Acropora tenuis. Expert to keep, typical PAR 250–400, moderate to high flow.
Also sold as TGC Cherry Bomb, Cherry Bomb Acro.
A loose trade name. Sellers use it loosely, so trust the photo over the label.
Collector tier: uncommon, reviewed 2026-08.
An Acropora tenuis with red polyps on a blue to blue-grey body and blue at the growing tips. With the polyps out the colony reads red over blue, and that pairing is the identification.
Read the body under the red. Green under red polyps is a Strawberry Shortcake, and a green to olive table with red corallites is a Red Planet. The colours shops describe are under blue light, and the red is reported to wash toward pink or green, so a faded frag may be placement rather than a different coral. TGC is on most labels, but no source this entry could read expands it or names who first sold it, so treat the prefix as a label rather than a lineage.
High light and strong random flow, up in the rockwork. Cherry Bomb is expert to keep at a typical PAR of 250–400 in moderate to high flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
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.