Hammer got stung? What do? *first time*

[fisherc92]

Hello this morning I woke up and my hammer knocked over and to close to the scoly. The scoly had its guts all over the hammer. The hammer has a white fuzz or film over 3/4 it's head. Not brown yet. I have given him a seachem reef dip. I've been afraid to add it back to the water and have been keeping it Ina coral travel cup. Is it a goner and kill my other euphylia in the tank or does it recover?

 

[CoralB]

Well from my experience I would have first secured him away from eminent danger , put him upright preferably close to the same par level in the tank and allowed him to try to recover on his own . Not sure what you could possibly dip it with to neutralize the venom from the sting but by dipping him and moving him into a cup would only stress him out more . I would put him back in the tank and watch him carefully . Allow him the chance to fight for life without further stress . Good luck !!! Hope this helps

 

[fisherc92]

Well from my experience I would have first secured him away from eminent danger , put him upright preferably close to the same par level in the tank and allowed him to try to recover on his own . Not sure what you could possibly dip it with to neutralize the venom from the sting but by dipping him and moving him into a cup would only stress him out more . I would put him back in the tank and watch him carefully . Allow him the chance to fight for life without further stress . Good luck !!! Hope this helps

hello. he got a iodine dip. my thoughts when i woke up and saw this was i was already too late. this scoly is a dick and killed my bowerbanki months back. the banki got the white film and died 2 days later. it did the same thing as it did to the hammer, except i did nothing and it died. so today when i moved him away from the scoly i went back 30 minutes later and gave him a 15 minute seachem iodine dip and put him back in the tank. i started to question myself as posts ive seen says you must remove the coral that has the BJD to save other LPS. so i put him in a coral cup and put the coral cup at the top of the media basket so no new water can enter the cup but it will stay "submerged" and heated.

 

[Tbg299]

Hello this morning I woke up and my hammer knocked over and to close to the scoly. The scoly had its guts all over the hammer. The hammer has a white fuzz or film over 3/4 it's head. Not brown yet. I have given him a seachem reef dip. I've been afraid to add it back to the water and have been keeping it Ina coral travel cup. Is it a goner and kill my other euphylia in the tank or does it recover?

Keep it in a shaded and sheltered spot and feed heavily with amino acid enriched food to help support healthy polyps. Damaged polyps will become necrotic and disintegrate. Nothing else you can really do.

 

[Tbg299]

hello. he got a iodine dip. my thoughts when i woke up and saw this was i was already too late. this scoly is a dick and killed my bowerbanki months back. the banki got the white film and died 2 days later. it did the same thing as it did to the hammer, except i did nothing and it died. so today when i moved him away from the scoly i went back 30 minutes later and gave him a 15 minute seachem iodine dip and put him back in the tank. i started to question myself as posts ive seen says you must remove the coral that has the BJD to save other LPS. so i put him in a coral cup and put the coral cup at the top of the media basket so no new water can enter the cup but it will stay "submerged" and heated.

Dipping it will only stress it out even more...just leave it alone

 

[fisherc92]

Dipping it will only stress it out even more...just leave it alone

thanks. i dont think this head will make it. its oozing now and getting brown around the tips.

 

[CoralB]

Coral sting other coral that’s something that sometimes happens to no fault of our own . I’ve never had bjd from another coral sting . That would be a new one for me , either they live , live with a disfigurement from the sting , or they die . Somtimes totally receding and or fallout of their calcium structure . Do you have a small qt tank that you might keep him in . He really needs similar conditions that you have in the show tank to have half a chance . The floating cup thing doesn’t allow him to have fresh water and flow that he would need . Good luck hope this helps!!!

 

[Tbg299]

thanks. i dont think this head will make it. its oozing now and getting brown around the tips.

Yea unfortunately once it is stung, the damage is done. I would recommend just cutting the affected head off to protect the rest from tissue necrosis.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

hello. he got a iodine dip. my thoughts when i woke up and saw this was i was already too late. this scoly is a dick and killed my bowerbanki months back. the banki got the white film and died 2 days later. it did the same thing as it did to the hammer, except i did nothing and it died. so today when i moved him away from the scoly i went back 30 minutes later and gave him a 15 minute seachem iodine dip and put him back in the tank. i started to question myself as posts ive seen says you must remove the coral that has the BJD to save other LPS. so i put him in a coral cup and put the coral cup at the top of the media basket so no new water can enter the cup but it will stay "submerged" and heated.

I would have done the iodine dip too, but others are correct that now, it needs to go back in the tank in a place with lower lighting and flow, and be left alone. Any time we move a coral, it stresses them out, so the less disruption the better.
Good luck, and keep us posted