Feeding and care of hammers?

[ct103]

I have had LPS in the past but had a crash a few years back that wiped my tank out, Kept a fiowlr except for GSP can't kill that stuff, I have begun to get back into reefing and need a little advice. I have never kept frogspawn or hammers, looks like they like low to medium flow and low position i the tank. A friend recently gave me a large branch of hammers they look good but yesterday they began excreting slime, I know that is how they catch food and get rid of waste but will they stay closed for a time after this occurs? What, how and how often do you guys feed your hammers and frogspawn?

 

[Reeferz412]

Never, I feed ocean nutrition, rods food, and crushed jumbo krill. No target feeding necessary. I have all my lps with the exception of my torch and mid to low parts of the tank (LED lighting) with little flow hitting them.

 

[BigAl2007]

Euphyllia (specifically FrogSpawn) was my first coral and has been my favorite since day one.

From my experience they sometimes "will" feed directly but they do well without it. I've had them for over 3 years with no direct feeding. I had one colony that went from a measly 3-4 heads to well over 80 (yes that's eighty) when I had to break the tank down.

I've found they do well under intense light so long as you "acclimate" them to it gradually.

 

[reefer999]

I don`t target feed mine, I keep mine in the low part of the tank with low flow

 

[AliciaP]

I just started feeding mine. No real reason other than to see if it grew faster. Doesn't seem to matter if I feed it or not. I have it in enough flow to move it randomly, but nothing at all aimed at it.

 

[jack.lai.83]

I never target feed my frogspawn or hammer corals. I notice that sometimes when I'm feeding the SPS with coral frenzy that the LPS may send out feeding tentacles so maybe they are getting some food that way. I never target fed LPS with large food like mysis and they are going fine.

 

[sparky45]

I feed both my hammer and my frogspawn.

 

[coralsnaked]

+1 on the target feeding.

I do target feed all my LPS about X1 weekly. Acans especially double in propagation every couple of months. Closed brain nearly growls to be fed with huge feeding tenacles. Open bran same thing. Duncans, Candy get fed as well. Just started w/ Chalice and I haven't tried them yet.

I have a combo of wall hammer, bubble, and frogspawn at mid level in tank and fed ech head a couple of mysis but I limit them them X2 monthly to prevent gut rot which is common w/ this speces if over fed.

I find when they are well fed they are more tolerant of neighbors.

It is a Merry Skerry

 

[baldbean]

My torch and frogspawn are about 10" to 12" below the water line and seem to be doing well. I feed my fish frozen once a week (mysis and rods food) and give a little to my corals. The hammer and torch gobble it up.

 

[skidoctor]

A powerhead fell in my tank and my hammer took quite a beating overnight. It's been a week and 2 heads still have yet to reopen, but they have been troopers. Mid light, mid flow have always done great. Target feed occasionally. He was stunning, hope he makes a quick comeback.

 

[SushiGirl]

The hammer in our 55 doesn't eat, just slimes the food right off. It has quadrupled in size in less than a year. Our frogspawn in the 20 has doubled in size in the past few months & loves direct feeding.

 

[Spyderturbo007]

I feed my Hammer every once in awhile, maybe every other week or so. I just cut a small piece off of a regular thawed deli shrimp and feed it with that.

 

[GPB]

Don't feed my hammer. It just sits there and looks good.