Green hammer coral dropping babies

[clown99]

The mother hammer coral has been growing for 2 and 1/2 years, from 1 head to 13 heads. Today I notice a baby one on the same rock. I'm not sure when or how it was dropped.

About 6 months ago, another hammer polyp was dropped on the sand, not bigger than a pin head. I put in on a rock and now it is about pea-sized.

 

[tnewell]

I have never seen a hammer do this, only torches.... awesome!!

 

[ScottR]

I’ve had a torch do this. Congrats! Free hammer.

 

[Bob LI]

I've had Hammers for a dozen years or so and just noticed them dropping/dripping heads. The coral seems fine, but now quite a few are doing this. If the dropped piece winds up in a dark location, it disappears in a few days. If it lands in a place where there is adequate light, it begins to grow and starts a new

piece of hard coral.

This is a photo in the morning with two drips circled, and a shot in the afternoon. Is this normal?

 

[clown99]

My hammer coral also did this. I found this out because suddenly there was a pin-size hammer coral on the sand. It was just a single polyp. Now it grew into a thumb-size head. I am guessing that maybe it thinks there's no more room to grow so it just drops polyps.

 

[Unregistered1]

Very cool and interesting...i never knew they did that

 

[Bob LI]

My hammer coral also did this. I found this out because suddenly there was a pin-size hammer coral on the sand. It was just a single polyp. Now it grew into a thumb-size head. I am guessing that maybe it thinks there's no more room to grow so it just drops polyps.

The Hammers are crowding each other, so that may be the case. I've also noticed some "dropings" where the Hammer is touching the glass.