rare hammer?

[xdusty6920]

just wondering if anyone has a pure white hammer (and not from bleaching lol). i know they are rare but im wondering just how rare. anyone have one or seen one?

[JENnKerry]

[xdusty6920]

beautiful hammer, but not exactly what im talking about. i mean like the color of snow or a sheet of paper. no tint of any color what so ever. ive had a little secret hammer that ive been growing for a while and searching to see if others exsist since i got it. how i came across it is a wierd story in itself but im working on getting a pic of it up. thanks for the post though

[Elite]

I don't know how rare it is but there is a LFS around here has them all the time. I'm not sure they are bleach or not...

[tacocat]

I have seen noe or two true ones. I bought a white frogspawn that didn't stay white.

[JENnKerry]

Im not sure if there is such thing is all white white without a hint of other coloration. Never saw one, just the white one we purchased about a year ago. Around here anything of odd coloration doesnt hit the stores very often. I think if anything, they are picked up when shipments come in or special ordered.
Good luck in search and with your secret hammer. Possibly one day you will be able to frag and share the secret with some others

[xdusty6920]

yeah, im not stingy. but ive had it for.....about 7 months now and its still completely white. its awesome looking, i tried to take pics but my canon wont focus for me.

[jjmcat]

does it look like this

[jdav]

I've got a white frogspawn that has been white for 5 months and split so I am assuming it is supposed to be white......

[Loralie]

(this is her son, but i got sucked into this hobby also.) me and my mom have a whight tiped hammer they are one of the rare ones. we went to this guys house that was taring down his 600 gal. and we found it at the botton right along with a peice os colostria. ours is branching though

[fishboy19]

I'll get a pic of mine up tomorrow.

-MatthewM

[Dejan]

i doubt there are real white ones as you describe... to photosynthesise the zooxanthellae use pigments, and without the pigments it cant photosynthesise. so i think you are safe in the assumption that white = bleached...

[jjmcat]

dejan would a coral bleach in lighting that is less than 1 watt per gallon?

[jjmcat]

you know what happens when you assume dejan

[Steven Pro]

Originally posted by jjmcat
dejan would a coral bleach in lighting that is less than 1 watt per gallon?

Yes. The symbiotic algae would not receive sufficient light to live. Once it dies, that would leave behind a bleached coral, which would likely die soon thereafter.

[jjmcat]

So when would the hammer regain its color.No change in two weeks yet and has plenty of light now.

[xdusty6920]

i tried like crazy to get a pic and cant get a decent one. because of its placement, and my photography skills (lack of) lol. but yes, its completely white, pure white. kinda like what jjmcat posted a pic of but it has no pinkish tinge. its under a few 250w mh's and its bean doing great for 7 months now so there goes the zooxanthellae theory. not sure but man i need to work out this camera thing. but the more i mess with it the more hopeless i feel

[Steven Pro]

Originally posted by jjmcat
So when would the hammer regain its color.No change in two weeks yet and has plenty of light now.

It can take months for a coral to recover and become repopulated with zooxanthellae.

[saltyseaman]

Here is one I saw while Diving in Indonesia

[fishboy19]

Heres mine, its been that way for a long time and its healthy. I love it.

-MatthewM

[Steven Pro]

I would not call either of the two pictured above white. They both look like very nice, healthy colonies.

[fishboy19]

what then would you call them?

-MatthewM

[Steven Pro]

Originally posted by fishboy19
what then would you call them?

-MatthewM

Yours looks like a pretty baby blue to me. The other one is a pale green with patches of blue-purple.

[fishboy19]

Well its under 20k lights, so that kinda gives it that hue, but its more of a white in real life.

-MatthewM

[xdusty6920]

im really not trying to sound rude so forgive me if i sound that way but those arent what i was refering to. i dont mean kinda white, or whitish, or even some white. i mean white white. like paper, like snow, like the background im typing on, like michael jacksons skin.