Amyandlars
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I finally got a hammer and frogspawn of my own. Here's a picture of them in my QT tank
My first coral purchase
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Chevrontang25
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Awesome
Amyandlars
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awww crap...
awww crap...
this has now become the help post so you saw the hammer yesterday, and today this is what it looks like...
the flesh is coming off the one head, so far all the other heads look good and same as yesterday. Do I need to worry about the other heads?
Oh and I dipped it before it went into QT using coral disenfectant.
awww crap...
this has now become the help post so you saw the hammer yesterday, and today this is what it looks like...
the flesh is coming off the one head, so far all the other heads look good and same as yesterday. Do I need to worry about the other heads?
Oh and I dipped it before it went into QT using coral disenfectant.
2OceanLovers
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What are your params? What lighting is it under and what lighting did it come from?
Amyandlars
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I think I found most of the problem my SG was 1.030. Ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates were all zero. I changed 10% and started adding some fresh water a cup every 15 minutes. Do I need to slowly change the SG?
Lighting is 20w actinic compacts. Store lighting was 10k MH's. They had about 7 hours of lighting today.
Lighting is 20w actinic compacts. Store lighting was 10k MH's. They had about 7 hours of lighting today.
Amyandlars
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also, ph is 8.0, alk is 150ppm. Somehow the thermostat got cranked up and the tank temp at water change was almost 86 degrees, so that probably made the elevated SG even worse.
2OceanLovers
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Slowly bring the SG down to around 1.024-0.26. The temp needs to come down also. Try some ice cubes in the tank. That will kill the temp and SG prob. Just make sure that the ice doesn't touch anything live. The ph could go a little higher, but I have had mine at 8 for a while and can't get it higher and all my corals have been fine. I think it was the SG and heat that caused that head to do that. How is it looking now?
i would say that you dont have sufficient light.....a 20watt actinic bulb is not enough to keep LPS....or any coral for that matter. You say that this is a QT tank, is there a specific reason why they are in there? i would move them into your main display tank, and get them under better lighting and more stable conditions.
JMO
HTH
Rob
JMO
HTH
Rob
Amyandlars
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The only reason they are in QT is b/c they are new. And I've trying to get into the practice of QTing everything. This is the 2nd QT disaster though. The first was with a blenny, I had a sponge sitting in my sump for cycling. I bought the blenny went to look for the sponge only to have found sucked to shreds in one of the pumps. I think I might just go stick it into my main display, and go back to the QT drawing board.
John Kelly
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The problem looks to me like the coral already had brown jelly to begin with and one head had already died before you bought the coral. That is EXACTLY why you would want to quarantine it first instead of placing it in the main tank; especially if your main tank was well stocked with coral. Something like that could create a small disaster.
Amyandlars
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You can see the brown jelly for sure now. I pulled it out of the tank to get the jelly off and it stinks to high heavens. One side may not have the stinch, but its hard to say since it smells so bad. I'm redipping it now, and took out the frogspawn that was with it. Should I dip that one to now? Should I try fragging the possible healthy side?
Amyandlars
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This is what I did to fix this and what I learned from it. I hope that someone can learn from my mistakes, and save themselves some time and money.
I fragged of the sticky 3 heads. Dipped the other 3 heads, and took out all the water in the QT tank. I was using main tank water for water changes any way. So just used about half new water/half main tank water QT.
The frogspawn, I seperated from the hammer coral. I also turkey basted the heads, b/c there were some bits of dead hammer flesh in the frogspawn.
Yesterday I saw a bit of the flesh receding on the frogspawn, so I dipped it for 10 minutes. After the dip the frogspawn looked nice and inflated. I wanted to say that I dipped this coral, b/c a lot of new people to the hobby are afraid to stress out there corals or fish. Yes stress can kill them, but so will disease!
What I learned from this is thank goodness for that QT tank. And it was a cheap version of a QT tank, but I think I might put a little more time and money into it. Becuase this is where something is going to have to live for 2 months. I want to know that if it looks sick, it's b/c it came to me sick, and the QT tank didn't kill it.
I was also dissapointed with the store. I understand that you can get sick animals and it just happens. This store was clean, had a good reputation, and they had nothing dead in their tanks. But I had to drive 90 minutes one way to get to this store, and they have a crappy return policy of only 24 hours after purchase. I saw disease within 24 hours, but who has time for a 3 hour drive on Monday afternoon? I'm staying local or buying off the internet. Only b/c of better return policies.
I fragged of the sticky 3 heads. Dipped the other 3 heads, and took out all the water in the QT tank. I was using main tank water for water changes any way. So just used about half new water/half main tank water QT.
The frogspawn, I seperated from the hammer coral. I also turkey basted the heads, b/c there were some bits of dead hammer flesh in the frogspawn.
Yesterday I saw a bit of the flesh receding on the frogspawn, so I dipped it for 10 minutes. After the dip the frogspawn looked nice and inflated. I wanted to say that I dipped this coral, b/c a lot of new people to the hobby are afraid to stress out there corals or fish. Yes stress can kill them, but so will disease!
What I learned from this is thank goodness for that QT tank. And it was a cheap version of a QT tank, but I think I might put a little more time and money into it. Becuase this is where something is going to have to live for 2 months. I want to know that if it looks sick, it's b/c it came to me sick, and the QT tank didn't kill it.
I was also dissapointed with the store. I understand that you can get sick animals and it just happens. This store was clean, had a good reputation, and they had nothing dead in their tanks. But I had to drive 90 minutes one way to get to this store, and they have a crappy return policy of only 24 hours after purchase. I saw disease within 24 hours, but who has time for a 3 hour drive on Monday afternoon? I'm staying local or buying off the internet. Only b/c of better return policies.
