by James Lawrence | Feb 15, 2014 | Marine, New Products
Love is in the air, and isn’t mindful of species lines as proven by the latest hybrid dottyback from ORA. From ORA: This seems to be landmark year for Oceans, Reefs & Aquariums, as the tally of new ORA captive-bred fishes announced continues to mount. Here...
by Matt Pedersen | Feb 14, 2014 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, New Products
California-based Unique Corals entered the retail aquarium trade a few years ago with a mission to do things differently. That meant supporting sustainable fisheries (they were the exclusive source for EcoAquariums PNG livestock, the successor to the work that started...
by James Lawrence | Jan 28, 2014 | Marine, New Products
NEWS from Oceans, Reefs & Aquariums ORA is continuing its parade of exciting and unexpected new captive-bred species with the introduction of Gobiopsis quinquecinta (Smith, 1931). Called the Fiveband Barbelgoby on Fishbase, the species comes from the Indo-West...
by CORAL Magazine | Dec 30, 2013 | Marine, New Products
Other forms of this widespread Indo-Pacific seaweed are used in Asian kitchens as salad ingredients and in industry as a source of the thickener carageenan, but Blue Hypnea (Hypnea pannosa) is an iridescent blue ornamental algae and ORA believes it has a future in...
by James Lawrence | Dec 12, 2013 | Marine, New Products
Meet the Eastern Hulafish, Trachinops taeniatus, the newest aquacultured fish for the reef aquarium and exclusively available from its breeder, ORA in Ft. Pierce, Florida. This sub-tropical species is from New South Wales off southeastern Australia and is related to...