Bam Bam
Zoanthus, a zoanthid. Beginner to keep, typical PAR 75–150, moderate flow.
Also sold as Bam Bam Orange.
Collector tier: uncommon, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 17 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
Bright orange skirt and an orange to pink centre, with a deep blue to purple body between them carrying rings of blue. Three colour zones rather than two, and the blue-purple band is the one that identifies it.
Before you buy one
Another name in the crowded orange field, and the band in the middle is what saves it from being unfalsifiable. Orange skirt against an orange centre with nothing in between is a different polyp. Vendors also sell it as 'Bam Bam Orange', described as orange with soft blue rings, and orange zoa names sit close enough together that a photograph beats a label. Buy from someone who can show the colony it was cut from.
Keeping zoanthids
Low to middle rock, enough flow to keep detritus off the mat. Bam Bam is beginner to keep at a typical PAR of 75–150 in moderate flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
What Bam Bam goes for
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced per polyp and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One polyp, so a ten-polyp frag is divided by ten. Listings that do not state the count are dropped rather than assumed. Nothing on this page is for sale. Shops are typically asking $5 to $13 per polyp, median $6, across 17 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $3 to $50. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 17 surveyed shops: bluewaterreefaquatics.com, coralsanonymous.com, cornbredcorals.com, discountcoral.com, fishnerdcorals.com, ghicorals.com, and 11 more.