I was told this was/is a hammer with purple tips.

Now that its getting bigger and seeing more tips, I'm thinking its a frogspawn.

Thank you

http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/gallery/files/2/9/8/3/hammfrog2.jpg
http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/gallery/files/2/9/8/3/hammfrog.jpg

looks like a frogspawn to me. very nice though.

Looks very frogspawn like to me as well!

I'm going to vote for Hammer. Below is a picture of my Frog Spawn. On the Hammer the "tips" of the coral are elongated, like a hammer and only at the terminal end of each branch. It's called "branching hammer" coral. On the Frog Spawn the "tips" are more round and are spread between base and the tip top.

http://www.theculturedreef.com/Frogspawn-11-7-06-1.jpg


Below my Hammer.

http://www.theculturedreef.com/Hammer-11-7-06-1.jpg

Seeing them this way should straighten out the confusion.

Dick

My uneducated guess from what little I have seen says frogspawn from the shape and the way the polyps lay. :|

I would have to agree with Dick. It's a Euphyllia paradivisa.


Euphyllia divisa (frogspawn) has polyps with large tubular tentacles that have smaller tubular branches, such as in Dick's first photo.

another vote for hammer

The tips make me think that it is a Hammer.

I'm going to vote hammer as well, however I understand there are hammer/frogspawn hybrids as well, so maybe that's what you have.

I also vote for Euphyllia paradivisa

Not to sway the topic, but have any of you seen a Euphyllia yaeyamaensis (http://www2.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/html/401-500/Species%20pages/419.htm)? Pretty wild. Looks like a Frogspawn on steroids... Are these available for Marine Aquariums? I do not believe I have ever seen one in the states...

they are beautiful corals, but I've never seen one in an aquarium before either!

Beautiful but I've not seen one here either.

I was told this was/is a hammer with purple tips.

Now that its getting bigger and seeing more tips, I'm thinking its a frogspawn.

Thank you

http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/gallery/files/2/9/8/3/hammfrog2.jpg
http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/gallery/files/2/9/8/3/hammfrog.jpg
I say it is a Euphyllia Parancora.

Far as i know all euphyllias that have "par" in are branched , ex E. Parancora, E. Paradivisa.
Those without "par" have no branches, ex E. Ancora, E. Divisa.

I always thought the tips on a hammer were "C" shaped and frogspawn had round or oval tips. From what I am reading here that is not the case. So, how do you differentiate, at a glance, between the 2?

Paradivisa are also a branching coral, whereas divisa (frogspawn) is not.

Does that help?

I always thought the tips on a hammer were "C" shaped and frogspawn had round or oval tips. From what I am reading here that is not the case. So, how do you differentiate, at a glance, between the 2?
True, but for some reason all of them don't develop C shaped tips. If you take a really close look at the picture there are some tips that have the C shape, most of them are oval though.
E. parancora it is (Branched hammer).
Might be some kind of hybrid, but i have never seen, nor heard of one.