ORA Leucokranos

[Kris4647]

So around 10 years ago ORA got hold of a really special pair of clowns and brought them to market a few years later. I’m attaching their story along with a few old pictures of them.

Unfortunately most of the progeny had a few notable deformities. Bulldog face underbite etc etc. [HASH=76273]#Faceonlyamomcouldlove[/HASH]

I’m writing this to see if any of these little guys made it to adulthood? This came up in a Facebook rare clownfish forum. I had a few that I lost to a hurricane years ago.

Backstory

The Amazing Journey of the ORA Leucokranos Clownfish | AquaNerd

ORA recently got their hands on a breeding pair of Leucokranos Clownfish, but not before the fish were lost in the mail for nine days.

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The kiddos

ORA shows off their first captive bred leucokranos clownfish | Reef Builders | The Reef and Saltwater Aquarium Blog

Amphiprion leucokranos is a coveted hybrid-species of clownfish which is only very rarely available, usually from the Solomon Islands. But if you made it to MACNA 2014 this weekend you could have seen…

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Kind of looks like a cross between a clownfish and a piranha...

 

[Kris4647]

Kind of looks like a cross between a clownfish and a piranha...

I guess I would say in deference to the folks at ora there was a lot of excitement around the journey to retail. It’s a very rare clownfish and a hybrid at that.

This is my wild caught juvenile for comparison. Along with gratuitous peeking out of their host shots.