Hammer coral dead!

[B. Cezar]

Hi evryone! An advices please! My hammer coral is dead....have no ideea why...shold i remove it from the aquarium ? Hi still have some babyes next to him....

 

[NanaReefer]

As long as the babies are doing well I'd leave it be.

 

[kevindo123]

You have to figure out why your hammer died first. I know first hand that Hammer LPS don't do well at high Alk and Salinity. I once had Alk at 11 and salinity at 1.030 and the hammer completely shrunk. Once I corrected the parameter it came back to full health.

 

[B. Cezar]

Kevindo123 thanks for the replay. My salinity is 1.026 and the Alk ...i don't know coz i have no kits for that. My aquarium its a low tech biocube and i use tap water as per the my location (Qatar) the tap water is desalinaizd sea water and all the LFS they do ther SW tanks with tap water. My nitrate are high....arownd 30-40, but evryone seams to be ok...only the hammer coral died. But my problem is that if hi died it will damge all the other corals?

 

[B. Cezar]

Kevindo123 thanks for the replay. My salinity is 1.026 and the Alk ...i don't know coz i have no kits for that. My aquarium its a low tech biocube and i use tap water as per the my location (Qatar) the tap water is desalinaizd sea water and all the LFS they do ther SW tanks with tap water. My nitrate are high....arownd 30-40, but evryone seams to be ok...only the hammer coral died. But my problem is that if hi died it will damge all the other corals?