🏖️🔥 Jason Fox Beach Bum Montipora – Frag (Photo Reference)
Montipora sp. – Iconic High-Colour SPS With Tropical Orange, Yellow & Red Tones (Representative Photo)
🧬 Overview
The Jason Fox Beach Bum Montipora is a legendary SPS coral, instantly recognisable for its tropical colour palette — glowing sunset oranges, warm yellows, and fiery red accents that radiate under blue/actinic lighting.
This coral embodies the classic Jason Fox style: bold, saturated colours with strong visual impact and proven lineage.
⚠️ This is NOT WYSIWYG — the photo shown is a representative example.
You will receive a healthy, tank-grown frag of the same Beach Bum morph. Natural variation in colour balance, rim shape, and growth pattern is expected.
🔹 Quick Stats
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Care Level: Easy to Moderate
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Temperament: Peaceful
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Colour Form: Bright orange and yellow base with red highlights and strong fluorescence
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Lighting: Medium to High (PAR 180–350)
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Water Flow: Moderate to strong, broad/random
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Placement: Mid to upper rockwork with space for encrusting and plating growth
💡 Growth & Colour
Beach Bum Montipora typically encrusts quickly before developing plating or layered growth. Under stable reef conditions, expect:
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rapid base encrustation
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intensifying orange–yellow contrast with red accents
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strong glow under blue lighting
Balanced nutrients are important — ultra-low nutrient systems may mute colours. Stable alkalinity helps maintain clean growth edges and vivid pigmentation.
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Primarily photosynthetic, but benefits from:
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fine powdered coral foods or micro-plankton
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amino acid blends 1–2× weekly
Supplemental feeding can enhance colour saturation and speed up growth.
📈 Optimal Parameters
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Alkalinity: 7.5–8.5 dKH
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Calcium: 420–450 ppm
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Magnesium: 1250–1400 ppm
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Nitrate: 2–10 ppm
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Phosphate: 0.02–0.08 ppm
📍 Placement
Allow horizontal space for plating and spreading. Place where light is even and flow is broad to encourage smooth growth and strong colour development.
🏖️🔥 Jason Fox Beach Bum Montipora – Frag
A true collector classic delivering tropical fire colours and unmistakable Jason Fox pedigree.
Tank-grown and carefully selected — supplied as a healthy frag similar to the photo shown.