Hammer Coral

[Shark_Bait]

I know that these can be aggresive sometimes sending out "sweepers" that might sting neighboring corals; But what about another hammer coral. I just finished a maojor tank overhaul which always results in a layout design. I have 3 frags of branching hammer with 2 heads on each. If I group them together will they sting each other or just different spieces of coral?

Also has anyone used the Texas holey rock in thier reef tank? Good/Bad just another rock?

[C.Mydas]

hammer on hammer SHOULD BE fine. Ive come to the conclusion that it depends on the coral..lol. Ive got hammer, frogspawn, and torch touching each other with no probs. (they are all in the same family, and notorious for sweepers). The only one Ive had send out sweepers is my galaxia. Ive seen the same thing asked on RC and the consensus seems to be that it really depends on the individual coral.

You can aim the flow (not too much obviously or you'll blow the flesh off the skeleton) in that general direction and blow the sweepers away from your other corals.

-Christina

[bprewit]

I have a couple of larger pieces of holey rock in my tank. It is way heavy and dosent seem to grow coralline on it as fast but it does have some nice holes to stick corals in so that they dont fall over.

[GaryP]

I used the power head trick on my huge galaxea for several years. It worked well. The galaxea is in the tank at Thai Canyon now. I hated to get rid of it but I was running out of room for SPS. I had it in a corner of my tank next to a big frog spawn. I just let the two of them fight it out.

[Shark_Bait]

Thanks for the info.. Looks alot better with them as on big group then a bunch of little pieces all over.

Thanks for the onfo on the rock too

[Richard]

You can group all of the euphyllia species together (frogspawn, hammer, torch). Makes for a cool display.