Hammer or Frogspawn?

[House of Laughter]

There was some discussion about this species of this euphylia in a recent FS thread. Some of the discussion was deleted because it occurred in a For Sale Thread and not appropriate for the topic.

Since some members felt this was a useful conversation/identification thread, I am re-posting the picture and link to the original FS thread.

http://www.manhattanreefs.com/forum/sale-trade/138380-super-colored-froggy-colonie-fs.html

I also put is as a poll thread for people to vote.

House

 

[Josh]

There is a whole continuum of animals that fit in between these two options, and I think it is one of those.

 

[tunicata]

Hm, on first look and even a more detailed look at all the individual tentacles I would say hammer.

Mainly because I do not see any tentacles that are multi-branched. I also see that most tentacles are hammer shaped (Though I know nothing about the genetics of this coral or why the owner believes it is whatever they think it is)

However, I do see some tentacles that are round tipped only, more like a torch or frog tip. Additionally, I have a frogspawn in my tank that when I first received it I thought "noooo, i have a hammer already" and then after more careful view of the tentacles saw that there were a few tentacles on each head that were multi-branched and looked appropriately 'frogspawn'.

So, meh.

 

[DRENALYN9]

Looks like a hammer to me with frogspawn colors. Nice piece

 

[House of Laughter]

I agree - but based on the shape of the heads (I'd love to see it retracted to get a glimpse of the skeleton) - my guess is that this is dominant as a froggie.

Voted

House

There is a whole continuum of animals that fit in between these two options, and I think it is one of those.

 

[Euroreefer]

hybrid? Some ends are round, some ends are hammers?

 

[lsingh]

Frogspawn

 

[skene]

Hammer.. :fishhit:

 

[CleanYourTank11]

It's definitely a hammer. Looks to me like euphyllia paraancora( branching hammer) as opposed to euphyllia ancora (base hammer). The branching tend to not have such hammer shaped tentacles. Either way it's a nice piece.

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[peteyboyny]

Hammer. I know there are variables but, compared to the FS i have (i have 3 different ones), it looks nothing like any of the ones i have.

 

[DRENALYN9]

Petey do yiu have pics of the coral closed?

 

[DRENALYN9]

Oops I thought you said you had one like this. My bad

 

[ruha456]

Branching hammer I have one with 3 heads

 

[Deanos]

Hammer

 

[jmmj13902]

Hammerhead for sure.

 

[mshur]

Fellas,
This is rare coral , some heads have hammer heads some froggy.
I have this colonies for couple of years now and always grow different way- no clue how
Last night i looked again and looks like froggy/ hammy coral
I also cut one head with looking froggy and one hammy glue them together on the rock to see what happens


Mike

 

[tomtoothdoc]

i do also have a few of these froggy/hammer combo looking thing......frammer/hroggy?...just doesn't exactly roll off your tongue though.....lol.:scratchch

 

[kres1024]

Here is some more pics of the hammer/froggy

 

[tomtoothdoc]

let's just call it kres picked up a great buy pretty euphyllia!!!!

 

[peteyboyny]

Petey do yiu have pics of the coral closed?

No Sir. I don't have one like that. That's the only thing I based my opinion on, the 3 different ones that I keep. Its all good...we all misread posts. Lol.
This is interesting convo topic here. Cool Beans and cheese!