Best Acropora for Money

Rrwilson1223 · Jul 26, 2020

I’m looking to add a few nice Acropora pieces to my Reefer 750. Recently redid the rock scape and have more room. What are some of your favorites? Where did you get them?

All info and pictures are appreciated!

CCauthers · Jul 26, 2020

Depends on the budget, but I really like strawberry shortcakes, which are pretty cheap, as well as some of the more exotic sunset millis and, one of my all time favs, Vivid's Confetti as well as the CB Malificent

WIReefer · Jul 26, 2020

I love my Pink Floyd prolly my favorite acro, but I do love millis

BigKid4788 · Jul 26, 2020

Pink lemonade- most yellow corals cost more than the pink lemonade. Good grower, classic

ycnibrc · Jul 26, 2020

stag horn hardy fast growth and the shape is classic reef coral

Waynerock · Jul 26, 2020

You can definitely get some of the more exotic pieces for a fraction of the cost on here. Got a SC orange passion and ASD rainbow for a steal and some of my best looking pieces

Nick Steele · Jul 26, 2020

I love a good colored PC Rainbow acro. I love the actual rainbow look (green/yellow/red) and from what I read is that it takes lower light for that to happen. I’ll find out in the next month or so how try that is!

Rrwilson1223 · Jul 26, 2020

Lots of great ideas! Thank you!

Currently looking to add 3/4 more frags. The Pink Floyd, Orange Passion, PC Rainbow, Pink Lemonade and vivid confetti are all great choices.

Also looking at the Walt Disney’s and the ASD Rainbow Milli.

DivingTheWorld · Jul 27, 2020

Good list. Another good one is JF Fox Flame. Old school coral, but looks awesome and not expensive.

Xanthurum · Jul 27, 2020

I will say that my Maleficent is pretty impressive. Very red, and yet it has some green and even has some blue but overall It is very red. Might I suggest epicaquaculture.com they have most of the corals listed in his thread at a great price. They even have several not named in this thread but are stunning none the less.

Rrwilson1223 · Jul 27, 2020

I ended up going with the following:

ASD Rainbow Milli
Tyree Pink Lemonade
CC Voodoo Magik

Really like the Maleficent and will be adding it in the future. Along with a Disney jr.

Plenty of room for others later. Went with Cherry Corals for this one.

Daniel@R2R · Aug 7, 2020

Bumping this up for more input

PicassoClown04 · Aug 7, 2020

I feel like the red dragon (or dragons in general) is super underrated. Very cheap sps and likes low light. Nice for getting some branching action lower down in the tank.

It was actually coral of the week a while back. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/coral-of-the-week-red-dragon-acropora.94752/

TopShelfAquatics · Aug 7, 2020

These are some of our favorites!

Fruity Pebbles

Tesla

Garf Bonsai

Princess Peach

Flame Tip Microclados

bct15 · Aug 7, 2020

Some of my favorite acros, which also have very good growth rates and can be found for fairly low cost:

red dragon
Pc rainbow
Needle in haystack
Superman table

Ashish Patel · Apr 2, 2022

I like this thread. Anyone else can share some more nice acro frags? Trying to come up with a list.. Especially once that look Good in real life... too many vendors creating silly name and taking them with an orange filter - dishonest marketing if you ask me. I still think pink Floyd and pink lemonade smoke mostly any hyped tenius out there

TangGang · Apr 3, 2022

There are so many beautiful acros that are not extremely expensive. Some of my personal favorites include ASD rainbow milli, ASD Jesus tort, Oregon tort, cali tort, BC Rainbows Army, BC Spainbow, Walt Disney, FF Red Robin, RRC pink caddy (price has come down so much), Red Planet, Hawkins Echinata, JF Tnt anacro, and many more. The great thing about acros is that you have so many options for color, so its better to decide what color and growth pattern you want in which location in the tank, and then find the right Acro to fit your needs.

Ashish Patel · Apr 3, 2022

There are few I really want like vivid pink passion, BC bleed tree, CC disney jr, Ce ice agre granulosa.,
Never seen them in person but I think I have to have them.

Reefahholic · Jul 2, 2022

So is it:

CC Voodoo Magik,
CC Voodoo Magick
CC Magic Voodoo

Which one is it? I see all these different names. Is this the same exact coral, several species, or different vendor names?

What is the original and correct name for this piece so I can label it. I just picked it up and here is what the guy called it and how he spelled it.: