LPS Death

[lefkonj]

So irritating. I have several LPS (Hammers, Frogspawn, Elegance and torch) corals in my tank. On Thursday one of my favorite hammers decided to kick me in the n-ts and start to recede. Everything else looks fine but this one coral that has been in its spot for more than 6 months looking great, today more than half is dead dead. Anything I can try? Should I just remove it to prevent whatever is happening from moving to another corral.

 

[Brian barranco]

Pictures ?

 

[lefkonj]

Sorry wasn't home when I posted this.

 

[John3]

Specifically see if you had a alkalinity swing or if your nitrates are really high (like 30+)

 

[Nick30G]

Honestly man I have found Hammers to be the most sensitive of the Eupyhilla family. I quit trying to keep them after I had two of them die on me slowy over a course of several months with no issues with parameters. However I have a Torch and Frogspawn that absoultely thrives and has grown from 2 heads to 10 heads over the course of a year, makes sense huh lol? I found they were very picky with flow and can get easily infected/damaged. I also see you have a wall variety hammer which makes your problem even worse as the wall varietys are more sensitive and are more prone to dying since its just one big giant head rather then a branching variety where the heads are seperated.

 

[AC1211]

I don't know I have 4 LPS frags for 6 months with 0 growth. They are all still alive but the duncan is struggling the torch and candy cane and frogspawn are doing fine but no growth I can't figure out lps.

 

[KSUChemist]

One of my hammers had one head recede on me. I figured out my skimmer was not working optimally and I had a bunch of organic building up in the tank. Fixed the skimmer and the hammer is coming back (now I have GHA to take care of ). My tank is all LPS and softies. 2 hammers, torch, blasto, favia, shrooms, leather. Only that one hammer head showed any discomfort.

 

[Ifreitas14]

I had a hammer also dying a very big colony it was towards the bottom of the tank so I tested everything and all was good so I decide to add more flow to the tank and feed more to bring up nutrients and it bounced back