Sunset Montipora
Montipora. Intermediate to keep, typical PAR 150–250, moderate to high flow.
Also sold as Sunset Monti.
Collector tier: uncommon, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 20 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
Names that contain “Sunset Montipora” and are not this coral: Mystic Sunset. They are separate corals traded at their own prices, so read the animal rather than the label.
Intense orange flesh carrying bright fluorescent green polyps across the whole surface, and those polyps run about twice the size of an ordinary Montipora's. Primarily encrusting, plating only as it matures. Polyp size against the orange is the identification.
Before you buy one
The oversized green polyps are visible on any healthy piece, so a small frag shows the trait as well as a colony does; this entry used to say the opposite. A fast encruster that will take a rock if you let it, so place it where spreading is welcome.
Keeping Montipora
Encrusting or plating, and it will take the rock it is given. Sunset Montipora is intermediate to keep at a typical PAR of 150–250 in moderate to high flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
What Sunset Montipora 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 $28 to $40 per frag, median $30, across 20 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $23 to $49. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 20 surveyed shops: barrierreefaquariums.com, battlecorals.com, calicoralconnect.com, cherrycorals.com, coralstop.com, cornbredcorals.com, and 14 more.
Easily confused with
- Setosa: Orange too, but smooth and shiny with few polyps, and those polyps match the orange instead of glowing green.