Hammer coral growth

[somewherebeyondthesea]

That's interesting that u mentioned that as I had a similar experience, to answer your question though, I believe it is safe the cut the bottom, just make sure you don't have baby heads growing. My frogspawn went from two heads to 5 big and 4 baby ones!

Don't let the fleshy part touch the other corals, two heads from my candy cane had died as a result of that.


Cheers,




Steve

[Werbo]

A pic would help. From what you described you can cut the bottom dead skeleton portion. I wouldn't cut withing 2-3 inches of the heads where the living tissue is.

I predrilled my live rock to accept skinny acrylic rods. I can then drill the bottom dead portions of the hammer/frogspawn/torch skeleton. Place a rod in the 1/2 inch hole and crazy glue the acrylic rod into the skeleton. As the coral grows I can move it around within the live rock structure

[Baldy]

I thought that the bottom was dead skeleton until I pulled it out of the sand and realized it had grown another 3 inches. Now I'm not so sure it's dead