🧡🔥 Acropora millepora “Orange Tone” – WYSIWYG
Fiery Orange Millepora with Intense Polyp Texture
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Advanced
Temperament: Peaceful
Colour Form: Bright orange to deep tangerine branches with contrasting lighter axial tips and vibrant extended polyps. Under strong actinic lighting, the coral develops intense fluorescent orange and molten ember tones, while balanced white lighting reveals additional peach, gold and sunset-orange coloration 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 millepora “Orange Tone” is a striking SPS coral prized for its rich warm coloration, dense polyp extension and highly textured appearance. Unlike smoother Acropora species, millepora develops thick fluffy polyps that create exceptional movement and visual depth under strong turbulent flow.
Under heavy blue-spectrum reef lighting, the coral radiates vivid fluorescent orange and ember-like glow effects across the branches and corallites. In balanced daylight systems, additional peach, apricot and golden-orange tones emerge, giving the colony a warm high-end collector appearance rarely seen in SPS aquariums.
As the colony matures, it develops compact branching growth, strong encrusting capability and dense colourful polyp coverage that makes it stand out dramatically in SPS-dominated reef systems. In mature stable aquariums, Orange Tone millepora rewards reef keepers with rapid growth, exceptional texture and intense visual impact.
🧾 WYSIWYG Information
You will receive the exact coral shown in the photographs.
Selected for:
• Intense orange fluorescence
• Thick fluffy polyp extension
• Premium millepora texture
• Strong SPS growth potential
• Rare warm collector coloration
🍽️ 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 coloration, fluorescence and dense polyp extension.
🧡🔥 Acropora millepora “Orange Tone” – WYSIWYG
A warm-toned SPS standout — fiery orange coloration, rich millepora texture and premium collector reef presence.