Hammer and wall hammers

[GHOSTLY]

So I heard that wall hammers are harder to keep for some reason. I see so many at my Lfs that have been there for 3 plus months. Would it be worth trying it out? Also why are they harder

 

[Zer0]

Wall hammers are generally more difficult because if something infects them or they start melting for whatever reason, you’re gonna need to pull the whole thing and perform surgery if you want to attempt to save anything by way of fragmenting. With branching hammers, you just snap off the infected heads and that’s pretty much it. I’m sure there are other reasons, but that’s what I’ve mainly come across. I think it also has to do with where or how they are harvested, and what kind of damage is done to the skeleton.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Don’t try it. I wasted $150 on a beautiful wall hammer and after a month it got BJD. They do not respond well to most aquariums. Stick with branching hammers. They are more often aquacultured and are generally healthier specimens. Walls are beautiful, especially the giant 2’ ones my lfs sells. But in the end, I’d spend only $40-60 on a branching frag and save the headache.
Below are two photos, showing a month of my hammer having gone from flourishing to suddenly ill. They’re extremely temperamental.

The main reason wall hammers are so hard to keep is the fact that they’re more often wild caught, and go through more stress in fragging and selling. Additionally, once one head perishes, the whole thing goes down.

 

[1Bigfish]

So I heard that wall hammers are harder to keep for some reason. I see so many at my Lfs that have been there for 3 plus months. Would it be worth trying it out? Also why are they harder

My experience with wall hammers is you need very stable parameters. Keep your salinity and KH stable and your wall hammers should stay happy. Recently, l lost some very nice wall hammers due to salinity dropping and KH swings. Other branching hammers and frogs I have are are fine. And, more indirect flow and gradual changes, there just more finicky. I’d be interested to hear others feedback as well.

 

[GHOSTLY]

What is bjd

 

[1Bigfish]

What is bjd

Brown jelly disease, get the coral out carefully so you don’t spread it in the water.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Brown jelly disease, bacterial infection that spreads rapidly, turns the flesh to jelly. 95% of the time it’s a death sentence for corals.

I attached a pic of my hammer that got it in my above post.

 

[GHOSTLY]

Oh. at my local lfs they‘re selling a beauty of a wall hammer. Pure gold.

 

[Sharkbait19]

If you want it, go ahead. However, buy it at your own risk. If you're interested in the coral, there's no reason not to give it a try, but I would just hate to see you spend so much money on something that has a high mortality rate in aquariums...

 

[GHOSTLY]

Yeah I don't think I'm going to risk it.

 

[tsouth]

On the contrary, I’ve had 3 wall hammers from Unique corals for over a year. Take it for what you will but I’ve had a salinity swing down to 1.016 by accident and they survived while my torch polyps bailed.

 

[Sharkbait19]

I suppose it’s dependent on the individual. If you want to try it, you should definitely dip it to limit the risk of Brown Jelly Disease. Again, I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad idea, but getting one may be a risk.

 

[saltyfins]

I have a wall hammer, and it's growing like a weed! thing hasnt had any issues so far, knock on wood. I've had it about a year. was in a higher flow area and I moved it to where it just barely moved...and the size doubled. it's almost 5 inches long.

 

[GHOSTLY]

The problem is that they are fairly pricy. I don't want to risk losing them

 

[Saltees]

I have my “wall type” frogspawn and hammer died on me within 3 months, while my “branch type” thrived. So what I did was to put a bunch of branching together to form a wall.

 

[Sharkbait19]

I have my “wall type” frogspawn and hammer died on me within 3 months, while my “branch type” thrived. So what I did was to put a bunch of branching together to form a wall.

I still have the skeleton to my wall hammer so I am considering making a branching hammer chia pet...

 

[Timfish]

A huge probelm we have as aquarists is we can't accurately identify clone lines (genets), or genotypes and we can't accurately determine age. These variable have a direct impact on a coral's immune system and ability to deal with the myriad different microbes and changing environmental conditions. I would suggest tweo things; One, don;t spend more than you are willing to loose when it dies. And two, find out as much as possible from your source on what's the conditions and tankmates are in the system a specific colony is thriving in (assuming it's thriving :/ ).

 

[GHOSTLY]

I'm not going to risk it. But do frogspawn come in wall varieties

 

[Juliomrtnz]

I'm not going to risk it. But do frogspawn come in wall varieties

Great info here

 

[GHOSTLY]

Where