Is It a Grafted Euphyllia??

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I've recently acquired a single head of a -so it looks- grafted parancora.
Any thoughts about it? I read a little about the topic, but could only find examples of human made grafted torches.
This one does not seem to be glued together, the tissue and skeleton are a single piece, and I can spot some bicolour tentacles on the head.
Have you had one like this before? What can I expect from the new heads? I think the colony will split half and half, or probably it will grow only one colour, and just this head will be splitted.
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P.S. I'll maybe post later some other pics when fully open. It has just now joined the main tank
 

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It’s a bicolored hammer
 

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Another type. One of them splitting to show you what to expect as it grows

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Cool! I didn't know they would keep growing bicolored heads.
I also think it's a Euphyllia parancora and not a glabrescens, but couldn't find examples of splitted hammers so I cited the torches (Didn't search enough 🙃😂)
 
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That's pretty cool! Haven't seen those at my LFS, only online!
Me neither. I saw it few days ago at my LFS for the first time and gave it a go. It cost 40€, quite an honest price I think. Given also the price, I wasn't really expecting much, but if the new heads will keep growing like this one.. not bad😜
 

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Cool! I didn't know they would keep growing bicolored heads.
I also think it's a Euphyllia parancora and not a glabrescens, but couldn't find examples of splitted hammers so I cited the torches (Didn't search enough 🙃😂)
Fimbriaphyllia* technically. Sometimes neighboring corals can exchange pigments, which is how these happen
 

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