Discontinued ORA corals

[scchase]

So I went backthrough threads today and found a few of their old Acros that they no longer have on their website. The ones I was able to find are German Blue polyp acro, Purple pillow, and Dustin's deepwater.
The question is does anyone have these anymore? If so pics and also what else am I missing from the list.

 

[myzislow]

I have all three. pics of the dustins and purple pillow:

 

[Bela N]

I have all three. pics of the dustins and purple pillow:

Congrats !! Killer pic, well done.

 

[chadfarmer]

that dustins looks good , i had it for 2 years and grew about an inch and than just died 1 day

 

[myzislow]

that dustins looks good , i had it for 2 years and grew about an inch and than just died 1 day

Yeah, the dusitns and purple pillow are both some of the more sensitive aqua-cultured pieces you can keep IMO.

Sorry to hear you lost yours.

 

[tandldel]

Love the Dustins.
FYI..
I emailed ORA the other day looking for some corals on the site but hard to find..i.e. The Ice Tort, Joe The Coral,Roscoe's Blue, Oregon & Blue Iris
Here is the response I got:

Ted,

Ice tort and Joe The Coral are both currently really hard to come by. They will most likely be brought back into mass production in the future, we just only have so much space in our coral green house.

Cheers,

Brian

No word on the rest and when I called the list of Vendors provided by them they were sold out of all of these as well...

 

[allsps40]

ORA still has the Dustin's Deep I saw some a few months ago at a LFS. I have noticed that some of ORA's corals come go then come back again. I assume it is due to the time it takes to grow out frags. The Red Planet was easy to get when it was released then it was nearly impossible to find because ORA ran out of frags. Several months later RD started showing up at LFS again.

 

[ange062]

Love the Dustins.
FYI..
I emailed ORA the other day looking for some corals on the site but hard to find..i.e. The Ice Tort, Joe The Coral,Roscoe's Blue, Oregon & Blue Iris
Here is the response I got:

Ted,

Ice tort and Joe The Coral are both currently really hard to come by. They will most likely be brought back into mass production in the future, we just only have so much space in our coral green house.

Cheers,

Brian

No word on the rest and when I called the list of Vendors provided by them they were sold out of all of these as well...

LOL, tandldel, are you trying to buy every piece in their catalog??

 

[tandldel]

LOL, tandldel, are you trying to buy every piece in their catalog??

Too funny I know...I am really looking for the Ice Tort..but.....

 

[myzislow]

ORA still has the Dustin's Deep I saw some a few months ago at a LFS. I have noticed that some of ORA's corals come go then come back again. I assume it is due to the time it takes to grow out frags. The Red Planet was easy to get when it was released then it was nearly impossible to find because ORA ran out of frags. Several months later RD started showing up at LFS again.

Highly doubt your LFS had real dustins from ORA on real ORA plugs. The coral has been off their lists for seemingly years now..Did you buy one? If it was real deal you'd be a fool not to IMO lol.

 

[fishguy597]

I have been asking my lfs for a pearl berry and ora told him that they won't be releasing it for a while. any truth to this?

 

[jnc914]

I have been asking my lfs for a pearl berry and ora told him that they won't be releasing it for a while. any truth to this?

Unfortunately, yes it is true. I have been trying to get a piece direct from ORA for several months. I was informed that they will not be releasing any frags, but will in the future; no specific date or time provided.

I remember just a year ago getting a monster piece of Pearlberry on an ORA plug from my LFS. I think I paid $50 and it was for practically a mini colony. The good ole days :spin3:

 

[myzislow]

Man the pearlberry is the one coral from ORA that I had absolutely no luck with, no matter where I put it. Always browned on me and never grew. Such a nice coral when it is at it's peak.