Help with ID - large yellow "coral"?

[Salty150]

Can someone tell me what the large yellow long tentacle "coral" is in this YouTube video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XzTBFYVQOY

Thanks!

 

[moatdaddy]

Hammer and torch coral. Look both up. Torch corals are thinner generally and was the one on the left. Will sting other corals.

 

[Salty150]

So the fuller yellow one is a hammer?

 

[joshky]

So the fuller yellow one is a hammer?

It's a frogspawn and it's a green, not yellow, it looks how it does because the guy has weird bulbs in (for today's standard anyways). Maybe 10000k? I'm sure there's someone with a better eye than me, that's what I'd guess.

 

[2_zoa]

I agree ^^^^^

The "yellow" coral is a frogspawn.


Edit: he states in the video description that it's a "rare" plateing type frogspawn. Green and pink color. The video settings must be playing with the color perception

 

[2_zoa]

Thinking about it. It seems when I tried to get shots of an old 20l I once had. My green walls around the tank would show up yellow due to the blue in my lighting.

 

[Salty150]

Thanks everyone!

I rather like his lighting... it even makes his blue-green chromis look aqua...

Are there any real yellow "corals" like that one? Full with flowing tentacles...

I am trying to find other colors other than green, tan, light purple...

Would be nice to find some yellow, red, orange, etc...

 

[joshky]

Red and orange are easy to get in LPS. True yellow, not so much. Finding a yellow dendro will probably be the easiest way to get a true yellow with large flowing polyps. Dendros are NPS and have to be fed, but can be trained to stay out during the day so they are (in my opinion) more desirable than tubastrea which generally do not.

edit:

I forgot that there's also Australian Golden Torches, which can come in really gold/yellow, that's another good option but may be decently expensive.

 

[Salty150]

And then my other problem... how do I get them all to exist in the tank peacefully...

 

[OrQidz]

I have seen some pretty yellow toadstool leathers before, not sure how easy they are to get but they were quite yellow.

 

[joshky]

Yes if leathers fit your profile of what you want, Yellow Fiji Leathers are beautiful. They need high flow and light for sure.

Getting them all to coexist? That doesn't happen. Give them all plenty of space, eventually things will grow into other things, it is your job to intervene and keep the peace if that's what you want; other's don't mind and let the coral fight it out for themselves. Placement is all about trial and error too.

 

[Salty150]

There seem to be neon yellow hammers and neon orange hammers - from my Google search.

 

[joshky]

There seem to be neon yellow hammers and neon orange hammers - from my Google search.

Those usually aren't as depicted in the photographs, however there may be a few that are genuine as I recall seeing some decent specimens show up lately (in photos), that seemed real. That being said they run a hefty price tag, and usually are wall hammers which have a decently high morbidity rate. Be careful looking at photographs alone, there's a lot of deception in this hobby and unfortunately it's not always easy to spot.

 

[Salty150]

Those usually aren't as depicted in the photographs, however there may be a few that are genuine as I recall seeing some decent specimens show up lately (in photos), that seemed real. That being said they run a hefty price tag, and usually are wall hammers which have a decently high morbidity rate. Be careful looking at photographs alone, there's a lot of deception in this hobby and unfortunately it's not always easy to spot.

What is a wall hammer?

 

[CStrickland]

Also the lights in your tank will affect how it looks. The only thing I don't like about my LED's is how they wash out yellow compared to MH