Attaching a wall hammer coral to a rock

[FurryKing]

I've got this big wall hammer on my sand, and it's super top-heavy, so it keeps tipping over. I'm thinking of making a little hole in the rock and epoxying or superglueing it in place to give it some stability. Thing is, I'm not really sure how wall hammers grow - is it from the sides, the base, or just the top? I don't wanna restrict its growth, ya know?

[Bryson]

I'd probably just glue it down myself, but I'm not really sure how they grow either.

[zeno9]

I've got wall hammers glued in all sorts of spots - rocks, walls, you name it. As long as the polyps are gettin' that direct light, you're golden.

[microvolt]

Attaching it to a flat rock base seems like a solid solution - that way, you can move the whole thing around as needed.

[FurryKing]

Attaching it to a flat rock base seems like a solid solution - that way, you can move the whole thing around as needed.

Yeah, that's pretty much the plan - a cavernous base, roughly 4.5 by 2 inches, giving it a nice cupped shape to sit in. Just trying to cover all my bases before I take the plunge.

[microvolt]

My wall hammer's been stuck in the sand bed since day one, but when it inflates, stability becomes a major concern. I've always been a fan of spot welding coral plugs or rocks to the main rock work, that way if you need to remove them, you can just break the bond between the two rocks without risking any damage to the coral skeleton.

[_goldfin]

Glueing to rocks shouldn't affect how the coral grows its skeleton, it'll just become one with the rock over time. The skeleton grows and it'll just grow over whatever rock it needs to as it expands. With how fast E. ancora grows in our reefs, you shouldn't have an issue anyway.