hammer question

[untamed]

Sometimes they discharge long threads...to me it looks like 'poop'. Normal.

[marie]

Hammer corals will put out sweeper tentacles when they sense another coral is growing too close to them. These sweepers look like elongated tentacles, that can be sometimes 4" to 5" longer then its normal tentacle length. These sweepers can also pack quite a sting so if you have other corals in the vicinity you might want to move them

[Kabong]

Marie's got it right,
My hammer does the same thing if it thinks anything is to close to it.
Don't under estimate how much damage it can do either.
I had a candy cane frag that got in its line of fire and overnite it destroyed a entire head with just one sweeper tentacle

[OCDP]

My bad.. the only reason I said that was becuase I had a piece of this hammer and it was all by itself with no corals around it, and I always seen it like this. I just assumed it was growth oops.

[dunl]

Two shrooms next to it, nothing else.....


Second question.....can you frag these by splitting the head in two, and letting it regenerate?

[OCDP]

As long as your not fragging near any flesh at all, and are cutting the skeleton (the hard bone-like part ) then you're okay. Just stay away from any fleshy bits or parts of the coral, period. If any flesh is damaged the coral is at risk

HTH, (im not a fragging wizard like some on here..)

[Joe Reefer]

In my experience, Euphylia can develop longer stringy tenticles when too much flow is directed toward them.