Weird hammer coral or some sort of torch?

[Jonathan lee]

Got this head of tank cultured ‘bicolour hammer’ from a home based coral aquaculture guy. I swear it has tips like a hammer but they’re small, thin and are so long? Like 1-2 inches long. Anyone have a hammer like this? Its like a hammer had fun with torch lol. It does not open and sway like my torches btw.

 

[damsels are not mean]

I think it is a hammer if the tips are not little balls. There is much variation in corals and it can sometimes be hard or impossible to identify them without genetic testing or looking at dead skeletons or something.

 

[Randy’s reef]

That’s a torch from the looks of the pic, if you’re worried the tenticles aren’t as long as regular torch it can be because it’s a cristata.

 

[Jonathan lee]

I think it is a hammer if the tips are not little balls. There is much variation in corals and it can sometimes be hard or impossible to identify them without genetic testing or looking at dead skeletons or something.

The tips are very small hammer coral shaped tips. Theres a slight elongation to it. Its like a mix of torch and hammer lol

 

[Jonathan lee]

That’s a torch from the looks of the pic, if you’re worried the tenticles aren’t as long as regular torch it can be because it’s a cristata.

Heres a pic of the mother colony. The tips are actually like mini hammers. They have some elongation to them.

 

[OfficeReefer]

It looks to be a torch. There are hammers beside the colony sample, however.

 

[Jonathan lee]

It looks to be a torch. There are hammers beside the colony sample, however.

You see the hammer on the left of the mother colony. With those small hammer tips. The mother colony has the same tips, but with longer thinner tentacles?? If you look close you can see the hammer tips. Zoomed in pic below. Pic of its sweepers too. Just wonder why it has longer thin tentacles unlike than other hammers. I know theres hammers with longer tentacles but they’re fatter. This is alot thinner than my torches too.

 

[1ocean]

Torch....

 

[GlassMunky]

This thread makes me sad with all the bad information.
To whoever said it might be a cristata, no it’s not. The shape of the polyps are way different.

it’s just a normal hammer coral.
This variety was extremely common a few years back before the giant euphyllia craze kicked in and everyone had to have special names for each type. now it’s not as common because everyone wants the expensive named variety’s.

 

[Jonathan lee]

This thread makes me sad with all the bad information.
To whoever said it might be a cristata, no it’s not. The shape of the polyps are way different.

it’s just a normal hammer coral.
This variety was extremely common a few years back before the giant euphyllia craze kicked in and everyone had to have special names for each type. now it’s not as common because everyone wants the expensive named variety’s.

Yea i think its a hammer not a torch too. When its more inflated it looks like a hammer with longer tentacles. It is a older hammer from many years ago. It has been aquacultured for years in the guys tank.

 

[Dburr1014]

I say hammer also. The first pic, way up top, I thought Frammer. But it was blurry.
New pics look like normal hammer.

 

[Reckless]

I was sold a “baby torch” but this thread makes me think it’s a hammer coral. Tentacles are short but the purple tips don’t really have the hammer look. I was cheap and I like the color.

 

[ganja-goat]

I was sold a “baby torch” but this thread makes me think it’s a hammer coral. Tentacles are short but the purple tips don’t really have the hammer look. I was cheap and I like the color.

Did you ever find out? Mine looks exactly the same and it was sold to me as a hammer coral