frogspawn vs branching hammer

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  1. tinnghe

    tinnghe Purple Spiny Lobster

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    i was told by my LFS couple years back that i have a branching hammer, now looking at the branching hammer, i can't tell wether it is the frogspawn or branching hammer, they both green w purple tips, one is a shape of circle another is shape of an oval is that the only different?
     
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  2. suckafish

    suckafish Montipora Capricornis

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    post some pix...
     
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  3. tinnghe

    tinnghe Purple Spiny Lobster

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    wont be near my tank till weekend
     
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  4. Screwtape

    Screwtape Tonozukai Fairy Wrasse

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    In my experience the shape of the tip of the tentacles is the easiest way to tell and is the main difference between them. Frogspawn are round and the hammers have more elongated/oval/hammer like tips.

    Sometimes the tentacles will have slightly different structures as well, such as having tentacles branching off of other tentacles etc, but it isn't consistent as far as I've seen.
     
    Screwtape, Feb 5, 2009
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