🍌🌼 Euphyllia ancora “Banana Hammer”
Golden Banana Hammer Coral – Similar to Photos
🔹 Quick Stats
Care Level: Moderate
Temperament: Semi-aggressive (can extend sweeper tentacles; allow spacing)
Colour Form: The Banana Hammer Euphyllia displays bright banana-yellow tentacles with warm golden highlights and soft lemon tones across the hammer-shaped tips. Under actinic lighting the coral glows with strong neon-yellow fluorescence, producing a vivid golden glow across the flowing tentacles. Under balanced white lighting the coral reveals natural gradients of ripe banana yellow, honey gold and soft citrus hues that give the coral a bright tropical appearance.
Water Conditions: 24–26 °C, dKH 7.5–9, pH 8.0–8.4, sg 1.024–1.026
Family: Euphylliidae
Lighting: Moderate (PAR 80–150)
Water Flow: Moderate, indirect and oscillating
Placement: Mid to lower rockwork
Type: Similar to Photos
🧬 Overview
The Euphyllia ancora “Banana Hammer” is a vibrant hammer coral known for its bright golden-yellow coloration and flowing hammer-shaped tentacles. This warm colour morph stands out strongly among traditional green hammer corals and adds a bright tropical highlight to reef aquascapes.
The fleshy polyps expand during the day and sway gently with reef flow, creating beautiful movement and a lively presence within the aquarium.
As the coral grows, new heads develop along the branching skeleton, gradually forming larger clusters of glowing hammer polyps.
Similar to Photos:
You will receive a healthy coral similar in size and colour to the reference photos. Natural variation between individual pieces is normal.
Selected for:
• Bright banana-yellow coloration
• Thick flowing hammer tentacles
• Healthy inflated polyps
• Strong skeletal structure
• Excellent fluorescence under reef LED lighting
🍽️ Care & Feeding
Hammer corals benefit from occasional feeding which can support stronger growth and larger polyp expansion.
Recommended feeding 1–2× weekly:
• Mysis shrimp or finely chopped seafood
• Reef roids or LPS coral foods
• Target feeding with gentle flow paused
📈 Optimal Parameters
Parameter | Ideal Range
Alkalinity (dKH) | 7.5–9
Calcium (Ca) | 420–450 ppm
Magnesium (Mg) | 1300–1400 ppm
Nitrate (NO₃) | 5–20 ppm
Phosphate (PO₄) | 0.03–0.10 ppm
📍 Placement
Place in the mid to lower areas of the aquascape where moderate lighting and gentle oscillating flow allow the tentacles to move naturally.
Allow adequate spacing from neighbouring corals, as Euphyllia species can extend sweeper tentacles.
🍌 Euphyllia ancora “Banana Hammer”
Glowing banana-yellow hammer tentacles with elegant movement — a bright Euphyllia that brings tropical colour and motion to any reef aquarium.