Is this euphyllia baliensis?

[Jonathan lee]

Hi guys, recently been seeing these sold as “mini hammers”. Never really seen many till about 3 years ago. Even more common now coming out of bali and maricultured. They have rounder tips, smaller thinner skeletons. They definitely dont look like the normal hammers im used to seeing here in malaysia(local ones and the ones from indo which have skeletons 3-4x thicker and also bigger polyps/tentacles. These smaller hammers have heads maybe 1/3 as large as normal paraancora. The bright green top right hammer has such small tentacles. Asking cause i bought a few and planning to get more while available.

 

[fishguy242]

hi, believe these are coming through Bali ,Indo, but collected wild in Jakarta.

 

[Jonathan lee]

hi, believe these are coming through Bali ,Indo, but collected wild in Jakarta.

They actually come on the big cement plugs with the plastic tags with the month and year on the tag. Theres 1 main stem thats cemented on top on the tag and then a split into 2-4-8 etc. The lfs cuts them up into 1-2 head frags if nobody buys the whole colony in 2 weeks. They are also more than double the price of the wild ones

 

[fishguy242]

The big cement plugs are relatively new in last 3 yrs, coincidence with Indo and wild collection reopening...