Flow rate for hammer coral and feeding?

themcnertney · Jun 19, 2017

So what are your water parameters?

nanomania · Jun 19, 2017

Dan McNertney said:
So what are your water parameters?

No3 12
Ammo and nitrite 0
Alk 7 if i raise it, corals start looking stressdd for some reason
Ph 8
Cal 380
Mag 1150

BoomCorals · Jun 19, 2017

In my experience if it's too much flow the hammer will close up.

nanomania · Jun 20, 2017

BoomCorals said:
In my experience if it's too much flow the hammer will close up.

The hammer looks very full when the light are on. Will click a pic today and upload once m back from work..

ndrwater · Jun 20, 2017

Flow looks just fine. As mentioned above, wall Hammers, or Euphillia in general, which lose flesh like that are often doomed. Sorry...
I would also say that frequent feedings aren't really necessary, and can be detrimental.

nanomania · Jun 20, 2017

Here are a few pics front, front-top and back-top

LbulletM · Jun 20, 2017

Looks pretty happy! You might be able to save it, but prepare for the worst and watch for BJD.

nanomania · Jun 20, 2017

LbulletM said:
Looks pretty happy! You might be able to save it, but prepare for the worst and watch for BJD.

Havent seen any bjd as of now.

Ryengoth · Jun 20, 2017

If the colors start to fade at all it'll be gone quickly. I lost a blue-green wall hammer a bit smaller than that from a po4 spike. It was fine for a couple of weeks, but as soon as the base was exposed it started to go fast. Your best option is a QT with squeaky clean water and perfect alk IMO to see if it'll regrow.

Sir Chris · Jun 20, 2017

Bjd is brown jelly disease. It'll slime up and brown will ooze from its mouth. Had 2 rainbow acans get it from alk swing. Killed green and I cut the bad off the red out of 9 heads I left 5 and it lived and still now. But deff a wall it's a expensive peice. Don't move it if it inflates and is happy if possible get a coral cleaner like revive and lightly dip if it doesn't get better. U might have night phosphates so test or water change and check ur ALK.

nanomania · Jun 20, 2017

Thanks guys, i dont feel like moving it as its looking good. Im feeing it every Alternate days. Hopefully it gets better.

Katrina71 · Jun 20, 2017

Is bjd a secondary issue like a bacterial infection in a wound? I'm new. Just curious.

chowwil · Jun 21, 2017

From my experience with wall hammers. Once reach this stage, it will not bounce back even with excessive feeding Mine all end up dying, but I do notice, since I use restor with target feeding on one of my branching type. It died, but notice new tissue growth on the dead skeleton. Not really sure yet. This will be my first experience with this.

LbulletM · Jun 21, 2017

Katrina71 said:
Is bjd a secondary issue like a bacterial infection in a wound? I'm new. Just curious.

It's a protozoan infection. The reason it's so important to watch for it is that it can spread to other LPS fairly easily. Some coral dips like Lugol's (or I've even read freshwater dip successes) can stop it, so it's not the end of the tank, but if I see BJD, I immediately remove the coral from my display.