TIA Frosted Blueberry: A True Frosted-Blue Acropora
The TIA Frosted Blueberry Acropora mother colony — the coral your frag is cut from — under Actinic Radion Mobius lighting. Colors shift under different lighting; each piece is cut to order.
What is TIA Frosted Blueberry?
TIA Frosted Blueberry is an aquacultured Acropora with a true frosted blue that is genuinely rare in SPS — not a washed-out pastel, but a rich blue that holds up even under strong reef lighting. The color developed over a long stretch in TIA's system, and the mature mother colony is fast-growing and thriving in the display.
The story
Frosted Blueberry earns its place on one hard-to-find trait: true blue in SPS. This isn't a faded pastel — it's a rich frosted blue that holds even under strong reef lighting, and it developed over a long stretch growing in TIA's system. The mother colony is mature, fast-growing, and thriving in the display, healthy enough that fresh-cut frags usually start encrusting their base within about a week — a good sign of a well-established aquaculture lineage.
Care requirements
Care level: Intermediate to Advanced — for reef keepers with stable, established SPS systems.
| Parameter | Target |
|---|---|
| Lighting (PAR) | Moderate to High, PAR 250–400; strong blue-spectrum light maintains the blue coloration (deepest under blue-heavy spectrum) |
| Flow | Moderate to Strong; random/turbulent circulation preferred |
| Placement | Upper half of a mature reef, where stable parameters and strong light support SPS growth |
| Temperature | 76–79 °F |
| Salinity | 1.025–1.026 |
| Alkalinity | 8–9 dKH |
| Calcium | 400–450 ppm |
| Magnesium | 1300–1400 ppm |
Reef safe.
Buying a Frosted Blueberry frag
Every piece is cut to order from the mother colony. After we cut your frag, we send you a video of it, and we recommend allowing about 14 days of heal time before expecting full recovery. Every order is covered by TIA's 3-day live-arrival guarantee, and TIA has grown and named collector corals since 2008.
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Frequently asked questions
What makes TIA Frosted Blueberry's color unusual? True blue is genuinely rare in SPS, and Frosted Blueberry shows a rich frosted blue rather than a washed-out pastel. The color holds up even under strong reef lighting and sits deepest under a blue-heavy spectrum. It developed over a long stretch growing in TIA's system.
How much light does TIA Frosted Blueberry need? Moderate to high light, PAR 250–400. Strong blue-spectrum reef lighting maintains the blue coloration, and the blue reads deepest under a blue-heavy spectrum. Place it in the upper half of a mature reef where the light is strong and parameters stay stable.
Is TIA Frosted Blueberry beginner-friendly? No — it is rated Intermediate to Advanced, for reef keepers with stable, established SPS systems. Target 76–79 °F, salinity 1.025–1.026, alkalinity 8–9 dKH, calcium 400–450 ppm, and magnesium 1300–1400 ppm, with moderate-to-strong turbulent flow.
What do the listing photos show, and how does the frag ship? The photos show the mother colony this frag is cut from. It is a cut-to-order piece: cut from the established mother colony grown in TIA's display, then healed and encrusting before shipping under TIA's 3-day live-arrival guarantee.