🤍🪣🪸 Acropora sp. “Bucket Flower Pot” – WYSIWYG
Unique Light Brown & White SPS with Dense Floral Texture
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Advanced
Temperament: Peaceful
Colour Form: Soft light-brown branches with creamy white growth tips and pale contrasting corallites. Under strong actinic lighting, the coral develops subtle icy fluorescence with glowing white highlights and delicate pastel undertones. Under balanced white lighting, additional beige, sand, ivory and metallic cream hues become visible 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 sp. “Bucket Flower Pot” is a highly unusual SPS coral recognised for its dense floral-style branch formation and elegant soft-toned coloration. This distinctive morph develops compact clustered growth with richly textured corallites that resemble small flower formations across the colony surface.
Under heavy blue-spectrum reef lighting, the coral displays glowing white highlights layered over its softer brown base tones, creating refined contrast and subtle fluorescence. In balanced daylight systems, additional ivory, cream and sandy metallic hues emerge, producing a natural premium reef aesthetic rarely seen in highly fluorescent SPS varieties.
As the colony matures, it develops dense branching structure, strong encrusting potential and highly textured corallites that create exceptional visual depth and movement under turbulent flow. In mature stable reef systems with strong lighting and random flow, Bucket Flower Pot rewards reef keepers with elegant structure, unique coloration and collector-grade reef presence.
🧾 WYSIWYG Information
You will receive the exact coral shown in the photographs.
Selected for:
• Unique floral-style SPS structure
• Elegant brown and white coloration
• Dense textured branch formation
• Exceptional natural reef appearance
• Strong SPS growth potential
🍽️ 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 structural texture, pale contrast and compact branching growth.
🤍🪣🪸 Acropora sp. “Bucket Flower Pot” – WYSIWYG
A refined SPS collector coral — floral branching texture, elegant white highlights and natural reef beauty.