Polyp bailout

JohnnyRambo · Jul 19, 2016

Recently in the past few months. I've had a beautiful bicolor hammer in my tank until recently on one side it seemed to have slowly pulled from the skeleton on one side just a bit. I recently had to move some corals out of my tank and into another 20 gallon in hopes of rehabilitation. After a few weeks of placement in the tank the hammer completely removed itself from the skeleton and I've heard of possible new hammers coming from the skeleton. But my real question is, what is the probability of the original hammer polyp thriving in a different location in the tank?

Lab_Adam · Jul 21, 2016

I personally don't know but it would be worth it to see what happens and post back here.

Tahoe61 · Jul 21, 2016

I have never seen one thread or post devoted to polyp bail out where the polyp went on to build skeleton. It may have happened and I would love to hear about it. Bail out is probably stress related, rule out chemistry first, specifically alkalinity.

TheEngineer · Jul 21, 2016

Tahoe61 said:
I have never seen one thread or post devoted to polyp bail out where the polyp went on to build skeleton. It may have happened and I would love to hear about it. Bail out is probably stress related, rule out chemistry first, specifically alkalinity.

Agreed. Bailout is usually the last ditch effort for the coral to save itself. I'd check your chemistry and make sure your params are in order.

JohnnyRambo · Jul 22, 2016

The funny thing is that it's in a tank with acans and other SPS and there hasn't been an issue until this happened. I did a 5 gal change on my 29 gallon in hopes of restoring it. I plan on doing another change soon too.