Bought as hammers???

[Salt1823]

These are not hammers. Ordered thru a lfs. Came in bag labeled as hammers. Frogspawn? Just needed some more experienced eyes on this. Sorry for the floating bits I had just scraped my tank wall. Wanted to catch the sweeper tentacle out. I know the small one in center of pic is a hammer, it's the two branching I'm unsure of. Thank you in advance!

 

[Chad Sepulvado]

Looks like cristata?

 

[Salt1823]

Looks like cristata?

Do you think both are? They look different in shape to me. Here's another pic of them beside each other.

 

[Cell]

Skeleton way too long for cristata?

 

[Salt1823]

Skeleton way too long for cristata?

What do you think they are?

 

[Cell]

Looks more like a frogspawn than a hammer to me, but not really sure. It could be a hybrid.

 

[tripdad]

They look like hammers that are not happy. Give them a few weeks and see if the tips elongate, I suspect they will as long as they are happy. There is a lot of tip shape variation in hammer species, even among like corals.

 

[DangerDave]

It’s a euphyllia of some sort. I wouldn’t call it a hammer or frogspawn.

 

[TheAngrySeahorse]

Looks like a branching hammer to me...that is trying to get happy. Frog spawn will have multiple tips on each tentacle if you will. Hammers typically have one tip on the end in a hammer shape...

 

[TheAngrySeahorse]

Hammer in the foreground, bi-color frogspawn in the back ground. Hopefully that shows enough detail to explain my comment

 

[Salt1823]

Could be unhappy hammers.. I knew about the difference in shape of the end of tentacles. I have hammers and had frogspawn until my urchin knocked it off onto an elegance. I had never seen an unhappy shaped hammer. Thank you for the advice.