As we sit here this Friday the 25th of August 2023, Reef Builders has accumulated exactly 14,898 posts, 6862 of which were penned by the late, great Jake Adams. So we thought it would be fun to dig deep into…
New ‘Chainlink’ Maroon Clownfish Discovered in Papua New Guinea
The Chainlink Maroon Clownfish is a new aberrant individual of Premnas biaculeatus that was just collected in Papua New Guinea by Golden Ocean. While the discovery of the Chainlink Maroon Clownfish is an awesome surprise, it’s less of a shocker to…
Gold X Lightning Maroon Clownfish From ORA Is Full Of Surprises
The Gold X Lightning Maroon Clownfish has finally been fully revealed, and no one could have imagine that it'd be such a variable fish. We did however foresee that the Gold X Lightning Maroon would be very different from the 'common'…
Lightning Maroon Clownfish Are Cheap And Common Now
We knew this day would come, that we’d walk into a fish store, and see some lightning maroon clownfish offered up at affordable, double digit prices. It seems like just yesterday we we were writing about the first lightning maroon…
ORA’s Gold Lightning Maroon Could Be Very Different From The Originals
Just a few months after announcing the availability of lightning maroon clownfish, ORA made an even bigger announcement that they are now producing gold lightning maroon clownfish. This might seem like a small varietal change but regular and gold stripe maroon…
Lightning Maroon Clownfish now available from ORA
Lightning Maroon Clownfish were the sensation of the saltwater aquarium world several years ago, but in recent years this new clownfish strain has become much more readily available. There’s a multitude of breeders who are offering the Lightning Maroon Clownfish…
Lightning X Lightning Maroon Clownfish – Preliminary Results are IN!
We all were holding out hope that, just as the first matings of two Picasso Percula Clownfish yielded a 2nd new designer form of clownfish, so too people anticipated that the mating of two Lightning Maroon Clownfish would hopefully create…
Sea & Reef, followed by Reef Gen, bring WYSIWYG Wholesale Browsing Directly to Public Audiences
The concept of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) isn’t new; several online livestock retailers are well known for this practice. Less well known perhaps is that some livestock wholesalers also have private WYSIWYG offerings for retailers to browse;…
Attend the MBI Workshop, get your own Lightning Maroon Clownfish
The Marine Breeding Initiative wants to give you a Lightning Maroon Clownfish. That’s right. We are not fooling. The Lightning Maroon Clownfish was almost too good to be true when discovered back in 2008 and thanks to hobbyists like Matt Pedersen and…
First generation lightning maroon clownfish are developing into stunning fish
Several weeks ago, we had the chance to travel to the edge of the Earth, also known as Duluth to Minnesotans. We undertook the voyage through the treacherous Snowpacalypse Vortex III in order to finally lay our own eyes on…
