🪸 Acropora echinata “Yellow Lash Grey” – Frag WYSIWYG

Premium Smoky Grey Echinata with Vibrant Yellow Polyps – Rare SPS Selection

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Advanced
Temperament: Semi-Aggressive
Colour Form: A distinctive Acropora echinata featuring elegant smoky-grey to silver-grey branches, beautifully contrasted by vibrant yellow polyps. The fine, delicate polyps create a striking lash-like appearance along the coral's slender branches. Under blue-spectrum lighting, the yellow pigmentation produces attractive fluorescent highlights against the sophisticated grey base.
Size: 1 Established Frag
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 180–300)
Water Flow: Moderate to Strong, indirect and variable
Placement: Mid to Upper Reef
Type: WYSIWYG – Exact Frag Shown

🧬 Overview

The Yellow Lash Grey Acropora echinata is an exceptional SPS selection, combining the refined elegance of smoky-grey pigmentation with the striking contrast of vibrant yellow polyps.

Its characteristic slender, delicate branches display beautiful grey to silver-grey tones, providing the perfect background for the bright yellow polyps distributed along the coral's surface.

The distinctive polyp extension creates the appearance of tiny fluorescent yellow lashes, adding texture, movement and visual interest to the coral's intricate branching structure.

Under blue-spectrum reef lighting, the yellow polyps become particularly eye-catching, while the muted grey branches maintain an elegant, understated appearance.

Acropora echinata is especially appreciated by experienced SPS enthusiasts for its delicate growth architecture and unusual colour combinations. As the coral develops, its fine branches create an increasingly intricate structure, making it a beautiful centrepiece for a carefully curated Acropora collection.

This WYSIWYG frag has been individually selected for its unusual grey and yellow pigmentation, offering a distinctive addition to premium SPS reef aquariums.

🧾 WYSIWYG – Individual Frag

You will receive the exact Yellow Lash Grey Acropora echinata frag shown in the photographs.

Selected for:

• Distinctive smoky-grey to silver-grey base coloration
• Vibrant yellow polyp pigmentation
• Beautiful fluorescent yellow lash-like polyps
• Elegant, slender Echinata branching structure
• Strong visual contrast under blue-spectrum lighting
• Unusual grey and yellow SPS colour combination
• Premium selection for experienced Acropora collectors
• Exact WYSIWYG frag shown

🍽️ Care & Feeding

Acropora echinata is a photosynthetic SPS coral that relies primarily on its symbiotic dinoflagellates for energy. It may also benefit from occasional supplemental feeding with fine planktonic foods and suspended organic particles.

Provide moderate to strong, variable water movement to ensure efficient nutrient transport, gas exchange and the removal of accumulated detritus. Avoid placing the coral directly in a concentrated pump jet, as its delicate branches and tissues can be sensitive to excessive direct flow.

Stable alkalinity, calcium and magnesium concentrations are essential for healthy skeletal development. Maintaining measurable nitrate and phosphate levels helps support tissue health, pigmentation and consistent polyp extension.

As with other delicate Acropora species, stability is more important than pursuing extreme lighting or ultra-low nutrient conditions.

Gradually acclimate the frag to its final lighting intensity, avoiding sudden changes in PAR or water chemistry.

📈 Optimal Parameters

📍 Placement

Position the frag in the middle to upper sections of the reef, where it receives moderate to high lighting and consistent, multidirectional water movement.

Acropora echinata develops delicate, elongated branches that benefit from sufficient space to grow without contacting neighbouring corals.

Avoid sudden exposure to very high PAR levels. Gradual light acclimation is recommended to preserve healthy tissue and support the development of its distinctive grey and yellow coloration.

💛🩶🪸 Yellow Lash Grey Acropora echinata – Frag WYSIWYG

A remarkable Echinata selection featuring elegant smoky-grey branches adorned with vibrant yellow, lash-like polyps — an exquisite combination of delicate architecture, refined coloration and striking fluorescence for discerning SPS collectors.