ORA Pearlberry back in production

michael giordano · Apr 12, 2019

I got a story for you all, 5 years ago I sold my tank and all these nice acros with it to a buddy. One of the colonies was a big pearlberry. A year later ORA kills there colony and purchases the colony from my buddy out my old tank. They have been growing it ever sense and the frags you see online are from my original colony. The colony ORA purchased is og pearlberry, but i grew if from a Frag that another friend of mine who may not want to be named, this friend literally has the biggest Oregon tort colony you have ever seen. When I started a new tank setup a year ago, I got a piece of the pearlberry back from him and of course the Oregon tort.

jolt · Apr 17, 2019

I got one from live aquaria (not DD) today. It looks pretty nice.

OnPointCorals · Apr 17, 2019

jolt said:
I got one from live aquaria (not DD) today. It looks pretty nice.

Wow! Looks so great well worth the price

jda · Apr 17, 2019

Here a darker colored one of mine under higher PPFD. This real-deal Pearlberry would easily fetch 100+ and probably more like $150 in my area.

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acropoora · Apr 17, 2019

Wow. Liveaquaria doesn't mess around.

Mine

Bouncingsoul39 · Apr 18, 2019

I bough this one from a hobbyists last weekend sold as a Pearlberry. You guys think this is the same as ORA? To me it looks like a completely different Acro.

jda · Apr 18, 2019

I cannot really tell from that photo. I see a LOT of fakes, and they are mostly cheaper frags. This is nothing definitive, but usually the real-deal ones are 80-100+. Part of me says that coral is A. Plana and not a Pearlberry, but I would give it time. Crayola and other A. Plana have similar coloration and are usually not as expensive.

Here is a thread with some real and some fake photos. Some of the real ones look suspect when small and then turn out awesome when they grow a bit.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/ora-pearlberry.359187/