🪸💚🧡 Green with Orange Tips Acropora – Frag WYSIWYG

Premium SPS Collector Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Moderate to Advanced Temperament: Peaceful Colour Form: Vibrant green tissue beautifully contrasted by striking orange branch tips, creating an exceptional two-tone appearance. The rich green pigmentation extends across the coral's intricate branching structure, while the warm orange growth tips provide outstanding colour contrast and visual depth. Under blue-spectrum reef lighting, the combination of green and orange tones becomes particularly eye-catching, highlighting the coral's distinctive growth points and elegant skeletal architecture. 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 Green with Orange Tips Acropora is a spectacular SPS coral admired for its vibrant green pigmentation, contrasting orange growth tips, and intricate branching structure. Combining two beautifully contrasting colours with the characteristic skeletal architecture of Acropora corals, this variety offers exceptional visual appeal in established reef aquariums.

Its most distinctive feature is the striking contrast between its richly coloured green tissue and warm orange branch tips, creating a dynamic appearance that sets it apart from more uniformly coloured Acropora varieties.

As the colony develops, the Green with Orange Tips Acropora produces an increasingly intricate network of branches and corallites, with numerous growth points contributing to its distinctive appearance and natural complexity.

The vibrant orange tips highlight the coral's active growth areas, creating an attractive visual effect against the green base colouration. Under appropriate lighting and stable water conditions, this contrasting pigmentation can become particularly pronounced.

Its beautiful combination of green and orange tones makes it an excellent choice for aquarists looking to introduce additional colour diversity into SPS-dominated aquariums.

Selected for:

• • Vibrant green tissue with striking orange branch tips

• • Beautiful two-tone pigmentation and exceptional colour contrast

• • Intricate branching structure and distinctive growth points

• • Outstanding visual impact under blue-spectrum reef lighting

• • Premium WYSIWYG collector frag

🍽️ Care & Feeding

Although primarily photosynthetic, Acropora corals 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.

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 Green with Orange Tips 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.

Avoid placing the frag directly in front of concentrated water jets, and provide sufficient space for its branching structure to develop naturally.

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

Stable water chemistry, balanced nutrient availability, and appropriate lighting will help maintain its vibrant green pigmentation and contrasting orange growth tips while encouraging healthy colony development.

🪸💚🧡 Green with Orange Tips Acropora – Frag WYSIWYG

A spectacular WYSIWYG Green with Orange Tips Acropora frag featuring vibrant green tissue beautifully contrasted by striking orange branch tips. With its distinctive two-tone colouration, intricate branching structure, and exceptional visual appeal, this premium SPS coral is an outstanding addition to established reef aquariums and exclusive Acropora collections.