1 hammer head dying

[Passedyouby]

Hello! I just moved tanks a couple weeks back. All corals are doing fine except for 1 head on one of my hammers has been dying off, now there is a white growth over that head. The rest of the coral looks fine. Suggestions? I went from a larger tank that had a kessil 360x, and this new tank is much smaller and has a kessil a80

 

[Red_Beard]

An iodine dip like lugols or even povidone iodine like from Walgreens has worked miracles with some of my hammers. That would be my first approach. 10 mins in enough povidone iodine to make the water more brown than yellow or follow directions on the lugols.

 

[Red_Beard]

Also, is there something obvious that is causing this? Like anothwr coral too close or something agitating it? Or was it possibly injured during the move? If it was injured the iodine dip is the ticket. If another irritant is causing it, dip it but make sure to remove the irritant or it will just get worse. HTH

 

[Passedyouby]

Thanks guys. Yeah. Another coral isn't causing this, I know one fell on him for that picture, but that's a new issue

As for the iodine dips- since it's only one head giving an issue I figure that wouldn't help? Thinking about just cutting that one head off. Thoughts?

 

[Shirak]

Looks like that whole section is going.. I would kill the pumps and gently remove the coral and cut off the bad section.

 

[Red_Beard]

You could remove that one head, but you could also have a chance at saving it. If it was getting a brown slime on it instead of turning white i would say lop that thing off asap. But, your call.

 

[SaltISlife]

If it has multiple heads. Id cut that section off and take it out