Having got my first Wall type hammer after caring for the branching variety for a while now, I have a few questions...
On a branching hammer, it's clear each "head" is a single polyp, with one mouth, that will occasionally split and grow, upwards, into new heads.
What happens with a wall hammer? Are there multiple polyps? Or is it a single large "giant" polyp? How many mouths are there? Multiple ones spread out? Or just a big one in the middle somewhere? Do they grow outwards and upwards, line a cone? Or can they grow sideways, putting down calcium carbonate as they go, like SPS do?
Thanks for the time!
On a branching hammer, it's clear each "head" is a single polyp, with one mouth, that will occasionally split and grow, upwards, into new heads.
What happens with a wall hammer? Are there multiple polyps? Or is it a single large "giant" polyp? How many mouths are there? Multiple ones spread out? Or just a big one in the middle somewhere? Do they grow outwards and upwards, line a cone? Or can they grow sideways, putting down calcium carbonate as they go, like SPS do?
Thanks for the time!
