Wallhammer stung by echinata / leave alone or dip?

[lukestrothman]

Enchinata fell on my favorite wall hammer 10% of the wall is just fleshy bits hanging off from me not finding it until 12 ish hours after it happened. Should I just leave the wall hammer alone ? Or should I take it out and dip it and return to tank?

Really don’t want to lose this wall, it’s my favorite coral.

 

[Troylee]

Wall hammers are hard to keep period.. not sure what it’s looking like today but an iodine bath wouldn’t hurt.

 

[jkcoral]

Definitely dip. Wall hammers are notoriously difficult to keep long term in home aquariums, and if it’s been stung you might have a hard time getting it to bounce back if you wait to take action.

 

[kevgib67]

Dipping is called for because of the exposed flesh, you don’t want a secondary bacterial infection to settle in. Sorry, this happened, things like this always seem to happen when we are not home, ugh!