Purple Tip Elegance
A variant of Elegance coral (Catalaphyllia jardinei)
Representative Elegance coralphoto — a dedicated image of this exact morph isn't available yet.
Green-based elegance with purple to lavender tentacle tips — a look that was especially popular in the 1990s and early 2000s.
📜 Backstory
A wild-collected color variety, not a named designer line. Offered broadly across the trade (for example Reefs4Less lists 'Elegance Coral: Purple Tip - Australia'). Reef Builders describes purple tip as a long-standing, formerly very popular color form whose demand has since shifted toward warmer gold and orange tips.
Keeper tips for this variant
Sand bed, gentle flow, moderate light; the purple tips pop under heavier blue/actinic lighting. Allow space for the inflated polyp and its stinging sweepers.
Other LPS Corals variants
Australian Elegance (Aussie)Gold/Toxic Green EleganceRainbow / Ultra EleganceWall / Branching EleganceIndo Elegance (Brown/Green)Aussie EleganceGold EleganceRainbow EleganceGold Tip EleganceOrange Tip ElegancePink Tip Australian EleganceRed Tip Aussie EleganceToxic Green EleganceBlue Tip EleganceChernobyl Sunrise EleganceUltra Metallic Green Elegance