Got this in Montgomery, AL last Saturday.. It was 50 a head.. but the thing was this hammer is out of control.. It splits like there ain't no tomorrow!! This guy started with 5 heads and in 3 weeks had 14!! In 3 months.. he had over 90!! We got ours Saturday, and it already has a third head started!

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a222/butterflymom2004/cyano/DSC_0080.jpg

nice. tell me when you are ready frag that baby. (there is a nice video on how to frag it) and i might want a head also.

Whoa. Did they live near a toxic waste dump or anything?

Looks Great! I have three but they are pink with green tips. I love them because they are so easy to care for and grow so quickly. Enjoy! Your's looks beautiful!

lol.. Hopefully, these guys will have a couple frags in two weeks or so.

Ours is pink now with green tips.. it was kinda freaked out I think when we first brought him home. The display at the store was HUGE!! it had to have at least 50-60 heads on it and they had two clowns that swam in and out of them.. Dennis thought is was so cool, that he Had to have some too.

Looks more like a frogspawn than Hammer to me. But I am usually wrong :)

Looks more like a frogspawn than Hammer to me. But I am usually wrong :)
No. Looks that way to me also:up:

definitly a frogspawn not a hammer

You know.. I didn't think it looked very 'hammer' like either, but that's what they told us it was at the LFS..

Euphyllia is too confusing for common names sometimes. I had a hammer/frogspawn crossover. It had both polyp types present. Classify THAT! I'd say a frog hammer, but that might already be something manufactured in Alabama.

Euphyllia is too confusing for common names sometimes. I had a hammer/frogspawn crossover. It had both polyp types present. Classify THAT!

someone told me those are called *frammers* .. like a hybrid rosebush

looks like a tourch coral to me

j/k before someone takes that seriously

the color is similar to a torch i agree but it is a frogspawn. Danny how does that look like a hybrid? the color is off but the way it extends even the shape at the bottom is that of a frogspawn

I was providing it as an example to illustrate the problem with classifying Euphyllia and how it can lead one to mislabel a specimen. I agree it's a frogspawn.

i do see a few polyps that look curved like a hammer but not enough to say hybrid possibly a better picture with more color detail would help identify..either way nice looking coral

In fact...

Common names: Hammer Coral, Anchor Coral, Grape Coral, Frogspawn Coral, Octopus Coral, Torch Coral, Branching Hammer Coral, Branching Anchor Coral, Pop-Pom Coral, Branching Frogspawn Coral.

That describe: E. ancora, E. cristata, E. divisa, E. glabrescens, E. paradivisa, E. parancora

Now try to find a picture online that matches just one of those names.

Looks more like a frogspawn than Hammer to me. But I am usually wrong :)

I thought it was a hammer that was startled. Mine looks like that sometimes in the morning before the lights come on or when someone swims by too closely... I guess Kimberly would know best if the "hammers" ever come out or not?

Ok Danny, you just took the post to a whole new level, I hope you looked that up or I will just feel even less educated than I did 2 min ago.

As far as the color, "Frog Spawn" come in 2 different combinations. Pink with green tips and green with pink tips. Pink with green tips being the less common variety. I am sure most of you knew that but there may have been some that didn't!

Navy- I knew most of that, but I always research my posts to be as precise as I can be.

not a hammer but nice frag, check this guys frag out.
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g62/kzoo_2006/frog.jpg
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g62/kzoo_2006/frog2.jpg

Good lord that thing is giant, looks like something from the Georgia Aquarium.

Speaking of the Georgia Aquarium....Did anyone else find the Reef Section to be a let down? I am not sure if I went in expecting to much but I have seen better Reef systems in peoples living rooms (not the size but a better presentation and more variety).

I haven't been in a while.. since Feb... but I thought it was a tad bit on the small size back then...


On another note-- I found ANOTHER new head of my froghammer :) growing this morning.. That makes 4 on a 2headed beast since last Saturday.

I'm pretty sure it's an acropora sp.

I'm pretty sure it's an acropora sp.

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