Hammer Explosion? ..& not in a good way

[Mermaid5433]

This Hammer has been acting up for the past two weeks, never fully expanded with short, lifeless tentacles...however it NEVER lost it's color, and was still eating! Everything I researched told me it was splitting so I left well enough alone..until today I came home to this. POOF gone. Now I've had my fair share of issues starting out in this hobby, and creeped through countless hours of forums / pictures...never have I seen anything like this!

Flow/Lights/Params/Stock - Nothing has changed whatsoever, had a short-lived and minor phosphate problem..Phosguard remedied quickly.

Anyone have ideas about what on earth has happened here?

 

[rvareef]

she gone

 

[fijisrfr]

I woke up last week to notice a receding edge of my centerpiece torch, figure I would have to remove that head when I got home from work. Got home, too late, looked like yours except it had about 12 heads! I feel your pain!


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[Mermaid5433]

...Was it the same with yours, nothing wrong with parameters..just instant death?

Now I'm paranoid that if it can happen once without me knowing why..it can surely happen again!

 

[mcgyvr]

I see cyano on the rocks..
Its also possible that it simply injured itself on its own sharp skeleton simply from too much flow..

FYI.. Its also not a "soft coral" but rather a LPS coral..

 

[Mermaid5433]

That particular hammer has been in a very low flow area since purchased so that couldn't possibly be the issue....& the cyano was from the phosphate spike a couple weeks back that the janitors haven't gotten to quite yet.

I'm still at a loss...lol

 

[rvareef]

...Was it the same with yours, nothing wrong with parameters..just instant death?

Now I'm paranoid that if it can happen once without me knowing why..it can surely happen again!

post a full tank shot, I bet your phosphate spike is what caused it to die

 

[Mermaid5433]

Attached picture is from 4 days ago (currently "supposed" to be working so I can't get one right at this moment)

...this is exactly 3 days before the hammer died. It's the small purple-ish one directly above the frogspawn - when I thought it looked as if it was splitting.

 

[Knuckledragger]

Mine did that when my nutrients were too low. First went the hammers followed by my torches and than my duncans. Stopped running any GFO and started feeding a bit more and all is well and showing good growth.

 

[Phixman]

What are you parameters ? Running GFO & Carbon? How long have you had it?

 

[Phixman]

posted in wrong place