frogspawn? torch?

ID please on what this actually is ive seen a few and they dont look quite similar.
its got a mouth in the center of the (tenacles?)

 

My frogspawn has a mouth in the center so i'm guessing it's that, although i have no experience with the torch. Looks like a frogspawn too because of the branching tenatcles, don't think it's that way with torch

 

Not a torch, they have straigh polyps. Look like a frogspawn to me as well. Anchors have the forked ends dipping downwards, while a hammer they stray outright. Frogspawns have a split polyp that heads outwards, like the picture above.

 

Thanks guys!!

 

The words hammer and anchorr are the same , as the tips look like an anchor or hammer. Sometimes these shapes are mixed and on rare occassions the tips are even like a tourch, mixed in with hanmmers. These are usually "hybrids", between parancora and paradvisa. There are two typies of "Hammer/Anchor corals., branching and nonbranching. There are also two different typies of Frogspawn, branching and nonbranching. This corals is a Branching Frogspawn, Euphiyilla paradivisa. The prefix, "para", is applied to the branching, as it is in divisa True Frogspawns are divisa and and true hammer/anchor are ancora

 

[quote author=Boomer link=board=Coral;num=1078095760;start=0#4 date=03/16/04 at 07:46:32]The words hammer and anchor are the same , as the tips look like an anchor or hammer. [/quote]


Hello
The hammer or torch (anchor, sorry) looks like this:


And this is the frog spawn :

 

Very helpful thanks - and thanks for joining 3reef.
I was also admiring your pics in the Member Gallery, that must be some camera!

 

Mako that is not a hammer or a torch coral. it is an anchor coral.
The bottom photo you have posted would be the frogspawn

 

This is a "torch coral"

 

I recall the difference being mapped out a couple weeks ago now and I totally spaced it. Nice work Mod. ;D