What Coral would you pick?

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Jaymann

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I am trying to decide what center piece coral for the top middle of my 46 gallon tank with MH lighting.

Here are the ones I was thinking..

Hammer Coral
Elegant Coral
or
Frogspawn Coral

or if you have any other suggestions let me know..
 
The 3 you have mentioned are all fairly similar in appearance and care. I would suggest that whatever you decide upon, try not to get a coral that would spread onto your rockwork. I'm currently at war with some pulsing xenia that is spreading like crazy.
 
Both the hammer and frogspawn are great choices. Unfortunately, for reasons currently unknown, very few elegance corals are living very long in captivity. Many seem to thrive for a while and then just start dying. Something to think about.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9568348#post9568348 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by awestruck
Both the hammer and frogspawn are great choices. Unfortunately, for reasons currently unknown, very few elegance corals are living very long in captivity. Many seem to thrive for a while and then just start dying. Something to think about.
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+1. This is good advice.

You may as well get a nice frog and hammer. I've got 2 good sized frogspawns, a branching hammer and a wall hammer that's about a foot long now with plenty of room to spare in my 38. The hammers are my center pieces.
 
I've had both- Frogspawn & Hammer. Both did great and both look pretty close, go with whatever one you like the best based on the look.
FWIW I could put mine close together w/o warfare between them.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9568348#post9568348 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by awestruck
Unfortunately, for reasons currently unknown, very few elegance corals are living very long in captivity. Many seem to thrive for a while and then just start dying. Something to think about.
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This is the kind of thing I keep reading over and over again concerning the Elegance. I don't have personal experience keeping corals yet, but I do have a friend with a mature, healthy tank who tried two Elegance corals within the past two months, and neither survived.

The Hammer he has, however, is doing very well, and it's a beautiful addition to his collection. I don't think you'd go wrong with it. Good luck!
 
I like both my hammer and frogspawn equally. Torch is cool to. I agree with drummer, get a monti, fun watching them grow. I keep collecting different colors I like em so much. :) I never get bored with new zoos or ricordia either..
 
Do you have specific specimens in mind here? Both hammer and frogs are awesome, I have several of each and the only way I could give an honest opinion about wich I'd go for would be to see the color options :D. I do tend to lean towards the frogspawns myself. They just look better in my opinion.

fwiw, I get alot less sweepers forming from my various frogspwans than I do any hammer I've owned. May just be my tank and flow though.
 
Just make sure you give either of them plenty of room. My hammer wiped out every coral within 6 inches of him. They extend sweeper tentacles and sting the crap out of everything they can touch.

Needless to say my hammer was demoted to the LFS.....
 
Yeh, my hammer has sweepers like no other. It is also the only coral in the tank that I am actually not fond of touching at all.
 
My bad - I dropped the ball on that elegance comment. My LFS had a nice one last week, but I didn't bite.
BTW my Favites sends out sweepers waaaaay longer than my hammers!
 
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