What will happen with these hammers?

[RaymondL]

I placed these 3 hammer coral frags close together temporary because I didn't decide on where to place them. As the picture tells, they are touching and overlapping and the one on the right, some of its polyps are shaded by the hammer on top.

If I were to leave things as is, what would happen?

Thanks

 

[kevgib67]

They will be fine, here are my hammers and frogspawn.

 

[19Mateo83]

They will be fine, Nice start to a little hammer garden. Here’s mine

 

[RaymondL]

Thank you - so the fact that the right one is shaded a bit from the hammer up top, it might not get light, and it's no worry?

 

[fish farmer]

I disagree....give them more space. I tried the "keep them close". My frammer grows much faster than the other two hammers, essentially blocking them from growing out. I had a purple hammer that was tucked between a mint and a piece of my frammer. It grew, but when I moved it....it expanded and grew much better.


The little purple hammer to the right grew slow in this spot.


Once I moved it down and gave it more space it really took off... maybe it was just a better location.


The first pic was from Nov 2022 and l had this hammer for awhile tucked into tight places. The second pic is from mid summer 2023...I had moved it in March 2023 from the previous location. The bottom pic had a "donut hole" between the two, it filled in pretty quick.

 

[Doctorgori]

I’m hesitant to post this but something I’ve noticed is hammers, frammers, frogspawn and octospawn sorta get along better with each other than with torches or cristata
I dunno, amongst. those torches don’t play well with others
you can kinda crowd hammers but
They do need some space for expansion