My Top 9 Favourite Acropora Corals To Keep In Your Reef Aquarium

What are the best acropora corals for a reef tank? Well in this video, I tell you my top 9 acros from my SPS dominated Red Sea Reefer aquarium!
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0:00 Merlin's Staff
0:31 Strawberry Shortcake
1:01 EC Optimus Prime
1:47 Sunset mille
2:15 Blueberry Wine
2:39 European Pikachu
3:11 Pinky the Bear
3:40 Hairy Bear
4:10 Rainbow Loom

[@what_tha0485]

Im finding this guys videos so informative and entertainin…….im researching first before starting this hobby and ive been benchwatching his vids…..Love the content 👍🏽

[@davidleach4689]

My favorite acros are ora red planet, Jason fox haterade ,Oregon blue tort, little red Ferrari,copps teal staghorn,Aussie highlighter

[@user-bi1dj4qq2u]

Part 2,3,4,5… You get the gist😂. Heading back to China for 6 weeks, gonna miss KZbin and the show!

[@opethmike]

My favorite acropora are the SC orange passion, TGC cherry bomb, and yes, as ultra-common as it is, the og bali slimer

[@jlgarcia3700]

Hell yea!! Please make part 2 of this video. Thank you!!

[@way661]

Keep the videos coming! Im looking for a tank as we speak so im in the do my homework phase, watched pretty much all of your videos and find them very informative also helps you have a good sense of humour ‘sit back and watch its polyps hang out’ 😂 Keep up the good work Alex 👍🏻

[@chasencorals]

Part 2 please 👍

[@queencityreefs]

All great choices for sure 🔥💯✌

[@cvin13]

Salinity swings should be avoidable but the probes wear out so fast they're way too common. Happened to me as well

[@hakman239]

I found a nicrew reef light for soft and spa for under £28 nicrew classic led marine

[@o_9211]

Great results please now share your lights philosophy, spectrum par, etc. Thanks in advance.

[@eillyacostandinides3344]

Please part 2 and three and four for lps

[@andibandi1190]

how would you choose the lights, in order to make sure that these corals do well at a certain depth? Let‘s say 70-100 cm, I like tall aquariums.

[@ReefDork]

Kessil a500x is designed for deep tanks

[@tinchytarantula]

Here's one for all Reef keeper's what's better for a Reef Tank pulsating mode on a wavemaker or just the normal flow mode

[@ReefDork]

Anything that makes your coral polyps do this kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaqunXefjLWKraM

[@ilikeweirdfish7106]

Another great video. I have decided to give up on goniopora and alveopora (yes even dosing manganese didn’t work) and got my first acropora in trade for some cheato. No idea what it is though. Seems to be dark purple with cyan polyps but it’s far from happy yet.

[@mrmud]

I now only buy gonis that I know has been in someone elses tank for a year or more.

[@saml8119]

I think you have the pinky the bear correct. I have one and though not as bold of colors as yours it looks very similar

[@Gekko3s]

Very niceeeeeeee

[@bycyberguyy]

Would you mind elaborating on how your regal angelfish is comtributingbto reduced polyp extension? I was considering a regal angel myself and was under the impression they really only nipped at LPS or softies.

[@ReefDork]

It's not that he's contributing to reduced PE, he's almost certainly the only cause. Not uncommon from what I understand - you can always catch and rehome him if it doesn't work out for you though...

[@TomoBishBosh]

Nice video! Is the intro missing on this one? Apologies if I'm wrong!

[@ReefDork]

Not missing, just went without...

[@eillyacostandinides3344]

​@@ReefDorkperfect decision

[@nodrush80]

I cannot keep strawberry shortcake, the longest I've had one is a couple of years.

[@domenicolangella2397]

Me too!

[@OffMetaProfessor]

Hey Reef Dork, I'm wondering how your Reef Flare pro lights have been going I'm trying to decide on buying them or radions etc?.

[@ReefDork]

I like them - app is great and they're supposed to be mounted high which gives me excellent access to the tank.

[@oofpokemon5275]

Do you have tips for polyp extention on sps aside from stability? My montipora forest fire wont open it is growing. I dont have any non reef safe fish. Amd my other monti digitatas are open i got three on 3 diffrent places so thats not the problem.

[@ReefDork]

Water quality is everything but kalkwasser made a big difference to my SPS polyp extension

[@wiwjdnd1989]

Hi mate! I’m looking at getting a fluval evo 13.5 as my first reef tank however I just have a question about going on holiday, would the tank, corals and fish survive if I was to be away for 1-2 weeks? Cheers

[@ReefDork]

Probably, 2 weeks is a bit long especially if you're not feeding

[@macdaddynick1751]

Strawberry shortcake and Bali shortcake are completely different corals. Just a heads up.

[@ReefDork]

The one in the video is a Bali shortcake right? Is the strawberry the Aussie one?

[@J_ellis709]

Second installment, please.

[@Andrw67]

Hey, I also had a high salinity swing, some of my sps just stopped growing and lost color. What can I do about it? iIthink it has been half an year since then

[@ReefDork]

As long as you've corrected the salinity, there's not much more you can do beyond maintaining good water quality

[@Andrw67]

@@ReefDork I am struggling with maintaining kh, the rest are ok. Thanks for the reply

[@oofpokemon5275]

What par do your acroporas get?

[@ReefDork]

3-400 mostly

[@benmolloy3269]

Part 2…. 3 etc lol

[@EIY_Kumar]

No intro ?

[@ReefDork]

Nope, wanted to try getting stuck straight in