Acropora Monticulosa是我们在礁石上最喜欢的珊瑚之一，它的大小变成了巨大的尺寸，当您在野外看到它时，它或多或少看起来像巨大的生活水晶。由于其尺寸和温和的颜色，它是水族馆最不合适或理想的珊瑚之一，但这并不排除我们从远处享受它。
在我们能想到的所有石质珊瑚中，没有其他物种看起来像是分形的，而是摩洛哥山植物。实际上，Monticulosa看起来非常像一个分形，以至于您可能会误以为有人在海洋中丢下了一块分形花椰菜，并将其颜色为棕色。
Monticulosa Acros are almost always a light brown, occasionally you can find specimens with the lightest pink tip, but these are rare and few between. Unlike many thin-branching species of stony corals.A. monticulosagrows so massively that there is simply no way you’ll ever be fragging it with your hand, using clippers, or anything but a hammer and chisel.
A. monticulosais so massive at the base, and sharp at the ends, when we think of corals sinking from striking the reef, this is the species that comes to mind as breaching even the thickest wooden ship hulls. If you were to wipe out surfing on a reef, you would rather run into cat’s paw acropora or stout-branchingPocilloporathan this species as at least the former might break and give after a certain amount of force, whereas monticulosa is sure to simply strip away your delicate flesh.
Almost no other species of Acro looks quite like the pyramidal shaped branches ofAcropora Monticulosa. Sometimes you might see a particularly thick branchingA. gemmifera,but next toMonticulosathe branches of gemmifera are particularly anemic.
Even if you wanted to growAcropora Monticulosain a home aquarium, it only grows in shallow, wave-washed reef zones so you would have to pound it with so much flow and light that hardly no other corals could survive alongside it. This species is quite a looker when it gets to large size so it would be particularly well suited for display in large public aquarium reef tanks.
