Galaxy Clarki clownfish is an exciting new strain of the ever popular Clark’s clownfish, Amphiprion sebae. Having already developed strains of Picasso Clarki and Picasso Sebae clownfish, Bali Aquarich is developing the Galaxy Clarki clownfish into an evolution of the latter strain with even more exxagerated striping, a higher coverage of white and probably Read More

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When we think of hybrids we imagine extremely rare one-off specimens of an unlikely cross between two closely related species from the same genus. In most of theses cases the parents are pretty similar looking but this recently collected hybrid clownfish is a rare cross between a tomato clownfish Amphiprion frenatus and a maroon clownfish, Premnas 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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Swimmers in Australia were victims of a cruel prank made by area coral. As beachgoers were enjoying the water and beach, things turned to a panic as reports of a chemical spill came in due to a strange, unknown substance in the water. After the swimmers were rescued, it was discovered that the substance in Read More

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