New Branches?

[AzMandella]

After getting my tank back to proper peramiters after gross negligence I treated the tank to a new addition. A branching hammer. I noticed a couple of spots where little 1/2" peices of the outer branch were popping off. Are these new branches forming?

 

[AIMFish]

New growth will usually be higher up. I call them "babies" for lack of a more appropriate term. I get them on one of my Frogspawns and they are right under the head where the stalk is still white.

 

[reef321]

I had a couple mini-stalks like that growing on my hammer. i don't think anything ever came out of them though.

 

[02REDZ28]

If you're talking about the little red things, those aren't baby hammers. They are called forams. Forams are small benthic filter feeders that produce a calcium carbonate skeleton like many corals we keep....

 

[AzMandella]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11858734#post11858734 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 02REDZ28
If you're talking about the little red things, those aren't baby hammers. They are called forams. Forams are small benthic filter feeders that produce a calcium carbonate skeleton like many corals we keep....

NO I am talking about the round part right above what you are talking about and just below the dead head. It was a round bump and then the outside peeled off like a scab coming off. There is actually two places that it happened.

 

[DetectiveTofu]

I have observed what you're speaking of on both my frogspawn and my hammer coral, however nothing ever became of them. Usually new heads will split from an existing head, or a new head will sort of bud from the base of an existing head.