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Know Your Corals
Is it Hammer? Is it a Frogspawn? Maybe a Torch? Or you could even throw in a Green Putat? These 4 different corals are all beautiful but have 1 thing in common... They all look similar to the average person. Below are a few easy points of identification that you can use to tell them apart from one another!
Frogspawn Coral
The Frogspawn Coral typically is either green, brown, or tan with multiple branching heads. Unlike Hammer and Torch Corals their tentacles have multiple branches rather than just one head each, this is the easiest way to tell them from other corals.
Torch Coral
The Torch Coral is typically green or brown with brighter colored tips. The tentacles of the Torch Coral are very simple single tentacles with no multiple branches like Frogspawn Corals. The tip of the tentacle also has a smooth ending with no bulges.
Hammer Coral
 Hammer Corals typically have very brightly colored tips and are commonly seen in their "wall" form along with a branching form similar to Torches and Frogspawn. What makes Hammer Corals different are the shapes of their tentacles. Their tentacles are hammer shaped or you could also think of Kidney Bean shaped.
Green Putat
As if those weren't confusing enough there is also the Green Putat, a TRUE Frogspawn. While not too common to see they are a very cool coral. Like a regular Frogspawn they have multiple branching tentacles but their skeleton does not branch.The base is a "wall" type structure similar to the Great Wall of China.
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