Oregon Tort
Acropora tortuosa. Expert to keep, typical PAR 200–400, high flow.
An established line. The same coral under this name at any shop.
Collector tier: uncommon, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 12 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
Solid deep navy to royal blue throughout, with soft baby-blue corallites studding thick, irregularly forking branches. Widely called the bluest Acropora in the trade, and one of the oldest captive-propagated lines still going. The blue is uniform: there is no second colour in it.
Before you buy one
Long propagation means honest supply and honest prices. A high asking price on an Oregon Tort is a signal about the seller, not the coral. Green anywhere in the body means you are looking at a Cali Tort, which is the classic mix-up and a different line; this entry made exactly that mistake until it was checked.
Keeping Acropora
High light and strong random flow, up in the rockwork. Oregon Tort is expert to keep at a typical PAR of 200–400 in high flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
What Oregon Tort goes for
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 $79 per frag, median $64, across 12 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $10 to $100. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 12 surveyed shops: barrierreefaquariums.com, creamcitycorals.com, fishnerdcorals.com, piratesreefcorals.com, reeftogo.com, tckcorals.com, and 6 more.
Easily confused with
- Cali Tort: Green through the branches or toward the base, and faster, longer growth. The green can be faint under blues, so none visible is not proof of an Oregon.