💙💚🪸 Acropora tortuosa “Miyagi Tort” – Similar to Photos
Legendary Blue & Green Tortuosa with Elite Collector Structure
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Advanced
Temperament: Peaceful
Colour Form: Deep electric blue branches with vivid fluorescent green highlights and contrasting lighter axial tips. Under strong actinic lighting, the coral develops intense cobalt-blue fluorescence with glowing emerald corallites and exceptional colour contrast. Under balanced white lighting, additional teal, turquoise and metallic sapphire tones emerge throughout the colony.
Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 7.5–8.3, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Acroporidae
Lighting: High (PAR 250–450)
Water Flow: Strong, random and turbulent
Placement: Upper reef
Type: WYSIWYG Frag
🧬 Overview
The Acropora tortuosa “Miyagi Tort” is one of the most iconic and recognisable tortuosa collector corals in the reef aquarium hobby. Highly sought after for its striking blue-and-green coloration and elegant branching structure, this legendary SPS coral remains a favourite among advanced Acropora collectors worldwide.
Under heavy blue-spectrum reef lighting, the colony radiates vivid cobalt-blue fluorescence layered with glowing emerald-green corallites and branch highlights. In balanced daylight systems, deeper sapphire, teal and metallic turquoise tones emerge, creating exceptional depth and dramatic visual contrast across the colony.
As the coral matures, it develops long elegant tortuosa-style branching, strong vertical growth and heavily textured corallites that create remarkable movement under turbulent flow. In mature stable reef systems with intense lighting and strong random flow, Miyagi Tort rewards reef keepers with rapid growth, intense coloration and true high-end SPS collector appeal.
🧾 Similar to Photos Information
You will receive a frag highly similar to the photographs shown.
Selected for:
• Legendary blue and green tortuosa coloration
• Premium collector SPS lineage
• Elegant branching growth structure
• Exceptional actinic fluorescence
• Strong growth and encrusting potential
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Primarily photosynthetic but benefits greatly from stable nutrients and occasional SPS-targeted feeding.
Recommended:
• Amino acid supplementation
• Fine particulate SPS foods
• Stable nitrate and phosphate availability
• Strong turbulent random flow
• Mature reef systems with stable alkalinity
📈 Optimal Parameters
Parameter | Ideal Range
Alkalinity (dKH) | 7.5–8.3
Calcium (Ca) | 400–450 ppm
Magnesium (Mg) | 1250–1400 ppm
Nitrate (NO₃) | 2–10 ppm
Phosphate (PO₄) | 0.02–0.08 ppm
📍 Placement
Place in the upper regions of the aquarium under strong stable lighting and powerful random flow to maximise fluorescence, blue-green coloration and elegant tortuosa branching development.
💙💚🪸 Acropora tortuosa “Miyagi Tort” – WYSIWYG
A legendary SPS collector coral — electric blue fluorescence, emerald highlights and iconic tortuosa reef presence.