Euphyllia

[polyppal]

This tanks getting close to being ready for corals, so I’m starting to explore options and placement. I’m looking at populating this ledge with some form of Euphyllia, prob a large exotic looking hammer or elegance.

Would anyone with elegance experience say they are more difficult to keep them other hammers/torches? Any other suggestions on what Euphyllia would look nice there (besides torches)?

Ledge is about 7”x3”.

 

[RobB'z Reef]

You can locate hammers and frogspawn together and they can look great and compliment each other well.

 

[Macbalacano]

Personally, i'd keep elegance on the sand. If you keep one on that ledge, be prepared for it to fluff up quite big. They're very aggressive so you can't have anything close to it.

If it were me, i'd do a hammer or torch garden there with different kinds of hammers or torches beside each other of different colours.

You could do one big colony, but I think a bunch of smaller ones looks cooler.

I'd stay away from wall hammers unless you really love it and stick with branching ones. They are much easier to keep as they are more hardy and less sensitive.

Just my 2 cents!

 

[polyppal]

Personally, i'd keep elegance on the sand. If you keep one on that ledge, be prepared for it to fluff up quite big. They're very aggressive so you can't have anything close to it.

If it were me, i'd do a hammer or torch garden there with different kinds of hammers or torches beside each other of different colours.

You could do one big colony, but I think a bunch of smaller ones looks cooler.

I'd stay away from wall hammers unless you really love it and stick with branching ones. They are much easier to keep as they are more hardy and less sensitive.

Just my 2 cents!

Thanks! I’m thinking about getting a good size orange hammer and green hammer and fragging them in alternating colors along the ridge... they should get along with other as long as they’re both branches right?

 

[polyppal]

You can locate hammers and frogspawn together and they can look great and compliment each other well.

I love frogspawns, I’m thinking another platform will be dedicated to them too

 

[vetteguy53081]

This tanks getting close to being ready for corals, so I’m starting to explore options and placement. I’m looking at populating this ledge with some form of Euphyllia, prob a large exotic looking hammer or elegance.

Would anyone with elegance experience say they are more difficult to keep them other hammers/torches? Any other suggestions on what Euphyllia would look nice there (besides torches)?

Ledge is about 7”x3”.

Elegance easy under proper tank conditions
Elegance best in sand bed
That location good for euphyllia

mine:

 

[RobB'z Reef]

I love frogspawns, I’m thinking another platform will be dedicated to them too

Awesome, I have this love affair with euphyllia lol. I'm working on a frogspawn/hammer 'flower bouquet'. Good luck on your choices!

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

Id stick gold frogspawn on that sucker then a nice dragon soul in front for contrast... How big is your tank... elegance get big bro....

 

[RobB'z Reef]

Elegance easy under proper tank conditions
Elegance best in sand bed
That location good for euphyllia

mine:

Those get pretty big right? Do you target feed it anything?

 

[PicassoClown04]

I love that ledge!! Personally I would do a mix of wall and branching hammers there. IME, wall hammers look much fuller than branching hammers and fluff up really nicely. I have not experienced that wall hammers are more difficult than branching ones. I also have an elegance coral on my rocks, I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t put one there just know you can’t really have anything too close to it

 

[mdb_talon]

Personal experience i find elegance much harder than torch/hammer/frogspawn. Tried twice now and they died within a year each time. I know many people have great luck with them just saying my experience.

 

[polyppal]

I love that ledge!! Personally I would do a mix of wall and branching hammers there. IME, wall hammers look much fuller than branching hammers and fluff up really nicely. I have not experienced that wall hammers are more difficult than branching ones. I also have an elegance coral on my rocks, I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t put one there just know you can’t really have anything too close to it

Is there any issue fragging wall hammers compared to just cutting heads on branching?

 

[Tiki Reef Joshua]

Im telling you... put gold tipped frogspawn on that ledge and some type of green tipped indo torch on the sand in front of it... it will be instagram quality.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Those get pretty big right? Do you target feed it anything?

I feed it nothing. There’s enough suspended food to give it a meal

 

[codycolina707]

This tanks getting close to being ready for corals, so I’m starting to explore options and placement. I’m looking at populating this ledge with some form of Euphyllia, prob a large exotic looking hammer or elegance.

Would anyone with elegance experience say they are more difficult to keep them other hammers/torches? Any other suggestions on what Euphyllia would look nice there (besides torches)?

Ledge is about 7”x3”.

my experience not much but torches are harder to keep than both hammers and elegance i have all 3 i move the elegance all over the tank it doesnt mind opens up big where ever i put it move a torch around like that and it will die 100%

 

[polyppal]

I love that ledge!! Personally I would do a mix of wall and branching hammers there. IME, wall hammers look much fuller than branching hammers and fluff up really nicely. I have not experienced that wall hammers are more difficult than branching ones. I also have an elegance coral on my rocks, I don’t see any reason why you couldn’t put one there just know you can’t really have anything too close to it

thanks! Yeah the shelf is angled a little bit, about 20deg away from the straight shelves, I was hoping if I put something aggressive there that it’s sweepers would push out toward the glass and not be a threat to anything

 

[PicassoClown04]

thanks! Yeah the shelf is angled a little bit, about 20deg away from the straight shelves, I was hoping if I put something aggressive there that it’s sweepers would push out toward the glass and not be a threat to anything

If you plan your flow correctly, that’s exactly what’ll happen!

 

[PicassoClown04]

Is there any issue fragging wall hammers compared to just cutting heads on branching?

I’ve never attempted it, too scared

 

[RobB'z Reef]

I'm honestly not sure which kind of hammer this (branching or wall) is, but I love this piece and it fills out so nicely in my tank. My guess is it's branching tho. Something full like this would look good on that shelf (in whatever color you prefer).

 

[PicassoClown04]

I'm honestly not sure which kind of hammer this (branching or wall) is, but I love this piece and it fills out so nicely in my tank. Something full like this would look good on that shelf (in whatever color you prefer).

Looks great! Probably a branching based on the shape. When it closes at night, are there seperate little heads or is it a long river of tentacles?