Which type of hammer?

[spamvicious]

I thought they were both branching hammers but the gold hammer (on the sand) seems to be growing in a different way to the dual colour one on the rocks which I think is the branching one.

 

[ReefFreak@]

One in sand is defiantly branching, Other one looks branching as well, just different polyp. Could be from flow.

 

[shcrimps]

I thought they were both branching hammers but the gold hammer (on the sand) seems to be growing in a different way to the dual colour one on the rocks which I think is the branching one.

some split before branching
pictures of the skeleton would help better distinguish which you have
but there’s also H U G E variety’s i think some Malaysian and some aussie are that way
at least the ones i’ve got have been
while some others stay smaller/ branch more than split

 

[Cichlid Dad]

I have a lot of branching hammer and frogs, each different in the structure, polyps and the way they split.

 

[spamvicious]

some split before branching
pictures of the skeleton would help better distinguish which you have
but there’s also H U G E variety’s i think some Malaysian and some aussie are that way
at least the ones i’ve got have been
while some others stay smaller/ branch more than split

That’s the skeleton of the gold one. The other ones is just one solid piece.