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[ReefingDaily]

Hello,

I'm both new to the hobby and this forum so please let me know if this isn't the correct place to post this! Anyway's, I recently picked up two frags from my local LFS. I was told that one of the frags I got was a branching Indo hammer. The only thing is that every time I see photos or videos of hammers the tentacles seem to more bunched up, whereas mine seem to be fully spread out. Could they be telling me something?

The next frag is an Acan of some sort, but I have no idea the exact type. It looks similar to a lord hulk acan, but I would like to know what it actually is!

Thanks in advance!

 

[gabeb]

The first is definitely a torch coral. I am unsure of the exact acan

 

[ReefingDaily]

The first is definitely a torch coral. I am unsure of the exact acan

The first is definitely a torch coral. I am unsure of the exact acan

Really?! So maybe it’s a branching Indo torch?

 

[VSVP bet]

I would disagree, I think it is a bicolor hammer coral. It has both green and pink tips. Sometimes hammers branch off and lose the 'hammer tip'. I am unsure what causes this, (flow, alk, or something else), someone with more euphyllia experience may weigh in. There are several tentacles that still have the hammer however, leading me to believe it is not a torch.

The second is micromussa lordhowensis, a green species, not sure of the vendor name.

And welcome to R2R.

 

[Auto-pilot]

Hello,

I'm both new to the hobby and this forum so please let me know if this isn't the correct place to post this! Anyway's, I recently picked up two frags from my local LFS. I was told that one of the frags I got was a branching Indo hammer. The only thing is that every time I see photos or videos of hammers the tentacles seem to more bunched up, whereas mine seem to be fully spread out. Could they be telling me something?

The next frag is an Acan of some sort, but I have no idea the exact type. It looks similar to a lord hulk acan, but I would like to know what it actually is!

Thanks in advance!

its an Aussie Acan, They are really pretty and open up at night with feeding tentacles. I would disagree with the torch coral, usually they have longer tentacles. looks more like a small frogspawn or hammer

 

[Hemmdog]

Indo bi-color hammer

Grade B green acan, lol.
Not all corals have fancy names

Both are really cool though. This acan was my 3rd coral I ever had. Started from a single head. The bicolor hammer I’ve had about 4 months, started from basically nothing, and my Flame angel at it to nothing in my coral qt... lol. But it’s back alive and doing great in my main display.

 

[ReefingDaily]

Thanks for all of the responses! I was beginning to question what the guy from the LFS said as it seems that all the hammers I look at seem to have Much more pronounced hammer tips and the tentacles seem to be so much closer. All of the torches I’ve seen seem to have super long tentacles (probably my next purchase lol). I have them at the bottom in the sand with minimal flow from the hydor water deflector so I wonder why they’re so extended. It’s just super hard to tell because they’re so small compared to everyone else’s matured colonies.

Anyways, going to run a full panel of test to see what’s going on. I just want to make sure that I’m doing anything wrong!

 

[homer1475]

Hard to say whether its a torch or hammer. It does not have the typical "hammer head" tips(the reason they are called hammers), but we also know sometimes the tips get deformed and they do not look like little ball pean hammers. It also does not have the typical very long tentacles of a torch.

My guess is a hammer with deformed heads. Sometimes this is caused by too low of flow(or high I forget now), but some of the best advice for placement when I started out with euphyllia was place them in flow so they just wiggle.