IS MY TORCH OK???!!

[homer1475]

After going back an actually looking a the OP's pics, doesn;t look like a true frogspawn to me either.

Possibly a frog/hammer hybrid?

The tips almost look hammerish(have seen misshapen hammer tips when lighting isn't right), but the few extra "tips" down the stalks screams frogspawn. But there isn't enough extra "tips" so say for certain it's a frogspawn either.

 

[homer1475]

I guess I'm on the lookout for a wall frogspawn. Seems only the Aussie variety that are "walling" from my simple googling.

Thanks @Jase4224!

 

[redeyejedi]

It’s so weird, I have the opposite experience. I guess branching frogspawn is now in my list to get!

Greatdane, there’s is a chance you have a branching frogspawn. I had not ever seen one so based my ID on my previous experience. The tips to my eye still do not look like frogspawn I’ve have seen or own.

I still think its a branching hammer haha. Ive seen branching frogspawn before and it has a different polyp shape. My green hammer which i think the op has.

 

[homer1475]

Notice in the above pic, not all the tips aren't perfect ball peen hammer shapes(some are actually round)? IME thats caused from too much light. It's also what I've read before. Not that it hurts the coral in anyway, just effects the tips not being perfect ball peen hammer shape which is where the coral got it's name from.

If my lights were on(another hour), I would grab a pic of my branching frogspawn.

 

[Dark_Knightt]

Unfortunately the torch can’t live with frogspawns or hammers. The torch will just sting them both

? I thought all euphyllia could be kept together without worries.

 

[homer1475]

Torch is the exception. Sometimes it works fine, but most times it does not work out well for the other coral it's near.

There is a reason it's called a torch.... It will torch anything it gets near.

 

[homer1475]

Older crappy cell phone pic, but dead center of my tank you can clearly see it's a frogspawn and the many branches.

 

[Greatdane]

Thanks @homer1475 @Jase4224 @Waynerock
For your advice, hope yall have a good day.

 

[Jase4224]

After going back an actually looking a the OP's pics, doesn;t look like a true frogspawn to me either.

Possibly a frog/hammer hybrid?

The tips almost look hammerish(have seen misshapen hammer tips when lighting isn't right), but the few extra "tips" down the stalks screams frogspawn. But there isn't enough extra "tips" so say for certain it's a frogspawn either.

Pretty much what I was thinking.

In Australia we can’t import invertebrates, so there’s a good chance that only the wall variety of frogspawn exists here. The branching probably comes from Indo. So I’ll probably never be able to get one

Just looking at your branching frogspawn (beautiful!) It definitely is not a hammer but the tips look very different to my frogspawn, mine really does look like a dense cluster of frogs eggs. Purple coral in older pic:

 

[homer1475]

Pretty much what I was thinking.

In Australia we can’t import invertebrates, so there’s a good chance that only the wall variety of frogspawn exists here. The branching probably comes from Indo. So I’ll probably never be able to get one

Just looking at your branching frogspawn (beautiful!) It definitely is not a hammer but the tips look very different to my frogspawn, mine really does look like a dense cluster of frogs eggs. Purple coral in older pic:

Actually after I posted I was thinking the same, location. Might explain why here in the states, the price for euphyllia has skyrocketed since the indo ban(haven't really come down since it was lifted wither). I don't do a lot of research on where my corals come from(I buy what I like), but have never seen to many AU euphyllia in any LFS I frequent(or at least not directly sold as aussie).

That wall variety definitely has different looking tips then my branching. Nice specimen btw! Love the color.

 

[Waynerock]

Speaking of the elusive wall frog, which I have never seen in person or for sale is on sale at corals.com currently. I find that super random

 

[homer1475]

That looks like an octospawn to me. And even different still from @Jase4224

EDIT:
Just looked it up, certainly looks more octospawn then frogspawn. At $249 they can keep it. lol I remember when euphyllia used to be $30 a head just a few years back.

 

[Jase4224]

Honestly I think it may come down to either variation within species which is true for colour therefore likely with shape. Or there are many more species than we know of!

There is a great video on Reefs.com YouTube channel where the ACI aquaculture guy talks about Euphyllia and one thing he mentioned about hammers was that there was genetic evidence that each colour was a different species (going from memory here might have minced this up!) but it was very interesting and worth a watch.