wow found some cool stuff i'd love to have

[AIR-FX]

ive never seen a hammer like this....sooooo kool

have no idea but what awesome colors!
it's a coral lace aust.......distichopora

coral tubinaria

strawberry wellsi

and a suncoral

 

[Jacwil]

Nice stuff for sure...fairly common, as 4 out the 5 of those you can pick up at an LFS. I've never seen the distichopora before, WILD!

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

That hammer looks unhealthy to me. Or at least, retracted.

 

[toddmh]

wall hammers are cool,I have two..they can be a little temperamental though

that sun coral polyp..I have a nice chunk for you

I have a couple blasto's..I will not try to frag them without a band saw though

 

[AIR-FX]

willie.......from what the site said.....it's a hammer,but not a branching hammer........ive never seen anything like it.........but i like it!

 

[Jacwil]

It's not a branching hammer it's a wall hammer.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

wall hammer used to be very common and branching hammer used to be unusual but now it's the other way around.

like already mentioned, these corals aren't extremely uncommon. "Strawberry wellsi" is actually a Blastomussa. That Turbinaria frag doesn't look healthy.
Lace corals are closely related to fire corals.

 

[Capt_Cully]

I believe distichopora can be difficult to keep as well. There are some beautiful variations to be sure.

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Sure, I recognize it as a "wall" hammer. I had one years ago. But look at the edge - the skeletal ridges are sticking out. I've never owned/seen one that looked like that when it was "happy."

Look at this photo for comparison:

 

[kase]

The hammer in the first picture is just retracted because if it was not healthy you will see the skin down the side of the wall peeling.

 

[tmz]

Hard to say form a picture but there does appear to be a loss of tissue down the left side of the euphylia anchora. Yep the "Strawberry welsi " is a nicely colored blastomossa.Probably a blastomossa welsi as opposed to a blatomossa merletti which has smaller polyps. Both variants are common but not cheap.

 

[NirvanaFan]

Nice sun coral pic if I do say so myself! Too bad they're a pain in the rear and require feeding all the time.

Those corals are all nice, and relatively easy to get a stores around here except for the distichopora.

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Sorry guys, not trying to spur a lengthy debate, just making an offhand comment. They're all nice looking corals for sure.