ID help with LPS

[TX_Punisher]

Picked this up a few months ago. It has doubled in size and accidentally fragged a branch that has grown out recently. Does not look like a hammer or my other torches.

Thoughts?

 

[absowry]

Picked this up a few months ago. It has doubled in size and accidentally fragged a branch that has grown out recently. Does not look like a hammer or my other torches.

Thoughts?

Looks like a frog spawn. Definitely euphyllia coral. Do any of the tips have two ends?

 

[TX_Punisher]

Sorry. Meant to add, does not appear to be a frogspawn as it has a single tip. As stated above, it branches and does not grow in a wall formation.

 

[Conor_K]

Frammer?

 

[TX_Punisher]

I’ve also got this one with purple body and dark purple tips.

 

[LiveWire]

Definitely euphyllia coral

I agree with @absowry. And it looks more like a Torch Coral IMO.

 

[TX_Punisher]

I agree with @absowry. And it looks more like a Torch Coral IMO.

It was sold as a torch but clearly different than the typical torch. Just wanted some other opinions.

Thanks everyone

 

[absowry]

I agree with @absowry. And it looks more like a Torch Coral IMO.

I'm thinking you might be right. A short tentacled Aussie torch probably. Very nice specimens!

I have a frogspawn that looks just like it. The only reason I think mine is a frogspawn is some tips look hammerish and some have double round tips.

 

[TX_Punisher]

Here’s my hammer and mustard-tipped torch for comparison. All very different.

 

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[Hemmdog]

Here’s my hammer and mustard-tipped torch for comparison. All very different.

That’s an indo torch. The two in the previous pics are aussi torches.

 

[Hemmdog]

I’ve also got this one with purple body and dark purple tips.

Pretty sure that’s an aussi gold, if so it’s a very valuable and beautiful coral once you color it up.

 

[TX_Punisher]

Pretty sure that’s an aussi gold, if so it’s a very valuable and beautiful color once you color it up.

I’m betting it needs more par then. Currently sitting at 120 par.

 

[Willu]

It definitely a torch, perhaps a Tonga torch as they tend to have shorter and stubbier tentacles. I have a grape coral and it doesn’t quite look like what you have.

 

[Jay Z]

Tonga gold tip green torch

 

[Jay Z]

Tonga gold blue tip torch

 

[TX_Punisher]

Look up euphyllia cristata and see if that might be a match.

Very close to a match.

 

[Jay Z]

Man. If you have the same 2 as I listed, that would be crazy. I just bought those exact ones last month from reef lounge USA.

Those pictures are mine from my tank.

 

[TX_Punisher]

I bought them 6-8 months ago at Oceanlife in Houston. I was going through a torch phase. Just lost an Aussie gold for the second time. No more of those.