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is the coral in this pic a frogspawn, torch, or hammer coral? and, cause apparently it's not healthy, what can i do to make it better? also this was taking like an hour after i turned on the lights so it does open up bigger than that...
>> Anonymous
anyone?
>> Anonymous
so... anonymous doesn't deliver?
>> Anonymous
Are you talking about that bubble tip anemone?
>> Anonymous
>>303319
everyone keeps calling it a hammer coral and a frogspawn... what the hell is it? the coral that the star is wrapping around... what is it and what am i doing wrong?
>> Anonymous
i looked up the bubble tip and it doesn't look like that at all... the guy that sold it to me said it was a frogspawn, but people keep calling it a hammer or torch, and telling me that i'm doing something wrong, but don't bother to tell me what that something is.

any help?
>> Anonymous
Euphyllia corals (Frogspawn, Hammer, Torch, etc...) often look very similar. From your picture I'd say it's a Hammer but it could be a frogspawn. How long have you had it? They often take a number of days once introduced to begin expanding to full size. Also, that serpent start coiling around it is probably irritating it.
>> Anonymous
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Certainly a hammer coral due to only one tip per tentacle. Also notice the shape of the tips...would you say they are hammer or anchor shaped? I would.

This pic is a frogspawn, notice how each tentacle has multiple tentacles and tips on it

The care for all Euphyllias is exaclty the same, though most people consider the torch to be a little more hardy than the frogspawn, and both being a little more hardy than a hammer.

There are bubbletip anemones and then a bubble coral (also a pearl bubble coral) only noobs would confuse them.

Personally I think that is a rather healthy example of a hammer, notice how the tissue is extended pretty far down the skeleton? That is a sign of good health. On unhealthy ones, the tissue that goes down the skeleton is instead drawn up into the actual polyp.
>> Anonymous
everyone was saying cause the tips aren't like neon green or something that it wasn't doing good.

also it actually expands like 3 or 4 times bigger than that but i'd only turned my light on like an hour and a half ago, plus like someone said the star is messing with it.
>> Anonymous
If a coral is very brown it could mean you don't have very bright light so the coral must colonize more symbiotic algae in order to sustain photosynthesis (which would make it more brown). Or you could just have a brown Hammer Coral. Lack of neon green isn't a big deal. You just don't want it to bleach and turn white on you.
>> Anonymous
ok good. my clown seems to have bonded with it too which is really cool. i plan to buy a power compact in the next few week (I have a coralife right now) but i just don't have the money at the moment. thanks for the help.
>> Anonymous
>>303547
that could be a problem, your clown can smash the polyp down onto the sharp skeleton underneath, ripping it and cuasing an infection