🍓💚🔴🪸 Acropora microclados “Strawberry Shortcake Red & Green” – Fine Corallites – Australian Wild Colony – Cut to Order
Premium Australian Strawberry Shortcake Acropora – Red & Green SPS Coral
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Moderate to Advanced
Temperament: Semi-aggressive (may compete with neighbouring corals)
Colour Form: A spectacular Australian Acropora microclados displaying the iconic Strawberry Shortcake combination of vibrant red to strawberry-pink pigmentation and contrasting green tones. Its delicate branches feature exceptionally fine, closely spaced corallites, creating a refined and intricate appearance. The beautiful contrast between the reddish branch tips and green base produces a stunning display under balanced reef lighting, while actinic illumination enhances the fluorescent green highlights and rich pink-red pigmentation.
Origin: Australia – Wild Collected
Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 7.5–8.5, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Acroporidae
Lighting: Moderate to High (PAR 250–400)
Flow: Strong, random and turbulent
Placement: Middle to Upper rockwork
Availability: Cut to Order – Prepared from the Mother Colony
🔹 Overview
The Acropora microclados “Strawberry Shortcake Red & Green” is an exceptional wild-collected Australian SPS coral, admired for its iconic combination of strawberry-red pigmentation and vibrant green coloration.
This particular specimen stands out for its delicate, finely structured corallites, giving the branches an elegant and intricate appearance compared with more robust Acropora growth forms.
The beautiful contrast between its green base and reddish-pink growth tips creates the characteristic Strawberry Shortcake appearance, making it one of the most desirable colour combinations among premium Australian Acropora.
As the colony matures, its compact branching structure develops into a spectacular display of fine skeletal detail, vibrant pigmentation and natural reef architecture.
Each frag is prepared directly from the selected Australian wild mother colony, offering collectors the opportunity to acquire a piece of this beautiful specimen.
🔹 Selected For
✔ Iconic Strawberry Shortcake red and green colour combination
✔ Premium wild-collected Australian Acropora
✔ Exceptionally fine and delicate corallite structure
✔ Beautiful strawberry-red to pink growth tips
✔ Contrasting vibrant green base and fluorescent highlights
✔ Elegant, compact branching growth
✔ Highly desirable SPS collector's coral
✔ Cut to Order – Frag prepared from the mother colony
✔ Mother colony shown in photos – frag size and shape may vary
🔹 Care & Feeding
Acropora microclados thrives in mature, stable reef aquariums with moderate to high lighting and strong, variable water movement.
As this specimen originates from a wild-collected Australian colony, careful acclimation is particularly important to minimise stress and encourage successful adaptation to aquarium conditions.
Provide strong, indirect turbulent flow to maintain healthy tissue and prevent detritus accumulation between the delicate branches.
Maintain consistent alkalinity, calcium and magnesium concentrations, avoiding sudden fluctuations that may compromise coral health.
Gradually acclimate new frags to higher lighting intensity, particularly when transferring them between aquariums with different LED lighting systems.
Although primarily photosynthetic, occasional feeding with fine particulate coral foods, amino acids and plankton-based nutrition may support tissue health and growth.
Balanced nitrate and phosphate concentrations are important for maintaining healthy pigmentation and overall coral vitality.
Important: As a Cut to Order coral, freshly prepared frags require an appropriate healing and recovery period before shipping. Dispatch will be arranged once the frag demonstrates suitable tissue condition and stability.
🔹 Recommended Parameters
Temperature: 24–26 °C
Salinity: 1.024–1.026 SG
Alkalinity: 7.5–8.5 dKH
Calcium: 400–450 ppm
Magnesium: 1250–1400 ppm
Nitrate: 2–10 ppm
Phosphate: 0.03–0.10 ppm
🔹 Placement & Compatibility
Ideally positioned in the middle to upper sections of the reef aquarium, where it receives moderate to high lighting and strong, multidirectional water movement.
Allow sufficient space for future branching growth and avoid direct contact with neighbouring corals.
Under stable aquarium conditions, this Acropora can develop beautiful strawberry-red growth tips, vibrant green pigmentation and a refined branching structure with exceptionally fine corallites.
The final intensity and distribution of its red and green coloration may vary depending on lighting spectrum, nutrient availability, acclimation and aquarium conditions.
🔹 Cut to Order Information
This coral is sold as a Cut to Order frag, prepared directly from the Australian wild mother colony displayed in the product photographs.
The photographs represent the mother colony and its colour characteristics. The frag supplied will be a portion of this colony, and its exact size, shape and branching structure may vary.
Freshly cut frags are allowed an appropriate recovery period before dispatch to help ensure safe transport and successful acclimation.
🍓💚🔴 The Australian Strawberry Shortcake Acropora microclados is an extraordinary wild-collected SPS coral combining vibrant green pigmentation, beautiful strawberry-red highlights and exceptionally fine corallite structures. A spectacular Cut to Order collector's Acropora that brings iconic Australian reef coloration, intricate detail and premium elegance to any established SPS aquarium!