🪸✨ Golden with Purple Tips Acropora cerealis – WYSIWYG

Premium SPS Collector Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Advanced
Temperament: Peaceful
Colour Form: Rich golden-yellow branches complemented by vibrant purple growth tips and contrasting fluorescent axial corallites. Under actinic lighting, the golden tissue develops a warm metallic glow while the vivid purple tips intensify, creating one of the most elegant colour combinations found in Acropora cerealis.
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, Turbulent
Placement: Upper Reef
Type: WYSIWYG

🧬 Overview

The Golden with Purple Tips Acropora cerealis is a premium SPS coral prized for its striking contrast between warm golden branches and vividly coloured purple growth tips. Its elegant branching structure and exceptional colour balance make it a standout addition to any high-end SPS reef.

As the colony matures, it develops slender, evenly spaced branches with vibrant axial tips that become increasingly pronounced under stable reef conditions. Under blue-spectrum lighting, the golden tissue takes on a rich fluorescent glow while the purple tips provide dramatic contrast, creating a refined and eye-catching display.

Highly sought after by SPS enthusiasts, this Acropora cerealis rewards consistent husbandry with excellent growth, strong polyp extension, and outstanding long-term colour stability.

Selected for:

• • Brilliant golden-yellow colouration
• • Vibrant contrasting purple growth tips
• • Exceptional actinic fluorescence
• • Elegant branching growth structure
• • Premium WYSIWYG collector specimen

🍽️ Care & Feeding

Although primarily photosynthetic, Acropora cerealis benefits from regular feeding of fine suspended foods and amino acid supplementation, helping to maximise colour intensity, polyp extension, and skeletal growth.

Recommended feeding:

• • Reef Roids and fine powdered coral foods
• • Zooplankton-based SPS foods
• • Amino acid supplements
• • Live or preserved phytoplankton as part of a balanced feeding regime

Maintaining stable alkalinity and consistent nutrient levels is essential for achieving the best colouration and sustained healthy growth.

📈 Optimal Parameters

📍 Placement

Position in the upper regions of the aquarium where it receives high-intensity lighting and strong, random water movement. Stable water chemistry is essential to preserve the vivid golden pigmentation, maintain the intense purple tips, and promote compact branching growth.

🪸✨ Golden with Purple Tips Acropora cerealis – WYSIWYG

A stunning WYSIWYG Acropora cerealis featuring radiant golden branches, vibrant purple growth tips, and exceptional actinic fluorescence. Its elegant branching form and striking colour contrast make it a premium collector SPS and an outstanding centrepiece for any reef aquarium.