Zebra seahorses are a fish that seems like it shouldn’t exist but it does, barely. What we mean by that is that there are examples of seahorses in the wild with perfect black and white stripes, one species is even…
Orange Starry Puffer is a Remarkable and Gorgeous Oddity
An orange pufferfish was recently collected in Western Australia by Oceans Reefs Marine Aquariums (ORMA) and it’s quite an unusual specimen. What makes the orange pufferfish so special is that it’s not the usual puffer species we see displaying this…
Some Totally Hot Orange & Yellow Tip Elegance Corals
Interest in large polyp stony corals with super flowy tentacles has catapulted the Euphyllia corals to hyper popularity in recent years. The very fast growing and diverse torch corals are king of this trend but elegance corals are not far…
ORMA Teases the Motherlode of Colorful Fluted Moon Corals
The fluted moon corals formerly of the special Barabbatoia genus may have been re-reclassified back into Favia, but that doesn’t really change how much we love them in reef tanks. This group of moon corals (Faviids), first ‘championed’ by Ocean…
Fluted Moon Coral Barabattoia from WA Appears in Wild Colors
Barabattoia, the ‘Fluted Moon Coral’ is part of a large group of stony corals belonging to the family Faviidae. We’re all mostly familiar with Favia and Favites moon brains but if you know what to look for, the family is much more…
