Hammer Coral splitting

[Ckparent]

I’m new to reef keeping and I recently purchased a hammer coral around a month ago. I’ve recently seen what looks to be the tentacles of the hammer coral going in opposite directions, is this the start of a new head or is it just the spreading of the tentacles?
pic of hammer coral

 

[lapin]

They can split in to more than 1 head.

 

[Reefer5640]

Looks like it’s starting to split into a new head. You can see how fat the skeleton is under the heads. Can you see a new mouth yet?

 

[Bribo12]

It has 2 heads already right? Doesn’t look to be splitting to me. Probably just getting a bit bigger.

 

[Reefer5640]

It has 2 heads already right? Doesn’t look to be splitting to me. Probably just getting a bit bigger.

This is a good point. I guess it depends on if it was one or two heads when they bought it.

 

[Ckparent]

When I bought the hammer coral it had two heads. After doing some research I think that it is just one head becoming bigger.

 

[Bribo12]

Definitely just getting bigger. Mine tend to bubble for some reason when splitting. You can usually see at night the split in the head when it is splitting.

 

[Ckparent]

Thanks for the feedback!