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| This Hammer coral has two heads. You can see the mouth of one of them in this picture. There is also a tiny head starting to develop on the base. A Hammer coral is a Large Poly Stony or LPS coral. It differs from the other corals in my tank because it builds it's own calcareous skeleton. |
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| Iridescent green under the actinic lights |
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| Day 86 - I rearranged the tank to make room for the hammer coral. Now the tank has two viewable sides. |
Coral reproduction documented. In the wild, pieces of corals break off during storms and new clones start to grow. My Pulsing Xenia reproduced the same way, except the trigger was a snail instead of a storm.  |
| Day 47 - Pulsing Xenia attached to frag disk. It will eventually attach to the hungry snail in the background. I freed the snail and replaced it with a piece of rubble. The Xenia quickly attached to it. |
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| Day 65 - Pulsing Xenia has attached to a piece of rubble. The rubble was not attached to the frag disk and the two will eventually separate. |
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| Day 72 - The Xenia was knocked over during the night and it separated from the frag disk. The remaining foot will quickly start to develop into a clone of the original Xenia. |
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| Day 77 - Polyps starting to develop |
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| Day 89 - Pulsing and ready to grow to maturity |
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| Baby red mushroom 1cm in diameter. When I discovered this mushroom, it was literally slime on the bottom of a rock. It took weeks, but it developed into a mushroom. It is just starting to develop color. |
