Gorilla Nipple
Zoanthus, a zoanthid. Beginner to keep, typical PAR 75–150, moderate flow.
Collector tier: uncommon, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 3 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
Green skirt around a purple to blue disc, or on some stock a maroon skirt around a green disc, with a raised orange to red centre that sits proud of the disc, peachy on some specimens, with a purple ring on others.
Before you buy one
The raised centre is structural, not a colour, so it shows in a side-on photo and cannot be faked with lighting. That is the part to judge on: the warm centre runs anywhere from peach to deep red between specimens, so the colour alone will not settle it.
Keeping zoanthids
Low to middle rock, enough flow to keep detritus off the mat. Gorilla Nipple 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 Gorilla Nipple 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 $7 per polyp, median $5, across 3 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $4 to $9. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 3 surveyed shops: chiefreefcorals.com, reeftogo.com, vividaquariums.com.