Can your hammer do this?

[Reef Bass]

Appears to me as though one of the tentacles is hyper inflated. I've heard of this happening but never seen it.

 

[JoshuAcOOk]

thats damn cool

 

[AquariumMan]

I'm too distracted by how awesome the picture is

 

[Biocubehqi]

What kinda camera do you use. My lights mess my pic all up

 

[sponger0]

Usually happens when whites go off or all lights are off and your coral is very happy. My hammer just started doing this also.

 

[RandysReef]

Wheres is the picture?

 

[Reef Bass]

Thanks JoshuAcOOk and AquariumMan.

Biocubehqi, I use a Canon EOS 50D with Canon 100mm macro lens. The key to accurate colors under high color temperature lighting is to shoot in RAW mode and to set the white balance during post processing.

sponger0, thanks for the info. I did feed it the morning before I took this picture.

RandysReef, hmm. I see the picture.

 

[drktemplar]

awesome picture.. very nice looking hammer

 

[dalston]

Mine usually do that when one of the heads is splitting.

 

[Seagars]

mine usually do that when one of the heads is splitting.

+1

 

[Psirex]

nice bicolor - wish i had the camera to take nice pics like that....

 

[Reef Bass]

Thanks for the feedback and kind words gentlemen. I am glad to hear that tentacle inflation / bubble blowing by hammers is not a sign of impending doom.

 

[Reef Bass]

Question - has anyone noticed how to influence the color ratio on bicolor hammers? When I got this hammer over a year ago, it had two branches and only one branch had heads with green tipped tentacles . That has continued to this day where all new heads have followed that pattern.

 

[SushiGirl]

That's an awesome hammer! I like how some of the tips have streaks of green.

 

[Reef Bass]

Thanks Sushi. I like that too.

 

[xmike24]

What's the scientific name for this? Is this the same as my frag?

 

[Reef Bass]

Hammer corals are Euphyllia anchora. They are available in different colors.

The frag in your pic looks like a young hammer to me.

 

[xmike24]

Hammer corals are Euphyllia anchora. They are available in different colors.

The frag in your pic looks like a young hammer to me.

It is, I got it as a frag with two heads about a month ago and it now has 3.

Whats the difference between Euphyllia anchora and Euphyllia parancora. I thought Parancora were "branching" hammers which I thought was mine.

 

[day1]

That's a Parancora ( Branching ) hammer , :thumbsup:
Nice hammers and easy to frag , I have over 30 hammers in my collection , I am a Hammer Holic :lmao:

 

[Reef Bass]

Thanks day1. I was unaware of the difference in nomenclature.