Pink Tip Australian Elegance
A variant of Elegance coral (Catalaphyllia jardinei)
Representative Elegance coralphoto — a dedicated image of this exact morph isn't available yet.
The classic and most widely available form: a green or tan oral disc with tentacles ending in soft pink tips.
📜 Backstory
A widely traded wild-collected Australian color form, offered by most major LPS vendors. Tidal Gardens lists it as 'Exquisite Pink Tip Australian Elegance' and Queen City Corals as 'Aussie Pink Tip Elegance'; Reef Builders notes pink tip is the most common color. It is the baseline against which rarer tip colors are priced.
Keeper tips for this variant
Rest it on the sand bed in low-to-medium flow under moderate light. It is the most commonly traded elegance form, but elegance as a group is not a true beginner coral — buy a healthy, fully inflated specimen and watch for tissue recession.