Torch coral

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  1. Perculator

    Perculator Feather Duster

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    Do i feed these brine? Is it needed? i think its a torch. or a hammer. what do u think?
     

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  3. scenario1313

    scenario1313 Tassled File Fish

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    Would need a better pic but looks like torch. It is photosynthetic.
     
  4. PackLeader

    PackLeader Giant Squid

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    Looks like hammer or frogspawn to me. The tentacles are too short, stubby, and regular to be a torch.
    Feed peices of shrimp a couple of times a month. Brine/mysis are too small to offer much for it.
     
  5. Godbert

    Godbert Montipora Capricornis

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    it is a torch i have the same one, i have never fed it and it is doing fine
     
  6. Perculator

    Perculator Feather Duster

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    here is a better picture
     

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    PackLeader Giant Squid

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    100% certain that is not a torch. Its most likely a frogspawn, but *might* be a hammer as well.
    I am on an old computer at work that wont even load photobucket, so I cant directly show you what to look for in the difference, but I can paste the links for you. Pay particular attention the the tentacle length, thickness, and even more importantly, the shape of the bulbs at the end of the tentacles:
    Frogspawn:
    http://www.3reef.com/forums/coral-month/cotm-july-2008-frogspawn-49854.html

    And torch:
    http://www.3reef.com/forums/coral-month/cotm-november-08-torch-54129.html

    Notice that the torch has much longer, thinner tentacles, that branch, as well as the bulbs all being a regular round shape. Frogspawn has short, stubby tentacles with more of an irregular almost "U" shaped bulb, which is even more pronounced in the hammer.

    They are all close cousins, but there are distinguishable differences. They are very commonly confused at retail and get sold as the incorrect species.
     
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  9. suckafish

    suckafish Montipora Capricornis

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    that is most defenity a torch. You dont really need to feel it meaty food. but i spot feed mine once in awhile say every 2 weeks mabye ever week, at the least mystis shrimp
     
  10. Perculator

    Perculator Feather Duster

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    I bought this, 2 heads, at $5 a head. I think it was worth it whatever it is.
    here is a picture of it more open, compared to a hammer coral picture I found, I dont know if the picture is really a hammer, but it looks just like it.

    The first one is the picture i found of hammer coral, and the second one is mine. Third is a torch, and 4th is a frogspawn.
    I do not know if these are really what I say they are, they were just looked up. Anyways, I think its a hammer
     

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  11. PackLeader

    PackLeader Giant Squid

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    All of the pics look correct. I'm not 100% sure as to hammer or frogspawn, but it surely is not a torch. As I said, look at the bulbs. The torch's will be round, as it's the only one of the group that's like that. If the bulb's are not round, then you do not have a torch.
    All three are cool corals though, and a cool steal at 5 bucks a head. Congrats man!
     
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    suckafish Montipora Capricornis

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    from lookin at you third pic the tips look like a little clubs. that is distintive of hammer corals. when it comes out all the way is it longer then the pix?
     
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