Can this hammer be saved?

gideon2086 · May 16, 2020

Woke up this morning to find that someone had dislodged the hammer from its rock and unfortunately it fell directly on top of a Lobophylia. The lobo clearly wasn’t happy about that and it appears it beat the crap out of the hammer. The hammer is currently retracted and sliming. Is there anything I should/can do?

AcroNem · May 16, 2020

Wait for now, you could give it an iodine dip but if the tissue has been badly stung it will deteriorate either way.

gideon2086 · May 16, 2020

Bummer. He’s new. Isn’t looking any different hours later. Still severely recessed and slimey.

NewGoby · May 16, 2020

Don't dip her, don't stress her out anymore - let her be & she may yet recover.
She looks quite upset - once she starts opening up a little bit I'd advice feeding her 2x a week, with 1 anemone pellet, or something similair - I feed LPS Grow + Color by Fauna Marin every day by mixing it with my Reef Energy AB+ by RedSea, used to feed Anemone Pellets by Vitalis which did wonders too.

I personally dont like putting hammers ontop of rockwork, due to this reason. (falling & landing head first into sand or another coral while im @ work or asleep)