Green Bubble Coral
A variant of Bubble coral (Plerogyra sinuosa)
Representative Bubble coralphoto — a dedicated image of this exact morph isn't available yet.
A *Plerogyra sinuosa* whose inflated grape-like vesicles glow a translucent fluorescent green, the most sought-after of the standard color forms. The hard skeletal ridges often pick up a brighter neon line under blue light, while the bubbles stay a soft lime-to-emerald.
📜 Backstory
A wild-occurring pigment grade rather than a designer line, the green bubble is offered by most major LPS sellers — Tidal Gardens, Aqua Imports, Vivid Aquariums, Barrier Reef Aquariums — and as cultured stock through Biota and TerraReef. Green is widely noted in the trade as less common and more prized than the default cream/white, partly because Plerogyra's dense, slow-growing skeleton resists propagation. No single originator exists; it is a naturally occurring color form collected across the Indo-Pacific.
Keeper tips for this variant
Place low to mid-tank in gentle, indirect flow. The genus is fairly adaptable on lighting (it occurs on both shaded slopes and brighter shallows), so low-to-moderate light is fine — the real risk is flow: strong, direct current or contact with rockwork tears the fragile bubbles, so give it open sand or a flat ledge with room to inflate.