ORA is at it again. The rumors were true! About a month after the release of ORA’s first captive bred Spotted Mandarins (Synchiropus picturatus) comes the announcement that the Blue Psychedelic Mandarin Dragonettes (Synchiropus splendidus) are being released (press release…
Captive Bred Mandarin Feeding Video
[youtube width=”640″ height=”385″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZEGItO4zZU[/youtube] We cannot get enough of these new releases from ORA. This amazing video, shared by Dustin Dorton of ORA, provides a rare glimpse into ORA’s culture setup. The video demonstrates the feeding response of captive bred Synchiropus…
Shocker: ORA Spotted Mandarin Gobies selling out
When ORA dropped the bomb that they would begin selling captive breed Spotted Mandarin Gobies it was a big deal in the industry. These fish which are highly desirable are usually expensive for wild caught specimens and aren’t the…
Captive raised Mandarins – lets collectively put our money where our mouths are
This week ORA has started shipping the long awaited captive bred spotted mandarin fish, Synchiropus picturatus. The two pictured above (looks like a male and female!) are destined for a new picture frame tank to show them off, but are…
ORA captive raised Spotted Mandarins go on sale
The first batch of captive bred ORA Spotted Mandarins is being released and should be soon be available for purchase from your favorite Oceans, Reefs and Aquariums (ORA) merchant. Synchiropus picturatus is one of the jewels of the marine aquarium trade…
The Milka Stylo, an amazing purple Stylophora as photographed by Sanjay Joshi
The Purple Stylophora which has recently entered the American reef aquarium hobby is one of the more distinct new SPS strains to become available in years. European aquarists have been enjoying this strain of purple polyp Stylophora pistillata for over…
Black Ice Semi Snowflake Clownfish is ORA’s freak of the week
Lookout Dominoes and Black Photons because there’s a new clownfish cross in town and it’s called the Black Ice Semi Snowflake. Apparently ORA tried to rub a black ocellaris clownfish together with a snowflake clownfish, hoping to get a black…
Blue Cespitularia now available captive grown from ORA
Blue Cespitularia is an iconic soft coral which was quasi unobtainable for the better part of the last decade of reefing. Following the opening of more locations to coral collections and expanded list of species which are collected for the…
Black saddle back clownfish available captive bred for the first time from ORA
The Black Saddle Clownfish is a much rarer form of Amphiprion polymnus, the same species as the common saddle back clownfish. Unlike the more commonly available brown saddle back clownfish, the black saddle back clownfish is blacker and the second…
Domino & Midnight clownfish strains, first images from ORA
The domino and midnight clownfish from ORA are some of this season’s hottest designer marine aquarium reef fish. If you’ve been looking for that new look which will spruce up your reef without making it look fat, you know that…
