💜💚🩵🪸 Acropora valida “Tricolour” – Cut-to-Order Frag
CTO Specimen – Classic Tricolour SPS Coral
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Moderate to Advanced
Temperament: Peaceful
Colour Form: Classic tricolour combination featuring cream to green branches, vivid purple growth tips and contrasting brightly coloured polyps ranging from neon green to electric blue depending on lighting conditions. Under actinic lighting, the tips and polyps fluoresce intensely while balanced white lighting reveals the coral’s pastel body tones and strong colour separation.
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 200–400)
Water Flow: Strong, random and turbulent
Placement: Mid to Upper reef
Type: Cut-to-Order Frag (CTO)
🧬 Overview
The Acropora valida “Tricolour” is one of the most iconic and recognisable SPS corals in the reef hobby. Loved for its strong colour contrast and elegant branching structure, this coral combines multiple vibrant tones within a single colony, creating a classic high-end reef aesthetic.
As the coral matures, it develops compact branching growth with striking purple axial tips, lighter branch bodies and highly fluorescent polyps that sway gently in turbulent flow. Its balanced coloration makes it an excellent centrepiece coral while also blending beautifully into mixed SPS systems.
The Tricolour Valida is often appreciated not only for its beauty, but also for its comparatively forgiving nature among Acropora species, making it a favourite choice for reef keepers progressing into more advanced SPS aquariums.
Under stable nutrient conditions and strong lighting, the coral develops richer contrast, brighter tip coloration and dense daytime polyp extension.
🧾 Cut-to-Order Information
This coral is sold as a Cut-to-Order (CTO) frag from our established mother colony.
You will receive:
• A healthy freshly cut frag
• Strong tricolour contrast and fluorescence
• Fully healed or healing encrusted base depending on production timing
• Similar colouration and structure to the reference colony shown
Selected for:
• Classic tricolour SPS appearance
• Vibrant purple growth tips
• Strong polyp extension
• Excellent branching structure
• Ideal balance of beauty and growth potential
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Primarily photosynthetic but benefits from stable nutrients and occasional SPS-targeted feeding.
Recommended:
• Amino acid supplementation
• Fine particulate SPS foods
• Stable nitrate and phosphate levels
• Strong random flow and mature biological filtration
📈 Optimal Parameters
Parameter | Ideal Range
Alkalinity (dKH) | 7.5–8.5
Calcium (Ca) | 400–450 ppm
Magnesium (Mg) | 1250–1400 ppm
Nitrate (NO₃) | 2–15 ppm
Phosphate (PO₄) | 0.02–0.08 ppm
📍 Placement
Place in medium to high light areas with strong turbulent flow to encourage compact growth, intense coloration and healthy polyp extension.
💜💚🩵 Acropora valida “Tricolour” – CTO
A timeless SPS classic — vibrant purple tips, glowing polyps and elegant branching structure for the perfect reef contrast piece.