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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After more than three years since the discovery of the first Lightning Maroon Clownfish, lightning struck twice for marine fish breeder Matt Pedersen as he successfully raised a crop of Premnas biaculeatus from PNG with the crazy lightning pattern on the first clutch. No one expected that this level of success would be achieved on the Read More

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The Goldflake Maroon Clownfish is the latest and greatest new clownfish strain from the trailblazing fish breeders over at Oceans, Reef & Aquariums. Other breeders such as Mike Hoang have been producing similar fish called goldflake maroon clownfish, which is the name adopted by ORA. The golflake maroon clownfish is endowed with a great degree Read More

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Lightning maroon clownfish have spawned, hatched, and already the first little bits of banding in the F1 generation show super promising aberrations of banding which will have the clownfish breeders very excited. Even though the maroon lighting maroon clownfish was paired with a related Premnas biaculeatus from Papua New Guinea, we don’t think anyone really expected Read More

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If you have a single clownfish loving bone in your body, then you have to watch this amazing preview of the forthcoming nature DVD, Anemonefish: Nature’s Aquarium. The preview features many different species of anemonefish in the wild, hosting in the various large anemones that gives them their namesake. Amphiprion akyndinos, A. melanopus, A ocellaris, A. alkalopisos, Read More

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You may recall that about this time last year we were very excited about a misbar Maroon Clownfish being shown off by ORA at MACNA.  Later on, video of this overbarred or piebald Maroon Clownfish morph, strain or oddball suggests that these were in fact derived from Gold Stripe Maroons. While we’ve seen the oddball Read More

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It only took 18 months but our very own Matt Pedersen has finally succeeded in growing up the lightning maroon clownfish and pairing it with compatible partner. When the lightning maroon clownfish was initially imported, it was so small that it had to be the male in the clownfish match-making game, making it vulnerable to Read More

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Hybrid clownfish mostly take a backseat to clownfish varieties in the marine aquarium captive breeding world but wild clownfish crosses like Thielli clownfish and white-cap clownfish are always in high demand. We tend to think of wild clownfish crosses as mostly coming from the pairing of two different species but unusual accidental hybrids of clownfish Read More

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The misbar maroon clownfish is a domestic strain that we always knew would eventually arise out of the mass culture of Premnas biaculeatus. What we didn’t expect from the misbar maroon is for it to develop totally different bar/stripe aberrations that are more piebald than say the more reticulating and boldly outlined bars of Amphiprion Read More

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