Orange Anthelia
A variant of Anthelia (Waving Hand Polyps) (Anthelia glauca)
Representative Anthelia (Waving Hand Polyps)photo — a dedicated image of this exact morph isn't available yet.
An uncommon orange-tinted Anthelia, where the polyps and stalks carry warm orange tones instead of the usual pink, blue, or brown. The orange form is among the harder Anthelia colors to find in the trade.
📜 Backstory
Orange Anthelia turns up at a few specialty shops listed simply as "Anthelia sp. Orange" (for example, Aquariumprime) and is far less commonly offered than the pink and blue forms. It is a wild-derived color variant with origin debated rather than a named aquacultured line, and it has no documented single-source designer lineage. Its scarcity relative to other colors is what pushes it toward the rarer end for this otherwise common, weedy soft coral.
Keeper tips for this variant
Keep under moderate light with gentle variable flow; like other Anthelia it spreads readily across the rock, so leave a buffer zone to other corals.