Rainbow Goniopora
Goniopora, an LPS coral. Intermediate to keep, typical PAR 75–150, low to moderate flow.
Also sold as Rainbow Goni.
Collector tier: rare, where the trade ranks it from common through grail. In stock at 5 surveyed shops on 2026-10-19.
Flowerpot coral with long, wispy 24-tentacle polyps carrying more than one pigment. The tentacle count is the identification and it is countable in a photograph.
Before you buy one
Goniopora had a reputation as unkeepable that came from wild-collected stock; aquacultured lines are far more reliable. Ask which you are buying. Count the tentacles before anything else: Alveopora is sold as a flowerpot too, has TWELVE shorter, fatter tentacles rather than 24 long ones. Alveopora is widely regarded as the easier of the two, though that is hobby experience rather than a settled fact and an aquacultured Goniopora can be very reliable, so the mix-up is not the disaster it is sometimes made out to be.
Keeping LPS of this kind
Sandbed or low rock with room around it, and it takes food. Rainbow Goniopora is intermediate to keep at a typical PAR of 75–150 in low to moderate flow. A typical starting range for this type of coral, not measured on this one.
Full care notes for LPS of this kind
What Rainbow Goniopora goes for
No verified sales yet. A range publishes once 3 dated, checkable records from 3 different sources exist, priced per frag and reported as a median, with what shops ask kept separate from what buyers paid. One frag is a single cut on a plug, whatever its exact size. Colonies, mini colonies and mother stock are excluded rather than averaged in. Nothing on this page is for sale. Shops are typically asking $70 to $86 per frag, median $80, across 5 shops surveyed on 2026-10-19; the full sweep ran $64 to $150. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-10-19 it was in stock at 5 surveyed shops: coralexplorers.com, holygrailcorals.com, luckycorals.com, reefexclusive.com, reefprostore.com.