| I've had numerous occasions where my branching frogspawn (Close relative to hammer) would fall over onto my VERY aggressive Bubble Coral. Even after a few minutes, most of the flesh on the FS had disintegrated. I've found that any leftover tissue will normally be just fine if the tank is in good health, and that coral was in the same state (good health).
As T mentioned, keep an eye out for brown jelly infections, as they can obliterate a coral in no time. A lugols or Iodine dip is recommended if this were to happen.
As for fragging hammers, as long as you are breaking off whole branches, instead of splitting individual heads, the coral should frag without a problem. If you have to rend tissue to separate the branches, then it's not recommended you frag that piece just yet, letting it go until the tissue separates naturally, exposing bare skeleton. Otherwise the BJ infections are again a possible threat.
-HTH-
Cos |