Hammer coral stings?

[Horsey_Cat]

I have a very small pico and I am looking for more coral to add in to. I am looking at basically anything and I was wondering if hammer corals stung other corals and if it would be bad to put in a small pico.

[tennis20]

How big is it exactly? In a certain proximity, a hammer will stung the corals around it.

[Horsey_Cat]

Its a vase, so yeah its small. And even if I did get it, it would probably grow and end up stinging the other corals anyways.

 

 

How about a walking dendro coral? Is that safe for a pico?

[PiscesFish]

I think dendros are fine. All I've read on them is that they only have feeding tentacles, same thing with duncans.

 

Though, when I think of dendros, I'm thinking of those clear tentacle tipped sun coral looking corals. If you're refering to the Carnations, then I think those will be fine too, but bioload wise, I'm not too sure how well those will do.

[jestep]

In my experience hammers don't usually have long sweeper tentacles, but they're a pretty fast growing coral. My purple branching hammer went from a single head to probably 80 in 3 years. I would probably opt for a wall hammer or wall frogspawn as the growth is much more manageable.

This in 2010:

 

Is now almost basketball size:

 

[Reefpro]

Hammers, torches , frog spawn all sting pretty good. Give these guys room!!!!!

[markalot]

Avoid wall frogspawns, very long sweepers that kill. I think any frog, Hammer, or torch is a bad idea.