Downside to leaving plug?

[mattevo]

New hammer. What’s the downside to leaving the plug? Does everyone remove all the time or ok to leave and let him grow over it?

 

[Channas]

New hammer. What’s the downside to leaving the plug? Does everyone remove all the time or ok to leave and let him grow over it?

The hammers will never grow over the plug, that plug Will foreverbe visible, the doenside to keeping pluggs is that they may contain pests. Whenever i get any kind of ephyllia i remove the plugg straight away they are easy to move either way and the plugs in my opinion are ugly, it clearly looks like it doesnt belong

 

[mattevo]

The hammer won’t grow over the plug? So I should remove it? I agree it’s ugly.

 

[Channas]

The hammer won’t grow over the plug? So I should remove it? I agree it’s ugly.

The hammer won’t grow over the plug? So I should remove it? I agree it’s ugly.

nope unless its a Walling hammer but it doesnt look like one

 

[Channas]

Though in your case i would leave it on there for a while before removal due to the small size of the frag, there is a chance you might i injure the coral when you remove it. I would wait until it has grown a little so you can get a better grip of the coral skeleton so you dont touch the flesh band

 

[Channas]

But generally, hammers frogspawn torches (all ephyllia that are branching) dont grow over the plugs they expand up and not side ways, gonipora is one type of lps coral that do grow over frag plugs among many more Lps coral species and all sps corals do it as Well as far as i know.