Bi color hammer...needs help

[Reefer40b]

So I have a small 3 headed hammer, I hit it with the sand vac and one of the heads got damaged(started to get some brown jellys on the underside). Not really extending its tenticles.

So.. I dipped it in some Iodine once and it improved just a little, My question is should I continue to dip more or let it ride? Doesnt look like it has declined anymore but also doesnt look to be getting better just at a stand still. Maybe chop that damaged head off or has the whole thing been infected now? Just looking to see what you guys think.

 

[clowncaldy27]

I'd dip it maybe once daily just to help treat and prevent and see how it goes after a week or so .. I wouldn't jump to chopping the head off yet

 

[Reef Bass]

I doubt the whole thing is infected unless brown jelly is spreading over it.

Bumping / banging a hammer head can result in the tissue being cut on the skeleton, allowing infection to creep in. Most of the time, depending on the severity, the head pouts for a couple days, gradually reopens and a week or 10 days later is fine.

In my experience, if it keeps dwindling over time, odds are it's a goner eventually. Iodine dips could help. I'd probably go every 2-3 days until it shows improvement.

Myself, if I saw any brown jelly, I'd hack the head off right away. Brown jelly can spread unbelievably fast. I've seen it spread over 4" diameter corals overnight.

I find frogspawn are more sensitive, more likely to retract and not recover, to being banged than hammers.

 

[Reefer40b]

I doubt the whole thing is infected unless brown jelly is spreading over it.

Bumping / banging a hammer head can result in the tissue being cut on the skeleton, allowing infection to creep in. Most of the time, depending on the severity, the head pouts for a couple days, gradually reopens and a week or 10 days later is fine.

No its not spreading over it but its been about 10 days and really no improvement. thats exactly what happened its skeleton had cut the tissue.

In my experience, if it keeps dwindling over time, odds are it's a goner eventually. Iodine dips could help. I'd probably go every 2-3 days until it shows improvement.

Myself, if I saw any brown jelly, I'd hack the head off right away. Brown jelly can spread unbelievably fast. I've seen it spread over 4" diameter corals overnight.

I find frogspawn are more sensitive, more likely to retract and not recover, to being banged than hammers.

I think I will keep up the iodine dips every 3 days, unless I see it get worse, and then just pull it if I have to. Or possibly just chop the 2 heads off on that side and try and keep the healthiest one going.

Lesson learned though will be real sensitive to these guys in the future.:headwally:

 

[Reef Bass]

You're not the first to encounter this issue. I've done this more than once. :wildone:

Fortunately Euphyllia grow relatively rapidly and even if I lose a head or two, new ones will form eventually.