Dying hammer

Fakegolfnews · Apr 27, 2020

A leather coral below it has been stinging it. I cut up the leather yeaterday when this started happening.I have been procrastinating cutting up the leather as i have no room for it elsewhere and it seems i waited too long, it started doing this yesterday. Anything i can do? Will revive help? Should i take it to my LFS amd ask them to cut and seperate the heads to avoid spread?

Thanks

Fakegolfnews · Apr 27, 2020

Fakegolfnews said:
A leather coral below it has been stinging it. I cut up the leather yeaterday when this started happening.I have been procrastinating cutting up the leather as i have no room for it elsewhere and it seems i waited too long, it started doing this yesterday. Anything i can do? Will revive help? Should i take it to my LFS amd ask them to cut and seperate the heads to avoid spread?

Thanks

A little more background: for weeks it opens up fine then toward the end of the day retracts when it gets near the leather, but it has been fine. Just yesterday is when it got really bad

vetteguy53081 · Apr 27, 2020

It should be stinging the leather . . . hmmm,
I can tell you, the hammer has a great chance of recovery. Ive had similar looking which now are full and colorful. Brightwell Koral remedy will help as will moderate flow and feeding 2X per week. Assure ph is in 8.1-8.3 range and salinity 1.025 and alk/Mag within range

Fakegolfnews · Apr 27, 2020

vetteguy53081 said:
It should be stinging the leather . . . hmmm,
I can tell you, the hammer has a great chance of recovery. Ive had similar looking which now are full and colorful. Brightwell Koral remedy will help as will moderate flow and feeding 2X per week. Assure ph is in 8.1-8.3 range and salinity 1.025 and alk/Mag within range

Ill look for some of the koral remedy at my LFS today, so no revive dip right now?

Fakegolfnews · Apr 28, 2020

The sickness has spread to the other head that was not effected before. Is this thing a goner?

Fakegolfnews · Apr 29, 2020

Not looking good. Now the hammerspawn thing above it isn't looking good. ***

Chefwheredyougo · Apr 29, 2020

Edit:
I think Merkey is right, BJD

MERKEY · Apr 29, 2020

Fakegolfnews said:
Not looking good. Now the hammerspawn thing above it isn't looking good. ***

Brown jelly

Get it out before all of your euphyllia get it...I've seen some nice euphyllia go down.

No real know reason, I've read ph issues can contribute but I haven't read any 1 reason.

I just had a colony from indo do the same...its a gut wrenching feeling.

Fakegolfnews · Apr 29, 2020

MERKEY said:
Brown jelly

Get it out before all of your euphyllia get it...I've seen some nice euphyllia go down.

No real know reason, I've read ph issues can contribute but I haven't read any 1 reason.

I just had a colony from indo do the same...its a gut wrenching feeling.

Thanks for the heads up, its now outside

This pic was 6 months ago, looking back on pics (bit of a memorial service) it had been declining even before the leather could touch it.
Are hammers really ph sensitive? I have been running an air purifier down here at night the last few nights. Could that have brought the PH up too fast for it?
Man, this sucks, that was one of my first and most prized corals.

Fakegolfnews · Apr 29, 2020

Chefwheredyougo · Apr 29, 2020

If you have another small tank try putting them in there for awhile and see if you can get them to recover.

MERKEY · Apr 29, 2020

Fakegolfnews said:
Thanks for the heads up, its now outside
This pic was 6 months ago, looking back on pics (bit of a memorial service) it had been declining even before the leather could touch it.
Are hammers really ph sensitive? I have been running an air purifier down here at night the last few nights. Could that have brought the PH up too fast for it?
Man, this sucks, that was one of my first and most prized corals.

Unfortunately the PH sensitivity is just 1 of the aspects that can contribute, is it %100 true....I honestly don't know. It was one of the contributing factors I read and a couple different older more knowledgeable reefers thought could be a contributing factor.

There is a good thread by Randy holmes going on right now about which is more important, ALK or PH stability....definitely got my attention.

Reefer37 · Apr 29, 2020

Had a torch that just died from BJD. Stuff moves super quick, so good idea getting it out ASAP before the other euphyllia get it.

My incident I believe was tied to a number of things. It was in the process of splitting and I had a pretty significant Alk drop. That, mixed with being higher in the tank (getting more light and flow) I think stressed it enough to get BJD and within 2 days it was a goner. Dips generally don't do much unfortunately.