![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve seen specimens of hammer coral with these blacked out tips before, in person and in pictures but this colony living at Aquatic Art is one of the most high contrast colonies we’ve ever seen with this color pattern. Short of calling it a goofy name, for once we’re at a loss at how to describe this unique Euphyllia ancora with ‘black tips’ where the brighter underlying coloration is not present, creating a really striking looking hammer coral. Not only have we enjoyed hammers, frogspawns, and torches in a dizzying array of colors but there are also countless patterns to remix their different hues, a shining example of which we encountered at one of the Denver-area reef specialty stores recently. More discerning collections of Euphyllia, especially in Australia and Indonesia, have shows us those graceful, flowing tentacles in a spectrum of yellow, green, orange, and even purple-ish colors and combinations thereof, with true blue being the only shade missing from the color palette of the fleshy LPS corals. There was a time when most of us were certainly very content to see any Euphyllia coral in a bright shade of green, but the last fifteen years have revealed a rainbow of colors we never knew existed.
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