Help hammer coral

[Hbohi]

So i was doing a watcher change and i accidently hit my hammer and sucked half of his heads off...will be be ok???? I attached before and after pics

 

[Newsmyrna80]

It should be fine. I've hit and knocked over corals and they are ok. They also get beat up in the ocean a lot.

 

[Hbohi]

Ok thank you

 

[akitareefer]

Sucked them off while siphoning? Were the tentacles removed or did they just retract? If they're retracted your fine, if you removed them you might have to worry about infection.

 

[Hbohi]

Yes while siphoning and they were removed

 

[akitareefer]

I would use an iodine based dip to help prevent an infection. I've only ever sucked off a few tentacles, never a hole section.... not sure what will happen

 

[Hbohi]

Ok thank you

 

[Hbohi]

Checked on my hammer this mornjng and its still happy..2 days after accident

 

[akitareefer]

It doesn't look damaged at all. Are you sure the tentacles didn't just fully retract when you sucked on them? Glad its doing good

 

[Hbohi]

Well when i did the water change and i hit the hammer there was about 20 tentacles in the bucket

 

[akitareefer]

Wow lol. That's an amazing recovery

 

[Hbohi]

i know i got lucky.. i watched it like a hawk too

 

[StaySalty]

Looks really good. I have accidentally turkey bastered tentacles off my frogspawn multiple times. It never seems to get really affected by this.

 

[Sk8r]

Save the lost heads in a shallow glass dish in the tank, which will prevent them being blown about: the lost heads CAN regrow skeleton if conditions are optimum.

 

[Deberber]

You could never tell it got hurt. I got one a few days ago and was wondering, since I see yours is glued, if you just glue the bottom of it to the rock?

 

[Hbohi]

i got it that way...but yes just put a little bit of glue on the bottom and glue it