Frags from ORA

[MTBake]

I have a giant colony...but Chips is the worst shipper ever. I ship a ton of corals and its my only DOAs ever. To the point where I don't ship it anymore and if someone wants it that bad, I say I'll ship it but at the risk of no DOA. I can ship sensitive smooth skins no issues but not Chips. Its a mystery.

I've heard this from at least a half dozen others with this coral. I won't even try based on that.

If anyone around northern IL or southern WI has a frag of Chip's acro for sale, shoot me a PM. I'd really like to have this in my tank.

Thanks.

 

[FarmerTy]

I've heard this from at least a half dozen others with this coral. I won't even try based on that.

If anyone around northern IL or southern WI has a frag of Chip's acro for sale, shoot me a PM. I'd really like to have this in my tank.

Thanks.

I've tried several different adjustments to my shipment protocol with limited success. Healing for 2 months before shipping... Shipping with a ton of extra water... Shipping with a bit of carbon in the bag... Shipping multiple frags... Shipping larger mini colonies... All the same result. Coral will rapidly RTN in the new tank within days.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

I love me some ORA. Back in the day ORA was as designer as frags got, top tier corals. Still ultra great corals imo. ORA sps frags had always dominated my reef tanks in the past. They have for the most part been very hardy corals and color up well. I did have issues keeping a Blue Bottle Brush coral alive, it stn on me for an unknow reason. I plan to stock with new reef with several ORA corals.

 

[jda]

I have never had problems shipping it. I wonder if ORA did. Everybody has a tricky coral for them... mine was Wet Thumbs Tierra del Fuego for a long time, but now it has turned a corner for me.

If you just had ORA frags in a tank, you could have an awesome collection. ...especially some of the ones not offered anymore.

 

[FarmerTy]

I have never had problems shipping it. I wonder if ORA did. Everybody has a tricky coral for them... mine was Wet Thumbs Tierra del Fuego for a long time, but now it has turned a corner for me.

If you just had ORA frags in a tank, you could have an awesome collection. ...especially some of the ones not offered anymore.

Maybe something with keeping them in reef tanks weakens their health? Versus ORA selling them out of their mariculture facility?

You got me! I just know it's not even worth me shipping the ORA Chips... I might as well ship an empty frag plug.

 

[FarmerTy]

I've shipped that ORA Borealis, ORA Red Planet, ORA Hawkins Echinata, and ORA Bellini with no issues. Just that dang Chips!

 

[jda]

I have had a little bit of trouble with Pearlberry if it is not encrusted nice and big on the frag plug (like 4-6 weeks encrusted, not 10-14 days). I seem to get the same people coming back time and again for more Pearlberry after they kill the one that they traded/bought from me before.

I probably killed 3 Hawkins when it first came out before I had it stick. I struggled with that one in about 2004, or whenever.

 

[FarmerTy]

I have had a little bit of trouble with Pearlberry if it is not encrusted nice and big on the frag plug (like 4-6 weeks encrusted, not 10-14 days). I seem to get the same people coming back time and again for more Pearlberry after they kill the one that they traded/bought from me before.

I probably killed 3 Hawkins when it first came out before I had it stick. I struggled with that one in about 2004, or whenever.

Hawkins was one of my first kills... It was like I was being initiated into the acro club.

I had two Chips healed for 2 months roughly and then shipped... They always make it to the destination and the RTN within a day or two in the person's tank.

 

[jda]

I wanna say back then that Hawkins was a $25 frag. Pearlberry was $40. They were almost the size of golf balls. That seems right, but perhaps I am misremembering. Crazy nice frags for not much money.

Anybody remember their Blue and Rose Millepora? The Rose had an awesome sheen to it that very few AQ red milles have anymore.

 

[Ron Popeil]

Their Millepora are still available from ORA in limited quantities...you just have to ask.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Yeah I wish ORA would all their corals listee on their web page. It would be very cool if you could still every coral ORA has cultured but for reasoms only they know certain ones have been unavailable for many years while many old school favs are still very common. ORA has a reputation for being very closed doors on what they do and why, most aquaculture farms are fairly open door and want people to see what they are doing. Im sure ORA wants to keep their little tricks and secrets or everyone would be doing what they do with fish and coral propagation.