Zoanthus, a zoanthid. Beginner to keep, Typical PAR 75–150, moderate flow.
Also sold as Bam Bam Orange.
Rarity tier: uncommon, reviewed 2026-08.
Bright orange skirt and a green mouth, 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.
Another name in the crowded orange field, and the band in the middle is what saves it from being unfalsifiable. Green mouth against orange skirt with nothing in between is a different polyp. Worth knowing that vendors also sell a plain 'Bam Bam Orange' that runs orange and soft blue with no green mouth at all, so the two names sit close enough that a photograph beats a label. Buy from someone who can show the colony it was cut from.
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 rather than a measured requirement for this morph. Spectrum, how it was acclimated and the system it grew in all move it.
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 $12 per polyp, median $7, across 18 shops surveyed on 2026-09-07; the full sweep ran $3 to $50. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-09-07 it was in stock at 18 surveyed shops: bluewaterreefaquatics.com, coralsanonymous.com, cornbredcorals.com, creamcitycorals.com, discountcoral.com, fishnerdcorals.com, and 12 more.