ORA’s new Green Planet acro is the latest new stony coral release from Oceans Reef & Aquariums which is grown out at their Florida facility. Bearing much resemblance to the famous ORA Red Planet table acro, the green planet is a near perfect emerald counterpart with similar growth shape, growth rate and appearance of the Read More

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Acropora insignis is an interesting staghorn Acro which was one of the must-have stony corals back in the day when the selection was much more limited. Acro Insignis has been obscured by more showy species in the recent past but ORA has an interesting strain which they are now bringing to the masses. The Ant Insignis Read More

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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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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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ORA’s announcement of their Black Cardinfalfish may make 2013 the year of the Cardinalfish.  Banggai Rescue is slated to be published, David Watson is presenting “Cardinalfish breeding beyond the Banggai” at the 2013 Marine Breeder’s Workshop, and twice this month we’ve running stories about new commercial production of non-Banggai Cardinalfish. These species are much more Read More

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ORA is a name any aquarist is familiar with, their captive bred fish, especially weird clownfish morphs capturing the heart of many. Not to mention their frags were the first to serve as an example of how healthy encrusted frags should look like. It should thus be obvious how excited we are that some of 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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ORA’s newest release – the Blackmargin or Horseshoe-Tailed Dottyback, Pseudochromis tapeinosoma – The fish shown here is a male (females/juveniles are gray with a yellow tail).  Image courtesy ORA Time to call in a favor from your LFS and hope they have an ‘in’ with ORA.  ”Another ORA first, the Black Margin Dottyback. We have Read More

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Randall’s Assessor has only been available in the U.S. in limited numbers and sporadic shipments for what seems like barely a  year but ORA is already on the ball with another first. Since they already held the title for first to breed the yellow assessor and Macneill’s assessor on a commercial basis, it would only Read More

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The hybrid cleaner goby is a one of a kind aquarium fish which doesn’t occur in nature (as far as we know) Resulting from the cross between a male blue neon cleaner goby Elacatinus oceanops and a female Brazilian endemic Yellowlline goby, Elacatinus figaro, hybrid cleaner gobies were first introduced by Oceans Reefs & Aquariums (ORA). You’d think that Read More

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