Hammers Gone Sick???

[BigBen14]

My 4 day old Hammer coral has done something scary

Is this good or bad... Thanks for any tips


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[BigBen14]

Any idea?

 

[Bifferwine]

Sorry, I can't see the pics on my work computer, but I'll check when I get home.

 

[BigBen14]

lol Ohh ok Thank you :)

 

[dcantucson]

Sorry, I can't see the pics on my work computer, but I'll check when I get home.

Yup, Biff has gotten reprimanded several times for watching porn on her work computer. Then finally had to block pictures of any kind. She's had to enter a 12 step program now that it's been taken away. :mrgreen:

 

[Bifferwine]

Yup, Biff has gotten reprimanded several times for watching porn on her work computer. Then finally had to block pictures of any kind. She's had to enter a 12 step program now that it's been taken away. :mrgreen:

It's true. :cry:


:lol:

 

[BL1]

It doesn't look bad to me, that hole in the middle of the sagging part is it's mouth.

 

[reeffreak]

Looks healthy to me with its mouth open.Maybe feed it sometime maybe mysis,cyclops with the flow off.

The flesh on the stalk looks buried on the pic.You don't want that,try putting it in a crack between two rocks near the bottom.

 

[Bifferwine]

Now I'm home, I can see the pic!

It looks fine. Its polyps are out. Like reeffreak said, get the flesh out of the sand. If you leave it in the sand, it will rot.

 

[BigBen14]

Hmm well I may be wrong but the way he cut the stalk I think it was all flesh there... So stick it on a rock maybe?

If you so what should I used to stick the coral to a rubble?

 

[yote]

Just wedge the stalk in a crack between 2 pieces of rock.

 

[BigBen14]

Well the way my aquascape is I cant really do that.... But I did go buy some safe superglue and glue it to a rock and that seemed to do the trick:)


Side note... I am noticing these little spike coming out of the stalk is it branching ill try and get a picture soon.

 

[the reef kid]

Sounds like it, that's how some LPS grow.

 

[BigBen14]

XD that would be awesome lol

 

[BigBen14]

Hmmm Well this morning when I woke I found my hammers coral the part the was saggt has now fallen off, as well the polyps(???) are closed up.

Does this mean that it is dead?

Also should I leave the part that came off or take it out?

 

[Ulta]

Aww bummer man, I wish I had seen this thread when u posted I would have told you it didn't look so hot to me... haha, in the pic you posted it looks like how my mushroom was drooping on a bad day xD

In regards to whether or not you can bring it back to life... not sure. It would first involve understanding what was wrong with it...

 

[bjohanson1234]

Sometimes the flesh can get ripped off by too much flow. Try moving it to a lower flow area.

 

[BigBen14]

I dont think its the flow...

i think the store we bought it from cracked it when he split it from the mother colony

would that be a cause maybe?

 

[Ulta]

If that is true, then it would explain why it fell off. It means the "Crack" healed and instead of mending back together just separated. I would try to prop the casualty piece up in a high light/low flow area and try to nurture it back to health, possibly target feeding it if it will take.

And if not, and it starts looking like its rotting out then toss it :)

 

[BigBen14]

Im going to post some HD pictures of the hammers and the piece that came off and a video to show the flow.