Hammer Growth Splitting Budding New Heads Reproduction Saltwater Coral Reef Aquarium

This video is on hammer reproduction, how they create new heads and grow.

Ever wonder why some hammers grow tight together and form a ball and others have crazy branching structures? It has a lot to do with how that particular coral reproduces.

Branching Hammer Corals reproduce in 2 ways:
Splitting
Budding

Which way the coral reproduces has a lot to do with how the coral appears and what the branching structure ends up looking like.

Splitting
Splitting will in the short term produce the ball look as the heads split, they compact and create a tight ball as there isn’t any room to expand.

What is splitting?
Splitting is when a single head becomes 2 individual polyps. The single head will typically elongate, create 2 mouths that separate into 2 different polyps. The elongated skeleton will pinch together between the 2 mouths and create 2 separate corals.

Budding
Budding tends to create those crazy branching structures a lot quicker, and consequently the corals grows less compact which allows the heads to spread out.

What is Budding:
Budding is when a new head / polyp develops on the side of the current head, which created a new branch, rather than compacting on a current branch like splitting does.

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