Wall Hammer Coral Tissule Recession

[Daniel62]

I say Wall hammers are 1 of the hardest to keep alive. None of the people I know can keep them alive for more than a couple months. Good luck to you

 

[Enki]

getting worse

getting worse

I dipped the wall hammer again.
There is about 25% of the flesh left on the coral.
Crazy thing is, it looks health the living part.
I feel that if it was individual heads, of coral, and I was doing this process I would probably save the majority of the coral heads. With a Wall Hammer it seems like an infection is hard to stop spreading.
I decided to glue the skeleton to see what will happen.
Thanks

 

[firefighternick]

I just got the same problem with my wall hammer. At first I put gobs of superglue on the dead rotting parts, but I believe that it goes deeper into the skeleton than what I could get to. What solved it for me was I fragged off the dead parts with a dremel, straight into good tissue, and then sealed it off on the side with superglue, that way when it healed it was healing from good tissue and not the bad. Hope that makes sense.

 

[frankyrivera]

Wall hammers are notoriously hard to keep if not impossible long term. The branching variety have better success rate. I've tried dips change of light change of flow but it seems once it starts showing skeleton its downhill from there.

 

[rt67ghy]

You need to keep dipping it in Lugol's for some days for dipping to work. I have a wall and a branching hammer both of which had BJD when I got them. I dipped the wall for about 25 days and the branching for maybe 20 days. Now they're both fine and feeding and growing well.