New hammer coral came in while splitting?

[truben1010]

I received this hammer today and it seems to have a weird mouth. I know it’s a breaching hammer because it has four little baby heads growing on the sides. Any thoughts??

 

[Flowering Reef LLC]

It may be splitting although i have not seen one with such short tentacles, its super cool to see, you can actually see it split

 

[truben1010]

It may be splitting although i have not seen one with such short tentacles, its super cool to see, you can actually see it split

It has short tentacles because I barely received it yesterday and it is stressed.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Normal mouth for a hammer. May be getting ready to go poo or hungry. Splitting a maybe. Try a LIGHT feeding and see how it responds

 

[NewGoby]

I'm gonna say that it definetly is splitting, I have 3 Paraancora, 3 paradivisia & 2 torches myself, and they look exactly like that when splitting,

Sorry for my terrible photoshop skills, but:

Where 1 & 2 meet, is where the branching will occur, right through the middle,
right under '1' is the 1st mouth,
and slightly to the left & down of '2' is the second

 

[Webslinger]

Hammers...that's what they do...split

 

[vetteguy53081]

I'm gonna say that it definetly is splitting, I have 3 Paraancora, 3 paradivisia & 2 torches myself, and they look exactly like that when splitting,

Sorry for my terrible photoshop skills, but:

Where 1 & 2 meet, is where the branching will occur, right through the middle,
right under '1' is the 1st mouth,
and slightly to the left & down of '2' is the second

better pic- this shows splitting

 

[Webslinger]

I started with 2 heads. now 500

 

[vetteguy53081]

I started with 2 heads. now 500