sir_dudeguy
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do hammers need to be spotfed? If so...what?
spotfeed hammer?
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Caleb Kruse
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My LFS has a Branching hammer with about a 6 foot circumference and they said that you should only feed it if you want it to grow faster.
ionredline0260
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recently I've been target feeding my frogspawn ( close to the same right?) and it seems to really like cyclopeeze. It's not THAT hard to do and if it makes it grow faster why not?
NanoReefWanabe
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holy ridiculously big hammer!!! 8 pounds of mysis going in...
i dont feed mine anything special...just what it pulls from the water..Brine, pods i guess, phyto...i dont know what they like to eat..but mine is doing well..mine has five fully branched heads and about 20 little guys sticking out the sides..
sir_dudeguy
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ya that hammer is too big...they need to send me about...a foot of it lol.
But ya, thanks everyone. I hadnt been spot feeding mine, but i did see it catching a bit of mysis yesterday which is why i asked. Also...could some of you post pics of your hammer corals? I'd like to see what they're sposed to look like because i think mine might be coming out too far altho its got plenty of light (4x96 on a 40 breeder). How far exactly is it sposed to come out?
But ya, thanks everyone. I hadnt been spot feeding mine, but i did see it catching a bit of mysis yesterday which is why i asked. Also...could some of you post pics of your hammer corals? I'd like to see what they're sposed to look like because i think mine might be coming out too far altho its got plenty of light (4x96 on a 40 breeder). How far exactly is it sposed to come out?
Caleb Kruse
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Next time I go to my LFS I'll get a pic of it.
musty baby
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Is there any measurement more misleading than circumference? 
I'll admit a 2' wide hammer is pretty damned big, but who honestly measures in circumference?! Does the LFS have it on a sign or something? 
Back on topic, hammers/frogspawns/torches all seem to grow like mad under good conditions, so I'd recommend either not feeding it or feeding it until it's as big as you want it to be, then stopping entirely.
I'll admit a 2' wide hammer is pretty damned big, but who honestly measures in circumference?! Does the LFS have it on a sign or something? Back on topic, hammers/frogspawns/torches all seem to grow like mad under good conditions, so I'd recommend either not feeding it or feeding it until it's as big as you want it to be, then stopping entirely.
NanoReefWanabe
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this is what mine looks like...
and a bit further out for a size idea...it has five heads and i cant even count how many little ones are on it..
and a bit further out for a size idea...it has five heads and i cant even count how many little ones are on it..
sir_dudeguy
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thanks for the pics. Your hammer is a bit different than mine i guess. I've got the bright green colored one, but pretty much the same (altho the polyps look a bit fatter near the base on yours)
