Help hammer coral is he dead???

[Bradw18]

Bought a new coral we'll the timing got messed up and I was at work when he got delivered. The driver for the wholesale company told the fish store owner to open the bag and add water out of her tank to the bag . Instead of putting it in her tank, she said when it arrived it was fully open. I got off at 530 so he set in the open bag for 4 hours. We'll now the hammer coral is in my tank and hasn't opened any and can barley see any tissue inside the skeleton. Think he'll make it???? Is there anything I can do to improve his chances?

 

[Bradw18]

 

[DeniseAndy]

Crazy. That should not have disintegrated that fast if it was open and happy 4 hours earlier. Not calling anyone a liar, just a bit fishy. Not great pics, but looks like an empty skeleton. Was there a bunch of debris and nasty stuff in the bag? If not, there was no coral in there.

 

[Bradw18]

It was bagged about 4am in Chicago. Got delivered to pet store at 11:30am with a hole in bag. Unsure how much water was lost I was at work. She put coral into a new bag and added her tank water. When I got him at 5:30 pm same day I could see very few green tenticals. It's been in my tank since yesterday about 6pm. I know the whole seller wouldn't let the coral ship looking like that there to big of a company.

 

[Bradw18]

I'll take better pics when I get home.

 

[TheEngineer]

Looks like a goner to me. I agree that's way too fast for it to be completely devoid of tissue though.

 

[kendavjac]

Don't throw it out. Had one that looked like that. Sat it in a quiet corner in my tank and forgot about it. A month later it came back. Over the next six months it went from 2 heads to around 20. Give it time

 

[DeniseAndy]

I almost always keep the what I thought was a goner in my tank for a while to see what happens. Still think that is a short time to be devoid of tissue. Was their dead tissue in the bag? Did the fish store dump it out? If it had a hole in the bag, that is not good.

 

[Bradw18]

I have to agree I had some coral that laid on the sand bed for months thinking it was dead but came back and looks beautiful just first time with a hammer coral

 

[Bradw18]

I have to agree I had some coral that laid on the sand bed for months thinking it was dead but came back and looks beautiful just first time with a hammer coral

 

[Bradw18]

Still not looking any better done a big water change due to all the dead stuff that came out of the hammer coral

 

[Bradw18]

Got another hammer coral frag from a fellow reefer. With in about 30 mins he started opening and looking great. So I know it's not my tank.

 

[ReeferBob]

I hope you got your money back for that. It looks like all the heads popped. Hammer and Frogspawn are one of the harder corals to keep happy.

 

[TheEngineer]

I hope you got your money back for that. It looks like all the heads popped. Hammer and Frogspawn are one of the harder corals to keep happy.

My experience is the opposite. I find hammers and frogspawns to be very forgiving.

 

[WindeyD]

My experience is the opposite. I find hammers and frogspawns to be very forgiving.

Agreed; my frogspawn has been super hardy

 

[Tank2379]

It was bagged about 4am in Chicago. Got delivered to pet store at 11:30am with a hole in bag. Unsure how much water was lost I was at work. She put coral into a new bag and added her tank water. When I got him at 5:30 pm same day I could see very few green tenticals. It's been in my tank since yesterday about 6pm. I know the whole seller wouldn't let the coral ship looking like that there to big of a company.

Where did this coral come from in Chicago?