Unknown Coral - Raised from the Dead

redfishbluefish · Jun 24, 2019

I had a 20 Long frag tank with predominately neon green hammers.

Since it was a frag tank, I didn't pay much attention to algae. While on vacation the algae blocked up the powerhead and filter and, without flow, killed everything in the tank.

Being a professional procrastinator, today I started to clean out the tank. And what do I find....two of the dead heads of coral have multiple small little green things growing out of them. No idea what they are.

Closeup:

Could they be mini hammers coming back? Anyone have any ideas?

iTzJu · Jun 24, 2019

definitely looks like mini hammers coming back.

JustAnt · Jun 24, 2019

Congrats to the new father!

Scurvy · Jun 24, 2019

Very cool! Definitely a zombie hammer, Back from the dead. i even gave you 1K per head name

Mariette · Jun 24, 2019

Aww baby zombie hammers

Lasse · Jun 24, 2019

Yes is babies. By the way - it looks like cyanobacteria - not algae.

Sincerely Lasse

redfishbluefish · Jun 24, 2019

Lasse said:
Yes is babies. By the way - it looks like cyanobacteria - not algae.

Sincerely Lasse

Lasse, believe me, it was algae that clogged up the powerhead and filter. Once all the death occurred, the cyano overgrew the dead coral heads.

redfishbluefish · Jun 24, 2019

Thanks all for the replies. I've never seen mini-hammers. This was originally a colony in my tank of (a guess) 40 to 50 full sized heads. When I broke down the tank, trying to remove this colony was a breakdown as well. Ended up with multiple mini colonies of this hammer. Was planning on selling/giving away....but that's now not going to happen. Although this regrowth....who knows. I've got two of these that "survived" and growing these mini-heads. In another tank, I have one full size hammer with two heads. Enough for the new tank I'm putting up. These really grew like a weed in my tank.