🪸 Acropora valida “Tricolor” – Frag WYSIWYG

Premium Tricolor Valida Acropora – Purple, Green & Cream SPS Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Moderate to Advanced
Temperament: Semi-Aggressive
Colour Form: A striking tricolour combination featuring a rich purple to violet pigmentation on the branch tips, contrasting with a greenish base and lighter cream to beige branches. Under blue-spectrum lighting, the green areas may develop attractive fluorescent highlights, while the purple tips create a distinctive multicoloured appearance.
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 200–350)
Water Flow: Moderate to Strong, indirect and turbulent
Placement: Mid to Upper Reef
Type: WYSIWYG – Exact Frag Shown

🧬 Overview

The Tricolor Acropora valida is a classic and highly desirable SPS coral, celebrated for its elegant branching structure and beautiful contrast between purple, green and lighter natural tones.

Its characteristic coloration combines vibrant violet-purple branch tips, green pigmentation around the base and contrasting cream to beige skeletal areas, creating a sophisticated multicoloured appearance.

Under suitable reef lighting, the purple growth tips become particularly eye-catching, while the green pigmentation adds depth and contrast to the colony.

As the coral develops, its branching growth produces an increasingly intricate structure, making it an excellent choice for aquarists looking to add colour, texture and architectural interest to their SPS collection.

This WYSIWYG frag offers the opportunity to acquire an individually selected Tricolor Valida specimen, with the potential to develop into a beautiful branching colony under stable reef conditions.

🧾 WYSIWYG – Individual Frag

You will receive the exact Tricolor Acropora valida frag shown in the photographs.

Selected for:

• Classic premium Tricolor Acropora coloration
• Beautiful purple to violet branch tips
• Contrasting green basal pigmentation
• Elegant cream and beige branch tones
• Attractive fluorescent highlights under blue lighting
• Intricate branching growth structure
• Excellent potential as a colourful SPS display colony
• Exact WYSIWYG frag shown

🍽️ Care & Feeding

Acropora valida is a photosynthetic SPS coral that relies primarily on its symbiotic zooxanthellae for energy. However, it may benefit from occasional supplemental feeding with fine planktonic foods and suspended organic particles.

Provide moderate to strong, variable water movement to support efficient gas exchange, nutrient transport and removal of accumulated detritus. Avoid placing the frag directly in a concentrated pump jet.

Stable alkalinity, calcium and magnesium levels are particularly important for healthy skeletal development. Maintaining measurable nitrate and phosphate concentrations helps support tissue health and consistent coloration.

Lighting should be introduced gradually, particularly when moving the coral between aquariums with different intensities or spectral configurations.

📈 Optimal Parameters

📍 Placement

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

Allow sufficient space around the coral for future branching growth and to prevent contact with neighbouring colonies.

For the best long-term results, maintain stable water chemistry and avoid sudden changes in lighting intensity or nutrient availability.

💜💚🪸 Tricolor Acropora valida – Frag WYSIWYG

A timeless SPS classic combining violet-purple growth tips, contrasting green pigmentation and elegant branching architecture — a spectacular addition to any premium Acropora collection.