Do any of you have teal/blue hammers? Or know of who sells them?

[MarineGirl411]

Hi,
I've only seen a couple. I ordered a teal hammer coral from reefscience and mistakenly got sent a pink. =*( I was so disappointed. Someone got my teal hammer. Anyway, do any of you know of who sells them? I haven't seen another like it since. I saw a light teal hammer on ebay, but I don't trust ebay for livestock. I've had problems with Ebay at certain items. >=/ If you know, can you tell me? Also, anyone have pictures of theirs? I'd love to see them.

 

[vessxpress1]

I've never seen one and I doubt they exist. Chances are the seller had full actinics on for the picture, over the pink one you got. Then when you got it, you got to see the real color. A lot of places these days trying to pass stuff off as teal, or blue when they're really not.

Stick with companies you can trust, that don't use strong actinics and who offer multiple shots of the coral under different lighting and maybe even with flash. Especially when buying a more expensive piece. Any decent seller should do this automatically, although very few do.

Some sellers will do anything out of desperation to move livestock. Kind of sad. Almost like false advertising. Most anybody with a conscience won't do it.

 

[vessxpress1]

Do a search for 'hammer coral' on ebay right now (within the next 24 hrs). 3 pics will come up. The bottom one is the exact same type as the top one, but they look completely different. The bottom one is under heavy actinics and the tips appear to be teal.
While the seller is not trying to pass the coral off as a teal color, the picture is a bad representation of what it actually looks like.

All I've seen for hammers and frogspawns are pink/ pink tips, green/ pink tips, and pink with green tips. I have seen white ones but don't know if it was bleached or not. If they come in other colors, I have never seen them.

 

[MarineGirl411]

Do you have a copy of the coral book by Eric Borneman? They have a section in there on hammers. It seems as though the hammer in there is a dark blue hammer. If there is really no such thing, why would people offer teal hammers for sale? =*( I've seen 2 already.

 

[ViPeR_930]

I'll have to look at that book this weekend. I've seen grayish hammers, but nothing close to blue/teal.

Did you see the teal hammers in person, or just pictures? Pics can differ a lot from what it really looks like.

 

[MarineGirl411]

Pictures. Pictures from the Eric Borneman book, pictures from ReefScience and also pictures on ebay. They were all labeled as Light blue hammer coral (under a 14k phoenix, and a turquoise hammer. =(

 

[Hormigaquatica]

Check out page 457 in Sprung/Delbeek Reef Aquarium vol. 2. There is a photo pf a tank belonging to Ricardo Miozzo, in Brazil. That is the only photo of what appears to be a blue hammer that I have ever seen. (I love his whole tank, but that particular animal Really sticks out)

 

[Thhitman]

I have a blue branching hammer about 10" or so, its more of a teal blue/green but more blue than green.

 

[mikekman]

Can someone post pics of a blue hammer? That would be crazy if there was a hammer that was blue like a tubs blue zoo!

While we are on the same topic, any such thing as a red hammer or yellow hammer?

 

[Kigs]

it will never be that blue. the definition of blue when it comes to euphyillia is more close to peachy gray, the term exaggerated to 'blue' imo

 

[Hormigaquatica]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10442590#post10442590 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kigs
it will never be that blue. the definition of blue when it comes to euphyillia is more close to peachy gray, the term exaggerated to 'blue' imo

I strongly suggest you check out the book I referred to above. I promise, its right there Ricardo is a well respected reefer... excellent specimens.

 

[MarineGirl411]

I'd love to see some pictures as well! Please post pictures! =)

 

[Ace1]

i have seen yellow hammer corals in person they were under MH 400w at a LFS, and yes they were really yellow

 

[Hormigaquatica]

Weve got some metallic orange ones at work- Im gonna have to get one one of these days. Not as rare as yellow or true blue, but still a cool alternative to the usual green/purple/tan.

 

[mikekman]

Ace1 -have pics of a yellow hammer? Would like to see a pic

Hormig -can you take pics of the orange hammer? HOw much is your lfs selling them for and do they ship

 

[Hormigaquatica]

Yeah, I know, Im digging up and old thread

After seeing the orange hammer sit at work for the last several months, I finally had to bite the bullet and get it. I just got it in the tank, so its not open much yet, and yes the halides are out for the night so this is just a T-5 actinic. Overall, I have to admit the photo pretty much sucks 100%, just use it to compare the color to the normal green frogspawns by it But its still pretty freaking orange even with the halides one. Just crossing my fingers that it recovers from the move alright- it was not pleased about the trip home.

 

[SVXH6]

sweet.. a store in my area has orange torchs and orange hammers.. they look awesome and will definately be an eye catcher for sure.. im just wondering how they will hold their color in the longterm seeing you dont really see too many of them.. i will be picking up an orange torch in the next few weeks for sure!!

 

[MarineGirl411]

Wow! That is so cool! Make sure to get a picture when it opens up. It looks beautiful. Still looking for that special hammer. =) Thanks for bringing back the thread. That was a long time ago. ;-)

 

[Coderabit2]

Any shots of it opening up?

 

[hollback]

Nice Aaron. Any updated shots? I see it is a branching variety. I will have to trade you a frag in the distant future.