I bought a single head of green branching hammer back in early December and have experienced no growth at all. It's still the same size that it was when I brought it home. It's about 18" from T5s in the bottom of my tank with lower medium flow. I'm just wondering what kind of growth rates I should be expecting or if there's anything I can do to speed up the process? I feed coral frenzy twice weekly but haven't been target feeding until this past week.
Hammer Coral Growth Question
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What's your flow on those? That's some super good growth.
jacksonpt
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A pair of MP10s and a little flow from my return (eheim 1262). It took a long time for it to start growing, but once it did it took off and hasn't looked back.
rodster912000
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what are you useing to target feed??
EllieSuz
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This is a DIY feeder. It uses a syringe from the drugstore for medicating infants and a long piece of rigid airline tubing connected to the syringe with a little piece of soft tube. I also put an inch of soft tubing on the end.
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rodster912000
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are you feeding mysis with that syringe to your hammers
Feeding seems to help,ime.
FWIW Euphylia sustain well in my low nutrient system under halide lightin but don't grow nearly as much as they did in a tank with less skimming and higher PO4(>0.10and NO3.20ppm) and only moderate p/c lighting.
I'm guessing they have a higher% of need for organic carbon( are more heterotrophic) than say sps( more autotrophic) and may get some of it from absorbing it from the water like xenia are thought to do.
I moved a head of torch( euphylia galbrescens) and a small head of frogspawn (euphylia divisa) from the main system to a 65 gallon tank which is run off a canister filter with a very weak skimmer ( Red Sea prism), just 2 96w 50/50 bulbs ,last week. There doing fine but it's too soon to compare growth.
FWIW Euphylia sustain well in my low nutrient system under halide lightin but don't grow nearly as much as they did in a tank with less skimming and higher PO4(>0.10and NO3.20ppm) and only moderate p/c lighting.
I'm guessing they have a higher% of need for organic carbon( are more heterotrophic) than say sps( more autotrophic) and may get some of it from absorbing it from the water like xenia are thought to do.
I moved a head of torch( euphylia galbrescens) and a small head of frogspawn (euphylia divisa) from the main system to a 65 gallon tank which is run off a canister filter with a very weak skimmer ( Red Sea prism), just 2 96w 50/50 bulbs ,last week. There doing fine but it's too soon to compare growth.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
'Coral Frenzy' is good stuff but hammers can take much larger foods. You might want to try HUFA enriched brine shrimp or mysids.
tip: feed the whole reef aquarium heavily one day before doing the water change.
tip: feed the whole reef aquarium heavily one day before doing the water change.
boosted chemist
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I use a turkey baster to get mine, Usually i toss in a small piece of rods food, turn of the mag pump and allow the mp10 to move it around. This "wakes" up most the lps, then after 15 min, i use the baster to hit the NPS and LPS (including torch and hammers). My one torch was doing bad, but since I have made it a point to really target feed it, its seems to be bouncing back.
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