Hammer corals are a great beginner LPS coral that has been one of the most popular stony corals in the hobby. I've been working on this video for a little while and was lucky enough to get some really nice ones to finish up the shooting. Hope you guys enjoy.

You've got a real soothing voice my brotha.

Amazing video of these hammers! Thank you 😊

ONE OF MY FAVOURITE CHANNELS!

Tidal gardens is so informative it’s incredible, any coral I’ve been reading on and wait to listen to a informative video about it they’ve got it!

Glad I found this video. Thank you for the information.

Great video Than! Awesome footage and outstanding info as usual!

Thanks once again for your videos. I enjoy every minute of it! Very good basic information that's useable. Be blessed.

Excellent tutorial and very well explained. Thank you very much!Love your videos.

Great video ! Mesmerising

Just got my first hammer coral 2day, as well as some zoa's and a nem... Love the the hammer tho looks really good. Great video and info bud, keep it up... 👍🏾

Your voice is so soothing. I don’t even own a salt water tank nor am I interested in owning one but your voice keeps me around XD

Omg love listening to you....fill me with knowledge

Love the video... very informative and gorgeous video footage. I find that euphyllia can also be sensitive to water nutrient levels. Stripping out too much phosphate and nitrate tends to make the polyps shorten and shrivel. I generally am careful with overskimming and using GFO on aquariums with big euphyllia populations. Happy reefing!

Great stuff man.

I play this video on TV, super relaxing

Great video. Very informative.

Great info brother, euphillia's are my absolute favorite corals followed by acans and chalice. Lps in general lol.

I’m new to the reefing hobby and really liked hammers but didn’t want to get one and have it die cus I didn’t know much about it but I just picked one up today and your video made me feel a lot better about buying it and keeping it alive so thanks!👍🏽

Yep have one of those yellow hammers...just love it

Awesome video 👊👍

Great video love ur channel!

my favorite coral for sure

Great footage great info! Keep it up!

Thanks for yet another amazing video, Than! I have a hammer (that came from you). I have noticed that it loves to eat pellet food designed for omnivorous fish, gobbles them right up! I’ll email you a video if you’d like.

I got a hammer at my lfs as one of the first three I ever bought. Haven’t been in the hobby long even from a fish tank stand point let alone a reef tank, and I think it’s pretty happy with what I’ve been doing.

Awesome video Than

Hammers and Euphelias are some of my absolute favorite corals Than!! great video

These are such a staple of saltwater aquariums that my mom said her dad had one in their aquariums in the late 60's and early 70's.

Great video, crisp audio and well done

Nice video Than. Love me some corals in 4k

Nice video

Great info than awesome videographer

I love hammers and torches. Some great info passed 0n, thanks Than

Great video! I’ve gotten a purple tip hammer to eat with a lot of success. I thaw out mysis in a little bit of saltwater in a small Tupperware container then pinch the shrimp with my finger tips and manually put it in the tank to feed fish. I kill the flow then use the water with the tiny concentrated shrimp particles and target feed my coral with it, sometimes I’ll mix in a little bit of reed roids, I’ve had great success and I figure it’s easier for the coral to digest since the pieces are so tiny, I’ve had great success from feeding this to Zoas to lps to SPS. Maybe you can try it and get back to me with your opinion, hopefully it helps!

Legend has it, Than is still searching for that bright yellow hammer to this day.

I’m researching for my 5th coral, I’m highly considering a hammer coral!

You da man, Than!

Helped me identify what I saw at the aquarium. I thought at first it was a kind of anemone but none of them fit. Thanks!

i always save a small frag of a coral that i really love if i have to sell the colony.

Thanks Than, I was hoping you will make a clip about hammers :)

There is another pest that is super rare (i had them) euphyllia eating flatworms. brutal on the corals, and very tough to get rid of in euphyllia dominate tanks.

