Hello all, I've recently added some hammer coarls they both have 3 heads each and they where doing great when first introduced to the tank about 2 weeks ago but over the past 2 days they've been expelling brown goo and receding at a rapid rate so their obviously stressed I checked my water parameters ammonia, nitrates, nitrites are all zero temps are at 78 calcium-500, alk-3.67, dkh-10.5, ph-8.3 mg-1500, I've only had my lights on for about 6 hrs at a time to acclimate them and also there in the sand bed in a fairly low flow area not quite sure why there deteriorated so quickly!
Hammer corals receding
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KyleC.
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Someone else with much more expertise will chime in, hopefully. I will note, 0 Nitrates is not good. Calcium at 500 is high. Why is Alk & DKH numbers different? 10.5 is high. Mag at 1500 is high. All of that added to zero nutrients is not good. Again, not an expert, just bored on lunch... My suggestion would be to do water changes, and get the parameters in check. Goodluck!
EDIT: A clear picture would also help in getting the proper assistance!
EDIT: A clear picture would also help in getting the proper assistance!
mtdaly85
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Many people refer to this as "Brown Jelly Syndrome" or "Brown Jelly Disease." The exact science behind it isn't truly understood, but there are some really good articles about it online. The "brown jelly" appearance is an infection and death of the soft tissue of the coral. It could be a response to a pest you can't see, it could be a bacterial infection. It is hard to diagnose through just pictures.
The bottom line is, that hammer is likely a goner.
The bottom line is, that hammer is likely a goner.
mtdaly85
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Sorry man! I think people try to overanalyze what happens when corals die. I've resigned to figuring out what happens when I lose I piece. I just come to the realization that our hobby is just prone to loss. We are trying to keep very delicate and beautiful animals alive in a glass box that is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction (etc.) of the environment in which they were born (with the exception of aquacultured of course). Keep your chin up an use this as an excuse to GO BUY MORE!
BJD is the bane of LPS. Its almost impossible to beat and the only real way I know is via amputation.
Mastiffsrule
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Sorry man! I think people try to overanalyze what happens when corals die. I've resigned to figuring out what happens when I lose I piece. I just come to the realization that our hobby is just prone to loss. We are trying to keep very delicate and beautiful animals alive in a glass box that is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction (etc.) of the environment in which they were born (with the exception of aquacultured of course). Keep your chin up an use this as an excuse to GO BUY MORE!
I agree. I have had large colonies of hammers for years. Every couple months out of nowhere a head dies off. If I pull the branch off the colony it ends with that one head. At times I have been lazy and left the dead head in. Other heads would start dying 1 by 1. Never saw signs of disease. After pulling the dead branches off the rest were fine. There are a lot of thread about hammers doing this. No one really knows unless it is clearly bjd as you mentioned it may be
Sorry about the loss. It’s not gone yet, try to move it to a different flow and light and see if it responds.
