Torch or Frogspawn??

fishygrl

fishygrl

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There is a little debate going on regarding the actual type of coral this is... Anyone care to settle?
 
seannmelly

seannmelly

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to me it looks like both. frogspawn has multiple tips like some of them do in the pic and a torch has single tenticles as some of them in the pic also. but to me my final guess is a frogspawn.
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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Torch. the tips by in large are clearly simple half

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shaped (torch) although a few polyps have an odd Y shape branching prior to the tips which could confuse people into thinking its frogspawn. a few of the tips arent "perfect" which could also be taken for frogspawn (not many of them though).
 
seannmelly

seannmelly

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as for the pics thats what i was basing my guess on. if you look at the original post pic the right side has the "y" tenticles and the left side has the regular tenticles. i also have both of these corals and i wasstill wrong. my torch looks nothing like the posted 1 in discussion. even though im wrong i still like to voice my opinion
 
dogstar

dogstar

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Its not unusual for a torch to have a few branched tenticals....a frogspawn has nearly every tentical branched with several branches on most of them.
 
catawaba

catawaba

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hybrid maybe, but I'm inclined to say frogspawn due to the width of the tenticles....The torches I see tend to have thinner tenticles with a perfect ball shaped tip....
JMHO
Either way--it's gorgeous~
 
fedukeford

fedukeford

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Torch, frogspawn have the little "buds" all they way up their tenticles, yous just has them at the top
Feduke
 
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