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Limited Edition
AA Frog Skin Acro
An Atlanta Aquarium Original
Limited Edition AA Frog Skin Acropora Branch Closeup Image.
Incredible sky blue and forest green pigment combination.
The green pigment may be a unique grafting called frog skin.
Exotically colored sky blue corallites can be surrounded by green.
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A very unique colored Acropora that prefers low to moderate light levels. The AA Frog Skin has a forest green pigment that appears painted across base branch areas. The green contrasts strongly with the sky blue corallites. Branch end areas can be solid sky blue, while middle to lower branch areas have the green skin surrounding sky blue corallites. The coral is called Frog Skin because of the unique green pigmentation that appears to be some new type of grafting. It is very possible that this coral acquired the green while in captivity.

This coral was acquired during a one week layover in Atlanta. We were returning from our first Virginia Beach coral show and decided to setup shop in Atlanta for a few days. Well a few days turned into a week. Our seed came directly from Rit at the Atlanta Aquarium reef store (atlaquarium96@aol.com). Rit acquired the original colony from an Indonesia tranship coral order in 2010. It was transferred to his new store in 2011. Rit recommends weak to moderate light levels for LED. Moderate lighting under halides and T5 HO.

Steve Tyree is maintaining a seed section of this coral for Reeffarmers.com in an 8 foot raceway Gyre BiZonal system. This system is naturally filtered with a semi-cryptic zone and a reef flat exposed zone. In Steve's captive reef the coral is positioned to receive weak light levels from a 400 watt SE 20,000 K metal halide. The first edition fragment of this coral was sold for $275 retail on our Buy It Now web page.

Limited Edition AA Frog Skin Acropora Branch Closeup Image.
Another closeup image showing the green frog skin pigmentation.
Note that polyp tentacles can also be blue or green colored.
Near tips tentacles are blue, while in lower areas they are green.
 Image Copyright © 2013 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.
Copyright © 2013 by Reeffarmers All Rights Reserved.
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