branching hammer

[shroom101]

I had a rock fall on one of my hamme5rs heads and I was wondering if there is anything I can do for it or isl it not going to make it,and will the other branches be ok.thanks alot any help will be appreciated

 

[Salty Joy]

Sometimes they survive, but probably not good. Quarantine it for two weeks, watch it. If it doesn't look good, don't put it back in the tank.

 

[crvz]

I don't know how a QT would help, I'd just leave it in place and keep up the water quality. If it's physical damage, it may or may not recover, but I'd be surprised if other heads of the coral are affected.

 

[sjm817]

Agree. Should be OK.

 

[Salty Joy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13224319#post13224319 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by crvz
I don't know how a QT would help, I'd just leave it in place and keep up the water quality. If it's physical damage, it may or may not recover, but I'd be surprised if other heads of the coral are affected.

When a coral receives damage, it will get stressed. They will release a slime coat that can be harmful to other fish and corals. The aquarium is an extremely small enviornment. In the ocean, not a big deal. In an aquarium, big deal.

 

[DougBushBC]

I have had the exact same thing happen to a large branching hammer and a large anchor torch, the torch did fine and is still great with one dead head (like 8 or 9 more good heads) the hammer started to struggle and eventually the whole thing died. Maybe I should have QTed but I think it just continued to decline after the damage.

 

[crvz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13225293#post13225293 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SaltWaterQueen
When a coral receives damage, it will get stressed. They will release a slime coat that can be harmful to other fish and corals. The aquarium is an extremely small enviornment. In the ocean, not a big deal. In an aquarium, big deal.

true enough, but I dont think the slime would really impact that much else in the tank. I think the moving the damaged coral to a makeshift QT (which is likely in most cases) of small volume and poor filtration increases the risk of losing the entire colony, whereas the risk to the tank is pretty small (unless the slime is coating a different species in the tank, I'm rather confident that a skimmer would pull out whatever gets into the water column).

 

[shroom101]

thanks alot everybody,when I got home from work last night it was not looking too good so I dont think it will pull through the rest of the branches fortunately are looking good

 

[Salty Joy]

Is it possible to frag the good parts? You might be able to salvage something.