Limited Edition
Acanthastrea sp.
Agent Orange

While in captivity the coral has also added many spots or areas with different pigments. The closeup images show that the coral has orange, pink, reddish, blue, yellow and green. This coral is called Agent Orange because of its brilliant orange coloration. Overall however it appears to be a brilliant multicolored Acanthastrea subechinata species of stony coral. The corals coloration is similar to the Limited Edition Echinophyllia aspera, but instead of a green primary color, Agent Orange has a brilliant orange primary color. There are also numerous patches of pink and some patches of blue, which the LE Echinophyllia aspera does not have.

Steve Tyree is maintaining a farmed section of this coral for reeffarmers.com in one of his 125 gallon naturally filtered Tri-Zonal Reef Aquariums. In Steve's captive reef the coral is positoned to recieve moderate to weak light under a 400 watt 20,000 K Radium Metal Halide. The price is currently $40 per single polyp fragment.

When we began selling this coral there were only two known people within the entire U.S. who have this agent orange multi-color morph. John Lucero has the original colony. John provided Reeffarmers with its First Edition fragment and the Seed Colony which will grow additional Limited Editions. John may occasionally auction fragments of this Agent Orange coral online. In the past few years however numerous brilliant orange and other acans have been imported.