Zoanthus, a zoanthid. Beginner to keep, Typical PAR 75–150, moderate flow.
Rarity tier: uncommon, reviewed 2026-08.
A blue to green mouth, then metallic rings of orange and yellow around it, then a purple skirt. The orange the name promises is in the rings; the skirt is the part people do not expect.
This is the entry that used to say orange skirt, and getting it backwards is the useful lesson. Orange zoas are the most-renamed group in the hobby and most of the names are unfalsifiable, but this one is not: the purple skirt around orange rings is the check, and a polyp with an orange skirt is a different coral whatever the bag says. It is an old, widely traded, fast-multiplying morph, so a seller has no reason to be cagey about showing you the colony it came off.
Low to middle rock, enough flow to keep detritus off the mat. Sunny D 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 $8 to $13 per polyp, median $13, across 6 shops surveyed on 2026-09-07; the full sweep ran $6 to $14. Asking prices are what sellers want, not what buyers paid. On 2026-09-07 it was in stock at 6 surveyed shops: reefflexsd.com, reefloungecoral.com, reefnation.com, reeftogo.com, underwater-wonders.com, whitlynaquatics.com.