As anyone who has ever fragged out more than a few corals knows, one of the key tools of the coral farmer is a good heavy duty “wet” band saw with a diamond blade. For many years the only choice…
Search Results For: ORA
Tiny orange tongue coral is an example of how to find cool corals
If there is one thing that I am glad about in this hobby it’s that my taste in corals is pretty different from the mainstream. I like weirdo corals, weirdo colors and I especially love creeper corals which look like…
New study documents increased growth of staghorn Acropora in higher phosphate levels
Acropora corals are a mysterious creature with complex needs and one of those that we thought we’d nailed long ago was their “need” for minimal phosphate concentration in the water. A new study by Dunn et. al. which will be…
Captive bred Koran angelfish – another smashing success for Rising Tide
On the heals of a close call with breeding the Schooling Bannerfish, Heniochus diphueretes, the marine ornamental team at the University of Florida’s Tropical Aquaculture Lab doubled down and has just released photographs and video of what is probably the…
Coral Morphologic wins a grant to start painting Miami as a Coral Reef City
Throughout many parts of Miami there’s a whole lot of coral growing at the water’s edge and no one knows that better than the coral-huggers at Coral Morphologic. We’ve written extensively about Core More over the years: first with some…
Koi Coral Beauty angelfish holds aberrant color pattern after more than four months in captivity
Cebu reef fish are totally hot right now! It seems like everywhere we look there’s some new species, rare morph or absolutely wild aberration shipping out of the Northern Philippines. We’ve covered some aberrant pygmy angelfish before but what makes…
Aldersladum is a new soft coral genus created for two unique (former) species of Efflatournaria
Aldersladum is a new genus of soft coral which was erected due to some very peculiar sclerites in one former species of Efflatournaria and another new species of soft coral. The two species in the genus Aldersladum are A. godwanum…
Orange frogspawn coral from Vietnam is jaw-dropping and stunning
In the recent years, we’ve seen quite a number of “orange” Euphyllia trickling in from Australia and Indonesia such as the famous orange hammer coral, and the pretty elusive orange branching frogspawn coral. Unfortunately, as the popularity for these exotic Euphyllias peaked,…
LiveAquaria and ORA partnered up to produce more Mcculochi clownfish
If you’ve been hankering for one little tank-bred Mcculochi clownfish your chances to get this black devil darling of a clownfish is about to get a whole lot more affordable. Tonight LiveAquaria will post the first new specimens of the…
