Designer Names:
Common Names: TriColor
Taxonomic Status:
Data Quality Indicators:
Type: SPS
Family: Acroporidae
Genus: Acropora
Group: A. nasuta
Species: cerealis
Similar To: A. plantaginea, A. nasuta, which has nariform radial corallites but is corymbose, and A. kimbeensis, which has much smaller corallites and finer branches.
Discovered By: Dana, 1846
Origin: Pacific Ocean
Habitat: Upper Reef slopes
Distribution:
Abundance: Common
Growth: medium grower
Difficulty Level: medium
Light: Strong (T5 and/or Metal Halides prefered)
Flow: high / medium
Aggressive: Low
Color Forms: Mostly pale brown, cream or white, with purple, pink, blue or cream branch tips.

Other Notes: Best if kept in the middle to upper portion of the tank where it can get maximum light and moderate to high water flow. If your tank has very high intensity lighting, it is best to place any new coral on the bottom of the tank for a week or two to acclimatize it to your tank lighting conditions before moving it to it’s final location.

Wallace Table: 01051011600001222212111
Branching Formation: Around a single axial corallie
Branching Orders: tertiary or later orders not present
Colony Outline: determinate from a focused origin
Predominate Outline: Corymbose (incl. Caespitose)
Branch Diameter: radial-dominated
Coenosteum: same on and between radial corallites
Radial Corallite Coenosteum: reticulo-costate
Between radials coenosteum: reticultate
Spinule shape: laterally flattened
Radial corallite sizes: one size or graded
Radial corallite inner wall: developed
Radial corallite shape: nariform
Radial corallite openings: elongate
Axial:radial ratio: many radials (more than 10 per axial)
Axial corallite outer diameter: small (1.0-2.9mm)
Radial Corallites: medium
Branch Thickness: medium thick (5.0-9.9 mm)
Branch taper (below growing tip): terete (no taper)
Max. branch length (terminal branches): medium (50-99.9 mm)
Radial crowding: radial crowed, touching
Axial corallite synapticular rings: three
Skeletal porosity: radial walls not porous
Radial corallite synapticular rings: three