💙💚💜🪸 Acropora tortuosa “Miyagi Tort” – Frag
Legendary Blue & Green Tortuosa – Similar to Photo
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Advanced
Temperament: Generally peaceful
Colour Form: Classic bright green to teal base with deep blue, violet and purple tones developing along the branches and growth tips. Under actinic lighting, the contrast between the fluorescent green base and intense blue/purple growth becomes especially striking.
Size: Frag – Similar to Photo
Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 7.5–8.5, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Acroporidae
Lighting: High (PAR 250–400)
Water Flow: Strong, random and turbulent
Placement: Mid-High to Upper Reef
Type: Representative Photo – Individual Frags May Vary
🧬 Overview
The Miyagi Tort is a classic collector Acropora appreciated for its unmistakable combination of green tissue and rich blue-to-purple coloration.
As it matures, it develops an elegant upright branching structure with slightly irregular, twisting branches characteristic of the “Tort” growth style. Mature colonies can become particularly impressive, combining strong vertical growth with intense contrasting coloration.
Under blue-heavy reef lighting, the cooler blue and violet pigments become particularly vivid while the green areas develop strong fluorescence. Under a more balanced spectrum, additional teal, emerald and purple shades can become visible.
📸 Similar to Photo – Not WYSIWYG
The photograph is representative of our Miyagi Tort and the frags available. You will receive a frag with similar characteristics and coloration, but the exact size, shape, branching and distribution of green, blue and purple tones may naturally vary.
Selected for:
• Classic Miyagi Tort coloration
• Fluorescent green / teal base
• Deep blue and violet highlights
• Beautiful contrasting growth tips
• Elegant Tort-style branching
• Excellent SPS grow-out potential
• Strong actinic fluorescence
• Frag similar to the photo shown
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Miyagi Tort performs best in an established SPS aquarium with stable alkalinity, strong lighting and powerful multidirectional flow. It is primarily photosynthetic, although amino acids and fine particulate SPS foods may be offered as supplemental nutrition.
Maintaining stable, measurable nitrate and phosphate is preferable to aggressively stripping nutrients from the system.
📈 Optimal Parameters
| Parameter | Ideal Range |
|---|---|
| Alkalinity (dKH) | 7.5–8.5 |
| Calcium (Ca) | 420–450 ppm |
| Magnesium (Mg) | 1300–1400 ppm |
| Nitrate (NO₃) | 2–10 ppm |
| Phosphate (PO₄) | 0.02–0.08 ppm |
📍 Placement
Place in the middle to upper areas of the reef, ideally around 250–400 PAR once acclimated, with strong, irregular and multidirectional water movement. Gradual light acclimation is recommended when introducing new frags.
💙💚💜 Miyagi Tort Acropora – Frag – Similar to Photo
An old-school SPS legend — fluorescent green and teal contrasted by intense blue and violet growth, with the iconic branching structure that makes Miyagi Tort a reef classic.