Video: Visiting ORA in Florida

melev · Jul 16, 2016

This week's video is about ORA in Florida. They supply use with farmed raised clams, corals and a bunch of fish species. This is a very rare video, since they don't give tours... ever.

Diesel · Jul 16, 2016

Nice job, Marc.

Btw, will travel soon to the Big D, not for business but hobby related and was hoping to see your fish bowl.

120reefkeeper · Jul 16, 2016

Awesome job and thanks for sharing!

jsker · Jul 16, 2016

Very nice video

revhtree · Jul 16, 2016

Very cool!

melev · Jul 16, 2016

Diesel said:
Nice job, Marc.

Btw, will travel soon to the Big D, not for business but hobby related and was hoping to see your fish bowl.

Sure, let me know when.

1mbrews8 · Jul 16, 2016

very cool!

cracker · Jul 16, 2016

Thanks melev that was very interesting. Wonder what other fishes they are learning how to breed.

Jimbo · Jul 16, 2016

Cool video. Do they grow out their Acro's under natural sunlight in that greenhouse or were those just softies ?

melev · Jul 17, 2016

Jimbo said:
Cool video. Do they grow out their Acro's under natural sunlight in that greenhouse or were those just softies ?

Acropora, Montipora, Zoanthids, leathers, softies, mushrooms, it was all out there in all those many troughs. The clams were indoors, though.

jlanger · Jul 17, 2016

Thanks for the video, Marc. Great job!
It's nice to see how some of the facilities do their magic behind the curtain.
And Dustin's a cool dude; he likes cookies too!

melev · Jul 17, 2016

jlanger said:
Thanks for the video, Marc. Great job!
It's nice to see how some of the facilities do their magic behind the curtain.
And Dustin's a cool dude; he likes cookies too!

Oh really? He didn't tell me that. lol

melev · Jul 17, 2016

While there, I asked when ORA was going to start breeding mandarins again. Turns out they aren't economically viable. From eggs to the point of being big enough to sell, they'd have to be two years old. Clownfish can be sell-sized in 3-6 months time, by comparison.

jlanger · Jul 17, 2016

melev said:
While there, I asked when ORA was going to start breeding mandarins again. Turns out they aren't economically viable. From eggs to the point of being big enough to sell, they'd have to be two years old. Clownfish can be sell-sized in 3-6 months time, by comparison.

Yeah, it's unfortunate that good intentions cannot outweigh the financial costs.

melev · Jul 17, 2016

I know. I told them to at least make me one female for my ORA male.

But I don't really think holding my breath will help.

Rob.D · Jul 17, 2016

Great video Marc!

jlanger · Jul 17, 2016

If you could only find an ORA female to pair with your male, place them into your frag system, breed them, raise them and then we could have ORA/melev mandarins!