Is this normal growth on my hammer

Dustinjw18 · Nov 5, 2021

It seems my hammer coral has new hammers and spots growing from other hammers is that normal? Not sure if I'm wording it correctly so I'll circle it in the pictures. Also does it look healthy? Most hammers is see aren't showing their mouths just fully surrounded by its hammers mine for the last week have been opened enough I have seen a large portion of its flesh. Looks good to me but I don't know as much as some of yall out here. Thought I had a picture of it opened but guess I took this after I blew the rocks down. Will add another shot of how wide its opening tomorrow

Spieg · Nov 5, 2021

That is a bit unusual. Maybe the result of some trauma to that area or maybe sprouting a new head?

Dustinjw18 · Nov 5, 2021

Dustinjw18 said:
It seems my hammer coral has new hammers and spots growing from other hammers is that normal? Not sure if I'm wording it correctly so I'll circle it in the pictures. Also does it look healthy? Most hammers is see aren't showing their mouths just fully surrounded by its hammers mine for the last week have been opened enough I have seen a large portion of its flesh. Looks good to me but I don't know as much as some of yall out here. Thought I had a picture of it opened but guess I took this after I blew the rocks down. Will add another shot of how wide its opening tomorrow

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Dustinjw18 · Nov 5, 2021

Spieg said:
That is a bit unusual. Maybe the result of some trauma to that area or maybe sprouting a new head?

I'm not aware of any trauma he may have sustained the spots that started showing up looked like the spots on our matching octospawn

Dustinjw18 · Nov 7, 2021

attiland · Nov 7, 2021

Dustinjw18 said:
It seems my hammer coral has new hammers and spots growing from other hammers is that normal? Not sure if I'm wording it correctly so I'll circle it in the pictures. Also does it look healthy? Most hammers is see aren't showing their mouths just fully surrounded by its hammers mine for the last week have been opened enough I have seen a large portion of its flesh. Looks good to me but I don't know as much as some of yall out here. Thought I had a picture of it opened but guess I took this after I blew the rocks down. Will add another shot of how wide its opening tomorrow

While it is an unusual growth I wouldn’t be worried as the coral otherwise looks happy