show your ORA corals

surfn · Oct 27, 2006

please show us your ORA corals. no knock offs or wild look a likes. only the real deal aquacultured corals obtained from ORA.

twon8 · Oct 29, 2006

german green with blue polyps

yellow bottlebrush

ora tort

ive got more, need to get more pics
i just got a piece of the blue bottlebrush, and a really green birdsnest.

twon8 · Oct 29, 2006

thanks, here's a close up of the yellow bottlebrush,

and here's a closeup of the german from 9/17, im gonna try and get a new one tonight, its grown a noticeable amount and also colored up nicely

twon8 · Oct 29, 2006

here you go, a month+ of growth

and this shot of my bully chromis, the pink mille on the right is ora also

mecold · Oct 30, 2006

Twon,

that is a very nice ora piece. I have been bugging the heck out of several lfs to get one for me. Problem is, it isn't on their lists

Oh well, I will settle for a chip of a frag from a friends tank

twon8 · Oct 30, 2006

mecold said:
Twon,

that is a very nice ora piece. I have been bugging the heck out of several lfs to get one for me. Problem is, it isn't on their lists Oh well, I will settle for a chip of a frag from a friends tank

yeah, it comes in as misc., dustin dorton who works for ora has it in his tank and it got sent out about a year ago. a lfs near me has a colony of it and he was nice enough to break a piece off for me.

johnanddawn · Oct 30, 2006

here are mine - i have two others but no pics - a tort(?) and what was called a blue bottle brush(tenesis?) - i will try to get pics soon
here are two
chips - top down

older shot from front

miami orchid - top down

older shot from front

johnanddawn · Oct 30, 2006

and two more:
the green milli in back - sorry terrible pic - i'try to get a better one

blue milli - polyps are closed cause i was messing in the tank

just a nice pic for color:

surfn · Oct 30, 2006

twon8, i'm liking that german green with blue polyps

but i thought you said it was yellow last time. or maybe that was a different coral. lol

since i have no functional camera, i'm gonna have to post other people's pics...

heres a link to a thread over on RC: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=959572&highlight=ORA

i cant find the thread, but some guy on RC had a pic of an ORA coral that was green with blue polyps. i saved the pics...
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ayoung/Pictures/Aquariums/misc pics/DSC_0901.jpeg

surfn · Oct 30, 2006

i got a frag of this from a guy who got this from ORA. they claimed it was the purple pillow but i'm pretty sure its not. i have the frag in my tank. and i'm sure its not the ORA tort, and its definitely not a tenius. not really sure what the heck it is. but its sweet.

twon8 · Oct 30, 2006

it's sort of a yellowish green, depending on the lighting

i dont' think that's the purple pillow as the pp has very tiny corallites; ive seen some ora torts come in lately that look a lot like your pic above, lots of green in the body.. who knows though.

surfn · Oct 30, 2006

i'm pretty sure the purple pillow has white polyps also. ditto on the tiny coralites.

i dont think its the tort b/c it looks completely different than the ORA torts i already have. its much more "bushier" with lots of branches, and the coralites are longer, sometimes curved, and the overall coral is much skinnier than a tort.

its almost like a turaki, or possibly what some people call an echinata

twon8 · Oct 30, 2006

surfn said:
i'm pretty sure the purple pillow has white polyps also. ditto on the tiny coralites.

i dont think its the tort b/c it looks completely different than the ORA torts i already have. its much more "bushier" with lots of branches, and the coralites are longer, sometimes curved, and the overall coral is much skinnier than a tort.

its almost like a turaki, or possibly what some people call an echinata

did you get it from someone in blacksburg?

surfn · Oct 30, 2006

nope, this one came from someone over on nano-reef. saw a pic of it in a ID thread last january, everyone ID'd it as the ORA purple pillow on nano-reef and RC when he asked for an ID.

just randomly came across the thread again when i was searching for something else last month. shot him a PM and got me very generously sized frag for $50.

guy said he got it from a saltwater store and it was labelled as ORA misc. several years ago. been growing like a weed in his tank since then. and i think its his only sps in his entire tank since its a nano, and he mostly does lps.

johnanddawn · Oct 31, 2006

my newest frag rock:
an ORA green milli, pink milli, and blue milli combo rock - this thing will be awesome one day:

jonbar1 · Oct 31, 2006

Not sure what it really is, but it does look like the pic of the Purple Pillow or Blue Tenuis on ORA's website.

surfn · Nov 4, 2006

twon8 said:
yeah, it comes in as misc., dustin dorton who works for ora has it in his tank and it got sent out about a year ago. a lfs near me has a colony of it and he was nice enough to break a piece off for me.

just wanted to let everyone know i got to see this colony today at the LFS twon got his from. all i can say is SWEEEEEEEEEEEET.

it looks wicked cool. some people say its yellow, but it looked like a very light green to my eyes. i imagine it depends on the light. but the polyps are the brightest blue polyps i've seen of that size on any sps coral. very very cool. can't wait to get that frag in my tank.

i cant believe i got a good sized frag for only $20. that was a steal, i was prepared to pay over $60 easy. i'm sure he could sell frags off of RC for $100 a pop, no problem.

twon8 · Nov 5, 2006

surfn said:
just wanted to let everyone know i got to see this colony today at the LFS twon got his from. all i can say is SWEEEEEEEEEEEET.

it looks wicked cool. some people say its yellow, but it looked like a very light green to my eyes. i imagine it depends on the light. but the polyps are the brightest blue polyps i've seen of that size on any sps coral. very very cool. can't wait to get that frag in my tank.

i cant believe i got a good sized frag for only $20. that was a steal, i was prepared to pay over $60 easy. i'm sure he could sell frags off of RC for $100 a pop, no problem.

yeah, mike's a really good guy and always is really fair with his prices, the only expensive things are ora, but they are expensive everywhere. some great deals, especially on frags from his own tank. you'll like the gomezi just as much, it gets green tips on the corralites, and gets really lite blue on new growth.

greystreet41 · Nov 9, 2006

these are my newest ORAs that came from them at MACNA (sp?) last month from that a LFS brought back and sold pretty cheap. Still don't have IDs on them.
(let's see if I can post pics)

greystreet41 · Nov 9, 2006

surfn said:
i got a frag of this from a guy who got this from ORA. they claimed it was the purple pillow but i'm pretty sure its not. i have the frag in my tank. and i'm sure its not the ORA tort, and its definitely not a tenius. not really sure what the heck it is. but its sweet.

surfn, I don't recognize that as an ORA I've seen before but it's sweet! corallites kind of look like jacqualine (sp?) , carduus, carolinia, and another one that escapes me at the moment. Looks like a lot of the "deepwater" acros...I dunno. Awesome color though.