Earlier this year, I did a interview with Scott Crowe of OSA Corals and in that live interview, I boldly stated my mission statement of this year. For those of you who have not seen the interview, my mission for this year was to highlight aquaculture and conservation (what we are doing to combat [...]
If you ever attend a MACNA show and want to see a beautiful display full of fish and corals in all the colors of the rainbow, do yourself a favor and visit ORA (Oceans, Reefs & Aquariums)’s booth. Every time they show up at an aquarium industry event, they steal the show with their [...]
Every year, The Marine Aquarium Conference of North America brings together aquarists from all over the world. They gather together to enjoy three days of interesting and informative talks by world renowned aquarists, presentations by the aquarium industry’s top vendors, and fabulous activities [...]
SPS Deep Dive – ORA Red Planet The ORA Red Planet is one of my favorite SPS for a number of reasons. Number one, it is red and who doesn’t love a splash of red in their reef to color things up. Number two, it is a tabling acropora so it looks like it is a natural part of a reef and number [...]
2015 has been quite the year for captive-bred fishes! We have seen such a variety of new things, as well as a great stride of species firsts! ORA has done it again with a brand new goby species! The Transparent Cave Goby (Fusigobius pallidus) is also known as the Pale Sand Goby, and is native to [...]
ORA has set the bar really high for 2015, and we’re just a dozen days into it. They announced on Friday via their blog that they will be shipping out their latest addition to the captive bred fish lineup, the ORA Kamohara Blenny (Meiacanthus kamoharai). This stunning fish is a Japanese [...]
No sooner than we wrap up our coverage of all of ORA’s 2014 captive bred fish and aquacultured frags, the famed fish breeders announce one more entry for the year. Yesterday, they revealed tha they had bred the Hector’s Goby (Koumansetta hectori), a nifty little fish that is as [...]
A continuing theme in the aquarium hobby over the years has been that of captive bred fish and aquacultured corals, and as each year passes, the list of conquered species just grows and grows. The efforts are obviously from the cumulative efforts of several individuals and organizations, though [...]