Hammer VS Mushroom

I would think the hammer could sting the mushroom but I have heard that shrooms can expell chemicals that hurt other corals. I would think if your shroom is close enough for the hammer to touch it would be stung.
 
My hammer wins this battle every time. The mushroom hangs tough for a while, but eventually starts to look white'ish and ragged around the areas that the hammer can reach. Time to move the hammer, once again. They don't seem to mind though, growing like weeds.
 
LOL - No bets. I have 2 headed hammer, center head is fading. I would have thought Hammer would win, however there are exceptions.

Mushrooms - Very nice weeds! I have 600 red ones!
 
I wish I could get rid of my mushrooms. In general, I have found mushrooms win except for elegance corals.
 
we would need more info to answer, i mean, is it a huge hammer vs one small mushroom, then the hammer would win for sure

but a small head of hammer coral completely surrounded by large mushroom polyps, then I might move the hammer to be safe
 
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and yes the hammer did that and almost instantly melted the mushroom to NOTHING. I mean not a trace. you can see its still in stinger tenticle mode on the second picture opposed to the first before it started the murdering.
 
Thats odd my blue shrooms did the exact opposite to my hammer. Luckily is was a branching hammer with 4 heads, so I found it in time to save the other 3 heads. And now there is 9 heads so I got lucky.
 
Why would you want to take two expensive corals and place them so close together they fight and one of them gets wasted. It's not like feeding cheap goldfish to big cichlids or arrowana. Some of you rich kids need to get a life and better things to do.
 
In that case since you're seeking help and not on a seek and destroy mission you have to give corals space. Corals like euphyllia (hammer, torch, frogspawn) galaxia, goniopora, and other similar corals send out fighting "tenatacles" or nemotocysts. It is tricky since these can come on at night when the lights are out and you're asleep. I don't think anyone can give you a magic formula how far apart to spread your corals. It depends on the current in your tank. Understand nematocysts can be far longer than regular tentacles. You may think you're giving enough room and all of a sudden you witness coral damage.
 
torches and hammers should be fine together

stanalee, I would move the hammer, because it seems a bit close to that Xenia as well
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15382468#post15382468 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rando45
torches and hammers should be fine together

stanalee, I would move the hammer, because it seems a bit close to that Xenia as well
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that pic is like two years old, I dont even have that tank but I could have cared less if it zapped the xenia. I thought I removed the xenia from my system and it grew from a specket of flesh still left on the rock. the hammer was close the mushroom for some time and prior to that never developed sweeper tenticles but the day that happened long stinger sweepers were flying everywhere.
 
I think I have a very radical Torch, it is beating up on mushroom now!

Maybe the center Hammer head had different problem, do the heads "compete" with each other?
 
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