🪸❤️🌍 Red Planet Acropora – Frag WYSIWYG

Premium SPS Collector Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Moderate to Advanced Temperament: Peaceful Colour Form: Spectacular deep red and vibrant pink-red pigmentation beautifully contrasted by green tones at the base and across the inner branches. The striking red growth tips and richly coloured corallites create an exceptional two-tone appearance, while the coral's distinctive branching and tabling structure adds impressive visual depth. Under balanced reef lighting, the contrast between its intense red pigmentation and green base becomes particularly attractive, making this Acropora a standout feature in SPS-dominated aquariums. 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) Water Flow: Strong, Random and Turbulent Placement: Mid to Upper Reef Type: WYSIWYG – Frag

🧬 Overview

The Red Planet Acropora is one of the most iconic and highly appreciated SPS corals in the reef aquarium hobby, renowned for its spectacular red pigmentation, contrasting green base, and distinctive branching growth pattern.

Originally popularised as a collector Acropora variety, the Red Planet has become a favourite among SPS enthusiasts thanks to its remarkable colouration and attractive colony structure.

Its most distinctive characteristic is the beautiful contrast between its vibrant red branches and the green pigmentation that can develop around the base and shaded areas of the colony. Depending on lighting intensity, water chemistry, and aquarium conditions, the balance between these colours may vary, with stronger lighting often encouraging more pronounced red pigmentation.

As the colony matures, the Red Planet Acropora can develop an impressive tabling or spreading branching structure, producing numerous growth points that create exceptional depth and visual complexity.

Its vibrant red colouration makes it particularly attractive alongside blue, purple, yellow, and green SPS corals, providing outstanding contrast within established reef aquariums.

With its combination of iconic colouration, distinctive growth, and collector appeal, the Red Planet Acropora remains an excellent choice for aquarists looking to add a truly recognisable SPS variety to their collection.

Selected for:

• • Spectacular deep red and vibrant pink-red pigmentation

• • Beautiful contrasting green base and inner branches

• • Distinctive spreading and tabling growth structure

• • Iconic collector Acropora with exceptional visual appeal

• • Premium WYSIWYG collector frag

🍽️ Care & Feeding

Although primarily photosynthetic, Red Planet Acropora can benefit from access to fine suspended foods and naturally occurring plankton, supporting healthy tissue development, pigmentation, and consistent skeletal growth.

Recommended feeding:

• • Reef Roids and fine powdered SPS coral foods

• • Zooplankton-based coral foods

• • Amino acid supplements when appropriate

• • Naturally occurring plankton and suspended organic particles

Maintaining stable alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium concentrations is essential for healthy skeletal development and consistent growth.

Balanced nitrate and phosphate levels are equally important, as excessively low nutrient concentrations may negatively affect tissue health and colouration.

The distinctive red and green pigmentation of the Red Planet Acropora can vary depending on lighting intensity and aquarium conditions. Higher lighting levels may encourage stronger red colouration, while lower-light areas can retain more green pigmentation.

Avoid sudden changes in lighting intensity, temperature, or water chemistry, as Acropora corals can be sensitive to rapid environmental fluctuations.

📈 Optimal Parameters

📍 Placement

Position the Red Planet Acropora in the middle to upper regions of an established reef aquarium, where it receives moderate to high lighting and strong, alternating water movement.

Random, turbulent flow is particularly important for Acropora corals, helping to prevent detritus accumulation between branches while promoting efficient nutrient exchange and healthy polyp extension.

As the colony matures, the Red Planet may develop a broad, spreading or tabling growth pattern. Allow sufficient horizontal space for future development and avoid positioning it too close to neighbouring corals.

Gradual light acclimatisation is recommended, particularly when introducing the frag into aquariums with powerful LED lighting systems.

Lighting intensity can influence its colour expression, with brighter conditions often promoting stronger red pigmentation, while more shaded areas may retain contrasting green tones.

Stable water chemistry, balanced nutrient availability, and appropriate lighting will help maintain its distinctive colouration while encouraging healthy colony development.

🪸❤️🌍 Red Planet Acropora – Frag WYSIWYG

A spectacular WYSIWYG Red Planet Acropora frag featuring vibrant red pigmentation, beautiful contrasting green tones, and the distinctive branching structure of this iconic SPS variety. With its remarkable colour contrast, attractive spreading growth pattern, and exceptional collector appeal, this premium Acropora is an outstanding addition to established reef aquariums and exclusive SPS collections.