🌸❄️ Pink Ice Tenuis
Acropora tenuis – Two-Tone Pink & Ice Blue Colony
Please note: This listing is for a frag cut-to-order from the colony shown in the photograph.
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Advanced
Temperament: Peaceful (requires stable SPS conditions)
Colour Form: A stunning two-tone blend of soft bubblegum pink and shimmering ice-blue tips — a pastel masterpiece glowing with refinement. Thick, tapered branches display vivid pink tissue at the base, transitioning into frosty, pearl-blue extremities. Under actinic lighting, the coral radiates with gentle fluorescence, resembling frozen light wrapped in rose tones — refined, radiant, and unmistakably rare.
Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 8–9, pH 8.1–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Acroporidae
Lighting: High (strong PAR, ideally 300–400)
Water Flow: Strong, alternating
Placement: Upper rockwork
🧬 Overview
The Pink Ice Tenuis is pure SPS sophistication — a two-tone showpiece combining warm pastel hues with cool crystalline brilliance. Its naturally balanced gradient creates a soft, evolving luminosity throughout the day. Under quality lighting and stable conditions, the coral extends its polyps beautifully, giving the colony a fuzzy, glowing texture.
Highly sought after by SPS collectors, this Acropora tenuis offers an exceptional mix of rarity, elegance, and fluorescence — a striking centrepiece for advanced reef aquaria.
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Fully photosynthetic, though weekly micro-feeding with Reef Roids, coral powders, or phytoplankton can enhance colour depth and tissue growth. Maintain strong, stable parameters — especially alkalinity and trace elements (iron, manganese, potassium) — to preserve the coral’s delicate two-tone contrast.
📈 Optimal Parameters
| Parameter | Ideal Range |
|---|---|
| Alkalinity (dKH) | 8–9 |
| Calcium (Ca) | 430–460 ppm |
| Magnesium (Mg) | 1300–1400 ppm |
| Nitrate (NO₃) | 2–10 ppm |
| Phosphate (PO₄) | 0.02–0.08 ppm |
📍 Placement
Mount securely on upper rockwork with direct, turbulent flow. Avoid any shading to keep the contrast between the pink base and ice-blue tips vibrant and well-defined.
🌸❄️ Pink Ice Tenuis
Where warmth meets frost — a living crystal of pink fire and frozen light. The perfect fusion of elegance and intensity in one rare Acropora colony.
Each purchase provides a freshly cut frag from the exact colony pictured.