I've had a hammer coral for almost a year and it's been doing great! The last week and a half though it's been retracted and not looking happy. The only thing i can see that is different is that it clearly has two heads versus before when it had one head when it was a tiny frag. It hasn't melted away, just been looking unhappy for the last week or two. Water is great. Nitrates are at or near zero. Temp at 78 deg. F. Salinity 1.26.etc. Would like your input, sir! Love the videos, keep them up!

Are you going to the frag swap in North Canton this July?... Great video also..

Can you do a video on cutting wall hammers ?

I have a small single head frag that hasn't grown at all. Everything else in the tank is doing great.

Fell asleep after listening to your voice.

I have a question. What can i do to encourage my hammer to fully open up. I’ve tried moving on the middle section of the tank, the top, the bottom. I’ve also tried adjusting the light and flow and still not opening up, it’s only been a few days since i got it any tips?

I bought a fluro yellow the other day 😁🤘

What kind of idiot gave an informational video a thumbs down ? Lol People kill me..... Nice job Than ;)

I’m having a really hard time finding a place for these guys. The only time they extend is if my powerheads are completely turned off. Bit of a problem seeing as I have a mixed reef with SPS. Any suggestions because they are looking terrible right now...

Heed my lesson. A $4 Peppermint Shrimp ate a $30 aussie hammerhead coral down to the shell. . Now they are sump cleaner shrimp. Update: what was left came back quickly & is filling back in. ps: They seem to like slightly dirty water & so does algae😒

So do I only have to worry about sweepers “downstream” so to speak? What about on the aquascape below?

I ran across some hammers that had been in St. Jude children hospital. They were humongous l, I mean big, colossal, gigantic! There aquarium cracked and they sold all of the coral for very cheap. I had hammers with long white stems that filled my tank. We’ll leave it up to me, I poured salt directly in my reef tank and all the flesh bailed out. I’ve been in the hobby barely over a year and I swear I’ve some costly mistakes. Way over $5k easily… but I have learned from those mistakes and I love our hobby🪸

I have hammer corals that doesn’t open fully. What’s the water setting that’s good ?

I have had my hammer for over 6 months now and little by little im loosimg hammers in my tank i been dping water changes but only malrs things worse.

I just love your channel. I bought a green and purple hammer. It’sin my quarantine tank. That tank has fully controllable fluval marine led. I want to move it to my display tank which is a coralife bio cube. My concern is, is the light too bright? I cannot remove the hood to add another light because I have jumping fish thanks in advance you have encouraged me to start keeping coral.

Unique corals has a golden branching hammer for sale right now on ebay

where to put hammer coral over sand bed are high?

Hello I was wondering is 128 par ok for hammer corals

How does brown jelly occur to begin with?

Trying to get mine to open

You mentioned running activated carbon towards the end of the video to combat potential issues. Do you always run carbon in your tanks, or just when you notice something that would warrant it?

Milehighreefer posted a vid about some neon yellow. Hammers

my wall hammer is receding a little bit and it shows a small amount of skeleton. should i move it to even lower flow?

is the brown jelly disease contagious amongst other euphyllia in the tank??

Any ideas why sometimes my hammer would detach from the skeletons even though they look healthy? And it is not due to too much flow?

You showed some hammer corals that basically look like torches. How can one tell them apart from torch corals?

I call them brains

do hammers retract at night

#tidalgardens, maybe this gold hammer you're fondly speaking of, was actually a Fimbriaphyllia baliensis (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/faqWpsiLlt7dfWg.html)?

"I see thousands of hammers a year"😂🤣

Can you talk about disease and what not?

Out of nowhere all my hammers and frogspawn died and I’d had them for a year to a year and a half.

Are hammer corals lps? Also would i need to dose for a lps and softie reef tank only?

You are super informative but to say a clownfish 'hosts' a coral is wrong. Or a clownfish to host anything other than parasites etc. The coral is the host to the clownfish. When you invite people to your home for dinner are they being the host to you?

I like frogspawn better than hammer

my clowns are hosting in my GSP.. so yeah its true they host in the weirdest of things..

My clownfish like to hide in a skull. 💀