🪸❤️💚 Red & Green Acropora hyacinthus – Frag WYSIWYG

Premium SPS Collector Coral

🔹 Quick Stats

Care Level: Advanced Temperament: Peaceful Colour Form: Striking red and green colouration, combining vibrant red pigmentation with contrasting green tones across its distinctive tabling structure. The intricate arrangement of delicate branches and corallites creates exceptional depth and texture, while the contrasting colours provide a spectacular visual effect under balanced reef lighting. 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 300–450) Water Flow: Strong, Random and Turbulent Placement: Upper Reef Type: WYSIWYG – Frag

🧬 Overview

The Red & Green Acropora hyacinthus is a spectacular SPS coral admired for its vibrant contrasting colouration and distinctive horizontal tabling growth pattern. Combining beautiful red and green pigmentation with an intricate branching structure, this coral creates an impressive architectural feature in established reef aquariums.

Unlike many vertically branching Acropora varieties, Acropora hyacinthus is particularly renowned for its ability to develop broad, flattened, table-like colonies. As it matures, its branches extend horizontally, forming intricate networks of closely arranged branchlets that create exceptional depth and visual complexity.

The combination of red and green tones makes this variety particularly attractive, offering striking contrast against blue, purple, and yellow SPS corals.

Under appropriate lighting and stable water conditions, its pigmentation can become increasingly pronounced, highlighting the delicate structure and natural beauty of this remarkable tabling Acropora.

Due to its demanding requirements for lighting, water movement, and chemical stability, this coral is best suited to experienced reef keepers with established SPS systems.

Selected for:

• • Striking red and green colouration

• • Distinctive horizontal tabling growth pattern

• • Intricate branching structure and delicate corallites

• • Exceptional visual contrast in SPS aquariums

• • Premium WYSIWYG collector frag

🍽️ Care & Feeding

Although primarily photosynthetic, Acropora hyacinthus can benefit from access to fine suspended foods and naturally occurring plankton, supporting healthy tissue development, pigmentation, and skeletal growth.

Recommended feeding:

• • Reef Roids and fine powdered SPS coral foods

• • Zooplankton-based coral foods

• • Amino acid supplements when appropriate

• • Naturally occurring plankton and suspended organic particles

Maintaining stable alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium concentrations is essential for healthy skeletal development and consistent growth.

Balanced nitrate and phosphate levels are equally important, as excessively low nutrient concentrations can negatively affect tissue health and pigmentation.

As a relatively demanding Acropora species, A. hyacinthus is particularly sensitive to sudden fluctuations in alkalinity, temperature, lighting, and water chemistry.

Consistent aquarium conditions are therefore essential for long-term success.

📈 Optimal Parameters

📍 Placement

Position the Red & Green Acropora hyacinthus in the upper regions of an established reef aquarium, where it can receive high lighting intensity and strong, alternating water movement.

Random, turbulent flow is particularly important for tabling Acropora species, helping to maintain efficient water circulation across their broad horizontal structures and preventing detritus accumulation between densely arranged branches.

Allow generous horizontal space for future colony development, as mature Acropora hyacinthus colonies can form extensive table-like structures that may shade neighbouring corals.

Avoid direct, concentrated water jets and sudden changes in lighting intensity. Gradual acclimatisation is recommended when introducing the frag into a new aquarium.

Stable water chemistry, strong water movement, and appropriate lighting will encourage healthy growth, vibrant pigmentation, and the development of its characteristic tabling structure.

🪸❤️💚 Red & Green Acropora hyacinthus – Frag WYSIWYG

A spectacular WYSIWYG Acropora hyacinthus frag featuring striking red and green colouration and the distinctive horizontal growth pattern of this remarkable tabling SPS coral. With its intricate branching structure, vibrant contrasting pigmentation, and exceptional architectural appeal, this premium collector coral is an outstanding addition to established SPS-dominated reef aquariums.