Best Acropora for Money

[Rrwilson1223]

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]

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]

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

 

[BigKid4788]

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

 

[ycnibrc]

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

 

[Waynerock]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Xanthurum]

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]

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]

Bumping this up for more input

 

[footgal]

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]

These are some of our favorites!

Fruity Pebbles

Tesla

Garf Bonsai

Princess Peach

Flame Tip Microclados

 

[bct15]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.:

 

[mtraylor]

Check out fraghouse corals. They have great deals on corals. Probably the best bang for buck you will find.