Reefers exaggerating?

[sinister]

I'm starting to think that reefers are exaggerating about aggressiveness of many corals. I have both a large frogspawn and a 2 polyp hammer coral in my tank, and I have yet to see the infamous "sweeper tentacles" that the two of them supposedly have. I have seen the candycane's super small tentacles, and the favia's 1inch long sweepers... but never the "scary" sweepers that all the "care" websites talk about.

 

[Zooid]

get a hollywood stunner chalice and you'll see the long sweepers......about 6" out of every eye

 

[303travism]

get a hollywood stunner chalice and you'll see the long sweepers......about 6" out of every eye

+1 pretty crazy when you have just a small frag and see the size of the sweepers!

 

[djkms]

get a hollywood stunner chalice and you'll see the long sweepers......about 6" out of every eye

LOL, I was just about to say the same thing. Get a Hollywood stinger and get back to us.

 

[09bumblebee]

Hmm I've got about 1" to 1.5" frag of hollywood stunner and haven't noticed then yet guess I'll start paying attention.

 

[Haulin Oates]

My hammer coral colony will put out a couple of nice stingers in the evening. I'd say a good 4" further than normal. I'll try to get a picture tomorrow.

 

[CRW Reef]

Hmmm while I know.nothing about Hollywood Stunners, I can say I have prob 50+ heads of various hammers and frogspawns and while I have seen sweepers I have never lost a coral because of a sting. Now.....the torches Kris keeps, those have freaking ruthless killer stingers

 

[tlsrcs]

Hmm weird iv never seen sweepers from my Hollywood stunner somr.small ones from acans and candy canes but my hammers and frogspawn retract greatly at night

 

[crisc]

Here is one happy bubble coral with multiple sweepers, some up to 6" long, most people don't think of bubbles having sweepers like that. Never kept the stunners but a lot of chalice type corals have long sweepers and of course the infamous galaxia coral I think beats them all!

 

[RuRoo]

That's an awesome pic Cris.

 

[Cyber-Burn]

I haven't noticed sweepers off of my Hammer, but my Galaxea will have sweepers up to 6" long, and it packs a punch too. I've lost a couple things from misjudging how close they are to the Galaxea.

 

[sinister]

crazy. How's war coral?

 

[ReefCheif]

Hmm I've got about 1" to 1.5" frag of hollywood stunner and haven't noticed then yet guess I'll start paying attention.

Came form my tank, youll see the sweepers, use a flashlight at night and look at the eyes. My colony shows them everynight.

 

[ReefCheif]

Ive seen the hammer coral do it, never seen my frog spawn. The hammer coral has actually killed a couple SPS and now sits on a rock all by him self, the frog spawn is surrounded by other corals and has not given me one issue. My pocillipora on the other hand, I saw 6" sweepers coming off of him attacking a ORA pink digitata the other night but does not bother anything else in the vacinity, I wonder whats up with that?

 

[djkms]

Hammer coral...

infamous "sweeper tentacle"....

 

[sinister]

Maybe mine is too small... It's only got 2 heads.

That's a gorgeous hammer though. Almost looks like a frogspawn with the green and purple