Torch starting to look like a hammer

[sam2110]

Does anyone know why my tourch is starting to look like a hammer, it's been getting thick tips for around 2 weeks. It starts off with the tentacles forming another tip.

 

[PBnJOnWheat]

Does anyone know why my tourch is starting to look like a hammer, it's been getting thick tips for around 2 weeks. It starts off with the tentacles forming another tip.

I think that’s pretty average. I know there are Aussie and indo torches so this looks like an Aussie, which could explain its growth more thick and stubby (like a hammer) compared to its cousin, the indo torches.

 

[James M]

Because it’s a hammer and not a torch

 

[PBnJOnWheat]

Because it’s a hammer and not a torch

It kinda looks like a hammer tbh I think it could go either way. The tips scream hammer but the polyps scream Aussie.

+1 on the hammer

 

[sam2110]

It's been in my tank for a few months, in the shop it had long thin tentacles with small tips like my other 3 torches, it's only started looking like this for the past 2 weeks it's always looked like a torch. I also saw the mother colony it was fraged off. Here it is now looking different again 3 hours after first photo.

 

[redeyejedi]

100% hammer. mine is the same as yours.

 

[sam2110]

100% hammer. mine is the same as yours.

Do you think I should move it away from my torch as they do touch

 

[Mikedawg]

Do you think I should move it away from my torch as they do touch

Torches and hammer together, torch wins ime. I would give them room apart from one another.

 

[LegendaryCG]

Hope they didn’t charge you torch prices for that... not that it’s not a nice coral either way.

 

[sam2110]

Torches and hammer together, torch wins ime. I would give them room apart from one another.

They have been as they are since December lol. I think I'm going to trade it for a torch as I already have 5 hammers in the tank

 

[sam2110]

Hope they didn’t charge you torch prices for that... not that it’s not a nice coral either way.

Yes they did £85 per head and if its a hammer it's more like £45 per head. It's strange as the shop is one man owned and ran, it is meant to be the best in the south west of uk

 

[Tamberav]

Euphyllia can hybridized too fyi

 

[Storm Trooper Reefer]

I've heard some torches change color. not found anything great on a quick search. maybe you all know better.

 

[sam2110]

Torches and hammers can hybridized too fyi

I do have a toxic green hybrid in the back of my tank, its an awesome coral

 

[s_tempest]

I have a hammer that’s been in the tank for 18 months. I moved it to a new spot 3 weeks ago and the tips are now changing. instead of a straight hammer bar across the end, the hammers are getting curved into an S shape.
I love how these things keep us guessing!

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

Looks like a hybrid to me rather than a straight hammer. Tons of crazy names for LPS hybrids out there