unusual Hammer coral
- Thread starter Gary Majchrzak
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Conesus_Kid
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Sorry! I'll take full responsibility for this one!
It is a testament to the influence beer has over us... :beer:
block head
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it's funny when i lived CO ,people payed good money for genny. sorry for the D rail gary. i dig mutant corals.
livingstone
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Now I'm very thirsty and it's only 10:29 Friday morning!
livingstone
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Oh...and that's a gorgeous Hammer, Gary!
jefathome
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I was at a Phish (no, not fish, PHISH) festival out here in SoCal a few weeks back and Sierra Nevada brewed a special beer called FOAM.
LOL... Foam at a Phish show is NOT like drinking Skimmate. It was VERY good.
:celeb3:
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
thanks, all
thanks, all
----> advanced hammer coral question <-----
is it okay for branching hammer (E. parancora) to touch against wall hammer?
(sure.... we've all heard that Euphyllia can touch but I've seen Torch corals get destroyed by other Euphyllia overnight after living next door for several years with no problems. That's why I'm asking this.)
Has anybody kept wall hammer and branch hammer in contact with no problem for an extended period of time?
thanks, all
----> advanced hammer coral question <-----
is it okay for branching hammer (E. parancora) to touch against wall hammer?
(sure.... we've all heard that Euphyllia can touch but I've seen Torch corals get destroyed by other Euphyllia overnight after living next door for several years with no problems. That's why I'm asking this.)
Has anybody kept wall hammer and branch hammer in contact with no problem for an extended period of time?
GMaquarium
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I just had a large wall hammer next to a branch hammer and they touched. Both corals were fine and not effected by it in any way. However this was only for about a month until one of the hammers was sold.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
odd...
odd...
it's almost EXACTLY 3 years later to the day and I thought of this thread.
Anyways... I still have this wall hammer. It's a great piece but a slow grower...which makes it all that much more valuable.
Thanks to Tom at TRS for pointing it out to me 3 years ago.
odd...
it's almost EXACTLY 3 years later to the day and I thought of this thread.
Anyways... I still have this wall hammer. It's a great piece but a slow grower...which makes it all that much more valuable.
Thanks to Tom at TRS for pointing it out to me 3 years ago.
der_wille_zur_macht
Team RC
Drat. I saw the thread resurface and I was hoping it was going to be because you were offering frags since it had grown so fast. 
saltwaterpicaso
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great looking hammer now back to the beer lol saranac brought out a beer called shandy that is a really good tasting summer beer. then saranac pumkin ale is good too
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
yes. You can frag almost any coral- even Plerogyra (bubble corals) and wall hammers.
der_wille_zur_macht
Team RC
I've never had a "wall" type euphyllia (i.e. one with fused corallites) grow fast in ANY system so I'd assume it's universal.
Though I think we have to be careful with what we mean by "grow fast." The nature of a coral like this is that the growth in mass can be hidden because it is naturally more dense. I would wonder what would happen if you weighted the coral on a regular basis and compared it to branching euphyllias on a weight basis. Even though it is not getting big quickly in terms of apparent volume it may actually be growing fast.
Though I think we have to be careful with what we mean by "grow fast." The nature of a coral like this is that the growth in mass can be hidden because it is naturally more dense. I would wonder what would happen if you weighted the coral on a regular basis and compared it to branching euphyllias on a weight basis. Even though it is not getting big quickly in terms of apparent volume it may actually be growing fast.
der_wille_zur_macht
Team RC
I've never had a "wall" type euphyllia (i.e. one with fused corallites) grow fast in ANY system so I'd assume it's universal.
Though I think we have to be careful with what we mean by "grow fast." The nature of a coral like this is that the growth in mass can be hidden because it is naturally more dense. I would wonder what would happen if you weighted the coral on a regular basis and compared it to branching euphyllias on a weight basis. Even though it is not getting big quickly in terms of apparent volume it may actually be growing fast.
Though I think we have to be careful with what we mean by "grow fast." The nature of a coral like this is that the growth in mass can be hidden because it is naturally more dense. I would wonder what would happen if you weighted the coral on a regular basis and compared it to branching euphyllias on a weight basis. Even though it is not getting big quickly in terms of apparent volume it may actually be growing fast.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
true
true
"growing fast" is purely subjective.
In my aquarium corals tend to grow really thick so growth is not readily apparent in a lot of them. (People tend to notice height and width- not mass.)
That being said, I know that ALL of my Euphyllia might grow faster if not in a "clean" SPS type aquarium such as mine.
I already frag many corals quite regularly and I'm not really concerned that my Euphyllia aren't exploding in growth.
Considering the fact that I have a very large Angelfish in the same aquarium, I'm happy just to have my Euphyllia!
true
"growing fast" is purely subjective.
In my aquarium corals tend to grow really thick so growth is not readily apparent in a lot of them. (People tend to notice height and width- not mass.)
That being said, I know that ALL of my Euphyllia might grow faster if not in a "clean" SPS type aquarium such as mine.
I already frag many corals quite regularly and I'm not really concerned that my Euphyllia aren't exploding in growth.
Considering the fact that I have a very large Angelfish in the same aquarium, I'm happy just to have my Euphyllia!
iamwrasseman
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hey Gary i have many wall hammers touching torches and frogspawns in a tightly packed tank here at my house and have not seen this happen yet , 3 yrs. my display tank at the shop has numerous hammers,torches,frogspawns touching and i have had no problems there either and that has been for a year .
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