🩷💛✨ Acropora latistella “Pink Yellow Dots” – WYSIWYG
Rare Pink Latistella with Golden Speckled Corallites
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Advanced
Temperament: Peaceful
Colour Form: Vibrant pink branches covered with contrasting bright yellow corallite dots and lighter axial tips. Under strong actinic lighting, the coral develops intense fluorescent pink coloration with glowing golden-yellow highlights scattered throughout the colony. Under balanced white lighting, additional peach, blush and metallic pastel-yellow tones become visible across the branch structure.
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 latistella “Pink Yellow Dots” is a highly distinctive SPS collector coral prized for its rare spotted coloration and elegant branch structure. Unlike many smoother Acropora species, latistella develops richly textured corallites that create exceptional detail and visual depth throughout the colony.
Under heavy blue-spectrum reef lighting, the coral radiates vivid fluorescent pink coloration layered with glowing yellow dotted corallites that produce remarkable contrast and collector appeal. In balanced daylight systems, softer blush, peach and pastel-gold tones emerge, giving the colony an elegant premium appearance rarely seen in SPS aquariums.
As the colony matures, it develops refined branching growth, strong encrusting capability and highly textured corallites that stand out dramatically under turbulent flow. In stable mature reef systems with strong lighting and high random flow, Pink Yellow Dots latistella rewards reef keepers with rapid growth, rare coloration and exceptional SPS display impact.
🧾 WYSIWYG Information
You will receive the exact coral shown in the photographs.
Selected for:
• Rare pink and yellow spotted coloration
• Premium latistella branch structure
• Exceptional collector contrast
• Strong SPS growth potential
• Unique textured corallite appearance
🍽️ 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, spotted coloration and refined branching growth.
🩷💛✨ Acropora latistella “Pink Yellow Dots” – WYSIWYG
A rare SPS collector coral — glowing pink fluorescence, golden dotted corallites and elegant latistella structure.