Frogspawn and Branching Hammer Growth Journal
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Javeo
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Its a grape coral E.cristata, not a hybrid.
~RuSh~
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Huh. I googled images of grape coral... seems to be a widely used common name for E. ancora, E. cristata, and even the bubble coral Plerogyra sinuosa. Obviously common names are pretty vague.
E. cristata pics mostly came back as what I thought to be Torch coral... I only found one or two pics of "Grape coral" when I searched E. cristata, and it doesn't quite look like what I have...
Could you elaborate further?
Javeo
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Of course, also the fact your on the other side of the Atlantic makes common names even less "common"!
Torch corals are euphyllia glabrescens, your coral, from what I can see, looks like a perfect fit for Euphyllia cristata, called the grape coral here in the UK.
The euphyllias do all tend to look very similar and perhaps research will show that E.cristata is a hybrid between 2 other euphyllia species.
Whatever the truth, yours is a beautiful coral I need to find one like it
Slim_jim989
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The best way to check for growth is to make them retract there polyps and then count growth as new heads or skeleton growth. Are you feeding yours any? I have better growth if I feed mine every now and then some PE mysis or rods food.
~RuSh~
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Of course, also the fact your on the other side of the Atlantic makes common names even less "common"!
Torch corals are euphyllia glabrescens, your coral, from what I can see, looks like a perfect fit for Euphyllia cristata, called the grape coral here in the UK.
The euphyllias do all tend to look very similar and perhaps research will show that E.cristata is a hybrid between 2 other euphyllia species.
Whatever the truth, yours is a beautiful coral I need to find one like it
Ah, I see. Thank you for the explanation, and for the compliment!
~RuSh~
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I have been feeding them occasionally, once or twice a week usually. I have PE mysis as well, and they seem to take NLS pellets just as greedily. So far I am quite pleased with their progress.
Javeo
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Yes, I bought them over the weekend.
You're right, and looking back at your one closely I can see the tentacles are branched as well. They "hammers" are not as hammer shaped as my other hammer corals and nor as swollen at the tips. Some are even round.
I think Euphyllia are so plastic in their polyp and tentacle structure that they are too hard to pin down. Even the torchs I bought were in a tank with another torch and the two looked so different that they could easily have been different species.
You're right, and looking back at your one closely I can see the tentacles are branched as well. They "hammers" are not as hammer shaped as my other hammer corals and nor as swollen at the tips. Some are even round.
I think Euphyllia are so plastic in their polyp and tentacle structure that they are too hard to pin down. Even the torchs I bought were in a tank with another torch and the two looked so different that they could easily have been different species.
~RuSh~
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I agree completely. So much variation that it's sometimes hard to nail down a proper ID. Awesome looking corals nonetheless. I've definitely really come to enjoy Euphyllias.
~RuSh~
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Thanks. My wife just snapped some pics last night with the DSLR... I'll go through them when I get a chance and update.
