🌊 Ocean Emerald Acropora

Acropora sp. (Blue & Green Colony)

🔹 Quick Stats

• Care Level: Moderate to Advanced

• Temperament: Peaceful

• Colour Form: Deep emerald-green branches accented with glowing blue tips and polyp centres. Under actinic or blue-dominant lighting, the colours fuse into a vibrant oceanic contrast, creating a truly eye-catching ultra effect.

• Water Conditions: 24–27 °C, dKH 8–12, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026

• Family: Acroporidae

• Lighting: Moderate to high (essential for maintaining vibrant dual-colour)

• Supplements: Calcium, Magnesium, Trace Elements, Amino Acids

• Water Flow: Moderate to strong — ensures full polyp extension and vivid pigmentation

• Placement: Mid to upper reef levels

🧬 Overview

The Ocean Emerald Acropora is a premium ultra morph that displays an exquisite blend of green and blue. Its emerald-green branches are topped with glowing blue tips, creating a bold, reef-inspired palette that resembles the shifting colours of tropical lagoons.

Perfect as a statement piece, this coral adds depth and vibrant contrast to any SPS-dominated reef aquarium.

🍽️ Feeding & Care

Although primarily photosynthetic, this Acropora thrives with supplemental feeding 1–2 times per week. Offer fine particulate foods, phytoplankton, or coral amino acid blends. Proper feeding encourages brighter coloration, stronger skeletal growth, and fuller polyp extension.

📈 Optimal Parameters

• Alkalinity (dKH): 8–12

• Calcium (Ca): 420–460 ppm

• Magnesium (Mg): 1250–1350 ppm

• Nitrate (NO₃): 0–10 ppm

• Phosphate (PO₄): 0–0.05 ppm

📍 Placement

Position in an area with moderate to high light and steady water movement. Leave space for growth and polyp extension. Under blue-dominant lighting, the blue tips fluoresce vividly against the green base, producing a mesmerising oceanic glow.