Is my Hammer about to spawn?

Highgrade · Mar 24, 2019

I noticed my Yellow/Green hammer I picked up from last TSA sale appears to have eggs embedded in the tissue. Not sure it these are euphyllia eggs or possible parasite/hitchhiker eggs. The hammer has been doing great and has doubled in size. Currently it still resides in my QT tank. Should I be concerned or excited?

Firemanreefkeeper · Mar 24, 2019

Never seen that before. When mine grows it makes new heads by branching out. One usually splits into 2 then they grow longer and extend away from each other before splitting again. I fragged it and have about 15 now that are starting to split again.

Highgrade · Mar 24, 2019

Firemanreefkeeper said:
Never seen that before. When mine grows it makes new heads by branching out. One usually splits into 2 then they grow longer and extend away from each other before splitting again. I fragged it and have about 15 now that are starting to split again.

Most of my others branch(unless they're wall hammers) but I'm pretty sure euphyllia spawn as well.

Rick.45cal · Mar 24, 2019

Maybe #Reefsquad can help

Highgrade · Mar 24, 2019

Definitely appears to be releasing eggs. Trying to get a video. Here’s another pic. Top left and to the right of the hammer there are what appear to be eggs being expelled one at a time.

DSC reef · Mar 25, 2019

Pretty cool, looks like gammets to me.

Highgrade · Mar 25, 2019

DSC reef said:
Pretty cool, looks like gammets to me.

Definitely appears to be gametes. When the lights came on this morning it appeared that they all were expelled from the hammer. Guess I'll have to wait and see if anything eventually grows from them. Highly unlikely I would think. Wondering if this was just a fluke or if the recent full moon had something to do with it. I have several other Euphyllia -hammers, torches and frogspawn all in the same tank. None of the others seemed any different from what I could tell. Too bad this wasn't occurring in my Dragon Soul torch. ;Wideyed