Acropora tortuosa. Expert to keep, Typical PAR 200–400, high flow.
Rarity tier: uncommon, reviewed 2026-08.
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.
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.
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 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 $57 to $80 per frag, median $77, across 12 shops surveyed on 2026-09-07; the full sweep ran $10 to $110. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-09-07 it was in stock at 12 surveyed shops: barrierreefaquariums.com, creamcitycorals.com, fishnerdcorals.com, piecesoftheocean.com, piratesreefcorals.com, reeftogo.com, and 6 more.