Hammer or Frogspawn???

[1979fishgeek]

hi guys need your help....

I LOVE euphyllia species, particularly torch, frogspawn and hammer (in that order) so I don't know if wishful thinking is making me see things that's not there.

I picked up a Euphyllia today which was described as 'Wall Hammer' from a reefer who's shutting down his tank.

It's def a wall....but is it a Frogspawn? Have a look at photos and see what you think? The tips of its polyps are hammer-like (more so than my other spawns)but some not all are branching. I though branch polyps = frogspawn?

 

[reeferfoxx]

Kind of looks more like a frogspawn/hammer hybrid. But if i had to choose, looks more like a hammer than a frogspawn to me.

 

[Highgrade]

Frogspawn.

 

[Tyreef2016]

Frogspawn

 

[jgvergo]

I'm drawing on the totality of my 5 months in the hobby...it looks exactly like the Frogspawn I have :D

 

[1979fishgeek]

Kind of looks more like a frogspawn/hammer hybrid. But if i had to choose, looks more like a hammer than a frogspawn to me.

Never seen one so hard to work out....tips make me say def Hammer, but never seen a Hammer polyps that branch?

New Euphyllia it's a Spammer... No....Hamspawn...err...Frogmer? Lol

 

[1979fishgeek]

I think based on the fact that some of the polyps are branching it has to be a frogspawn???

Will take some more photos when it's settled down more.

 

[reeferfoxx]

It just doesn't look like 100% frogspawn. I have branching frogspawn full of pimples? lol Since the tips looks more like hammer, i would think hammer. Growth could be because of parameters and/or lighting so.... difficult to say.

 

[smh254]

Octospawn maybe

 

[1979fishgeek]

It just doesn't look like 100% frogspawn. I have branching frogspawn full of pimples? lol Since the tips looks more like hammer, i would think hammer. Growth could be because of parameters and/or lighting so.... difficult to say.

It's a real head scratcher this one, def has both characteristics.

 

[Baby Ray]

Octospawn maybe

+1^^^^^

 

[reeferfoxx]

Octospawn maybe

Even that is full of pimples.

 

[reeferfoxx]

Scratch that..Yeah i would say Octospawn.

 

[Tyreef2016]

what is the diff between frog and octo?? thought it was just another name.

 

[reeferfoxx]

what is the diff between frog and octo?? thought it was just another name.

It's a morph between the two.

 

[1979fishgeek]

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what is the diff between frog and octo?? thought it was just another name.

Me too, thought they were just trade names?

There is a variety of frogspawn E. Yaeyamaensis with thicker polyps but they tend to be way more pimply....that's what I think of as Octo?

 

[1979fishgeek]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/10/corals

This is what I use as my Euphyllia bible, written by James W Fatherree, anyone know if he uses this forum?

 

[1979fishgeek]

New photos.

Now it's settled in my tank, what do you think frogspawn?

But def has some hammer shaped polyps.

 

[cmcoker]

I have a branching euphyllia that has hammer tips but frogspawn like polyps that brach. Got it from a lfs who said it was a hybrid they got, and have in a tank in the back..
I call it a frammer ☺

 

[1979fishgeek]

I have a branching euphyllia that has hammer tips but frogspawn like polyps that brach. Got it from a lfs who said it was a hybrid they got, and have in a tank in the back..
I call it a frammer ☺

I just been googling Hammer Frogspawn hybrids and there are quite a few claiming to be hybrids, others saying it's a unnamed species/subspecies.

Love this one, it's polyps are larger than my frogspawn but smaller than my hammers, it's like a perfect mix of the two. Has some polyps that look completely Hammer, others frogspawn and a few hammer tipped but branching like frogspawn.

This photo shows frogspawns at top, hammers in centre and this maybe hybrid below.