Saltwater
Valida acropora
Acropora valida
Acroporidae
Facts
Care
- Type
- Small-polyp stony coral (SPS)
- Light
- High
- Flow
- Strong
- Placement
- Middle of the rock, High on the rock
- Difficulty
- Demanding
Water values
Range
Seen here
Seen in the wild in American Samoa, Australia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories, Guam, and 28 more countries.
More about the species
Description
Acropora valida is a species of acroporid coral found in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the southwestern, northwestern and northern Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the central Indo-Pacific, Australia, southeast Asia, Japan, the East China Sea, the oceanic western, central and far eastern Pacific Ocean, the northwestern Hawaiian Islands and Johnston Atoll. It occurs in tropical shallow reefs in a variety of reef habitats, at depths of 1 to 15 metres (3 ft 3 in to 49 ft 3 in).
Other names
In other languages
- Staghorn coral
