View Full Version : spotfeed hammer?
sir_dudeguy
03/07/2007, 10:53 PM
do hammers need to be spotfed? If so...what?
Caleb Kruse
03/08/2007, 12:52 AM
My LFS has a Branching hammer with about a 6 foot circumference and they said that you should only feed it if you want it to grow faster.
phurst
03/08/2007, 08:46 AM
Mine catch mysis out of the waer column at feeding time, but no, it's not strictly necessary.
ionredline0260
03/08/2007, 09:10 AM
recently I've been target feeding my frogspawn ( close to the same right?) and it seems to really like cyclopeeze. It's not THAT hard to do and if it makes it grow faster why not?
NanoReefWanabe
03/08/2007, 09:16 AM
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9423716#post9423716 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Caleb Kruse
My LFS has a Branching hammer with about a 6 foot circumference and they said that you should only feed it if you want it to grow faster.
holy ridiculously big hammer!!! 8 pounds of mysis going in...
i dont feed mine anything special...just what it pulls from the water..Brine, pods i guess, phyto...i dont know what they like to eat..but mine is doing well..mine has five fully branched heads and about 20 little guys sticking out the sides..
sir_dudeguy
03/08/2007, 02:02 PM
ya that hammer is too big...they need to send me about...a foot of it lol.
But ya, thanks everyone. I hadnt been spot feeding mine, but i did see it catching a bit of mysis yesterday which is why i asked. Also...could some of you post pics of your hammer corals? I'd like to see what they're sposed to look like because i think mine might be coming out too far altho its got plenty of light (4x96 on a 40 breeder). How far exactly is it sposed to come out?
Caleb Kruse
03/09/2007, 01:27 AM
Next time I go to my LFS I'll get a pic of it.
musty baby
03/09/2007, 02:12 AM
Is there any measurement more misleading than circumference? :) I'll admit a 2' wide hammer is pretty damned big, but who honestly measures in circumference?! Does the LFS have it on a sign or something? :D
Back on topic, hammers/frogspawns/torches all seem to grow like mad under good conditions, so I'd recommend either not feeding it or feeding it until it's as big as you want it to be, then stopping entirely.
NanoReefWanabe
03/09/2007, 08:59 AM
this is what mine looks like...
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l46/crazyoldcougar/IMG_3113.jpg
and a bit further out for a size idea...it has five heads and i cant even count how many little ones are on it..
http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l46/crazyoldcougar/IMG_3104.jpg
sir_dudeguy
03/09/2007, 11:58 AM
thanks for the pics. Your hammer is a bit different than mine i guess. I've got the bright green colored one, but pretty much the same (altho the polyps look a bit fatter near the base on yours)
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