What happened to my hammer?

[BanZI29]

What happened to my hammer? Is the flow too strong or something else wrong?

 

[BanZI29]

It looks bad to me but...

 

[Flippers4pups]

Typically when I see a member's euphyllia struggling I ask:

How old is the tank?
What is your water parameters?
How long have you had the euphyllia?
Do you have any Peppermint shrimp?
Do you spot feed them?
Have you noticed any Brown or clear slime coming from it?

 

[BanZI29]

Tanks been cycled since sept.
Been in for 3 weeks now
no shrimp
I do spot feed
No slime at all except after feeding. It is clear with food in the slime
I have 2 others that do not look like this.
Params are
Ammonia=0
Nitrite=0
Nitrate=0
Calcium=420
DKh=8
Ph= 8.1
Phos=.267

Just did a 80%water change because phos was way worse. The rest are typical levels.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Okay, having little to no N03 is minor, but all corals do up take N03 and P04.

I would discontinue spot feeding it for a while.

Is it's "mouth" gapped?

 

[Uncle99]

So, I’d say
No nutrients is not a good number, trace, but not zero.
Phosphate to high for a young tank.

Maybe some damage to a couple tips.

 

[Cell]

Has the look of a localized sting, but nothing apparently close to it in the photo.

 

[iamacat]

I can’t tell but when I zoom, it looks like white fluff in the middle. If you can get a closer pic of that, it might help.

 

[BanZI29]

I cant see the mouth but tried to get a bit closer of a pic

 

[BanZI29]

To me, he looks physicly damaged but I really dont know. Maybe a crab gog him or.....

 

[Uncle99]

Test bite mark?
You have someone that might try that?

 

[BanZI29]

Has the look of a localized sting, but nothing apparently close to it in the photo.

Yea nothing really close at all that would sting.

 

[iamacat]

Can we get a mag and salinity as well?

any recent temp changes?

 

[BanZI29]

No mag test. Salinity is 1.025 and temp went from 79 to 75in 3 days. It got comd here in florida

 

[iamacat]

Temp change isn’t tolerated too well with euphyllia. I’m guessing it is stressed from that.
Do you have any coral dip like medicoral from brightwell or coral cure from tropic marin?

 

[BanZI29]

Temp change isn’t tolerated too well with euphyllia. I’m guessing it is stressed from that.
Do you have any coral dip like medicoral from brightwell or coral cure from tropic marin?

I only have dip for new coral. No med dip. Wouldn't my other hammers and frog spawn look similar if they were stressed?

 

[iamacat]

You are correct, just putting that thought out there tho.

I asked about the dips because they have good success with saving euphyllia

 

[BanZI29]

What are rhe odds its from too much flow? I did have the wave pump about 6 inces above it and it did move alot.

 

[iamacat]

I recently lost a newly added hammer due to too much flow. That was due to a Nero that a snail popped off. I dipped that with the tropic marin and it slowly receded over the next month even with acute attention and care. Sometimes they recover, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they die even with everything going right

 

[Infidel]

Too much flow would definitely cause it to contract and could expose skeleton if it was intense.