Acropora. Expert to keep, Typical PAR 200–350, high flow.
Rarity tier: rare, reviewed 2026-08.
A named Acropora strain from Top Shelf Aquatics, sold aquacultured and usually as an inch or less of frag. Its pigments shift hard with spectrum and with nutrients, which is why vendor photographs of it disagree with each other and why no colour is given here.
Photographed under blues, half the Acropora in the trade look like this one, and a coral whose colour moves with the lighting is the worst possible thing to buy from a blue photograph. Ask for a shot under white light before paying a rare-tier price, and treat a seller who will not take one as having answered the question. What you are buying is the lineage and the grow-out, so the useful questions are how long this frag has been off the mother colony and what it was grown under.
High light and strong random flow, up in the rockwork. Bill Murray is expert to keep at a typical PAR of 200–350 in high flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral rather than a measured requirement for this morph. Spectrum, how it was acclimated and the system it grew in all move it.
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced per frag and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One frag is a single cut on a plug, whatever its exact size. Colonies, mini colonies and mother stock are excluded rather than averaged in. Nothing on this page is for sale. Shops are typically asking $48 to $121 per frag, median $85, across 12 shops surveyed on 2026-09-07; the full sweep ran $32 to $140. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-09-07 it was in stock at 12 surveyed shops: aqua-vault.com, barrierreefaquariums.com, boomcorals.com, coralstop.com, lushcorals.com, palmettoreef.com, and 6 more.