Hi, I was wondering if this was a frogspawn? Looks like it sort of but the tentacles aren't as long and it doesn't seem to eat when I feed it. I does grow stems just like candy canes. To me it looks like a candy cane frogspawn hybrid...lol

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that coral is news to me O.o maybe a duncan? cool find!

odd........

Lol, no one knows what this LPS is? I've spent a few hours trying to find out what it is with no success so far! In those pictures it is a little puffier than usual, but it has those tentacles that are neon green and the body is pink. The picture looks a little washed out.

Interesting. Never seen those before.

I believe they are still pretty young, it'll be interesting to see how they look fully mature
So far that piece has six or seven heads, some towards the bottom of the stem seem not to get a lot of light due to shadowing. Do you guys recommend breaking off the branch and replacing them so it gets more light?

break some off and send to me

I recommend breaking a head and sending it off to me Interesting find though! At first glance I was thinking candy cane then I went and looked back to notice the feelers coming off.

have you asked on RC? may get a better response, lots of old farts who have seen a lot over there.

looks like an unhealthy hammer coral.

Could be xiongaquatics, but the smaller polyps on the other branches don't even have any tentacles, only pink flesh (I'll try and get a pic tomorrow of it). Only the bigger mature heads have the tentacles growing. Don't all hammer corals regardless of size start off with generally long tentacles?

hmm... no one knows for sure before I take a stab at RC?

my frogspawn has a few baby polyps growing from the skeleton that look very similiar to this.

Looks like something has been eating your frogspawn.

I think it's a Candy Cane Morph. Time will tell with how big the heads get. The heads on branching Hammers and Frogspawns tend to keep getting larger (or bigger then a Candy Cane head would get anyway.) The heads on Candy Canes only get so big, maybe 1" in diam being close to the largest size.

In the scientific community corals are identified by their skeletal remains not their living flesh. There are many books out there with detailed skeletal pictures for identification. If one of the heads ever dies off (I hope not but .....) you might be able to get an identification that way.

Charles

One other note. Although with branching LPS corals babies can grow out of the stalk their main form of growth comes from the splitting of mature heads. A Candy Cane head will split when it starts to approach the 1" diameter where with branching Hammers/Frogspawns the minimum size before a split would occur would be 1" in diameter and usually bigger then that before it splits.

Time will tell.

Charles