What's wrong with my Hammer?

[Angler02]

I have a large wall hammer that I have had for about 3 months and up until about 2 days ago it has been doing very well. The bottom portion is dead but I can't figure out why or why it happened so quick. I haven't changed anything.

 

[le-collector]

Ive had this happen to me possibly a brown jelly infection,you could do a coral disinfectent dip for 5 minutes and see if that helps

 

[cfw1199]

yeah you better get it now....if not it will take the whole thing out.......there is some stuff that seachem makes that works wonders...i will see if I can find it....

 

[cfw1199]

seachem stress guard...I had a lfs that gave me one that was 2/3rds gone.....talked to mark at bluezoo and he said try that...i did..just used a syringe and shot it right on the hammer inside the tank.....it took about 2 weeks for it to fully recover....the dead part won't come back but you can save the tissue that is still alive.....worked great for me....

 

[Angler02]

Thanks I will see if any local lfs stores have it.

 

[Angler02]

Any idea as to what causes this?

 

[Jeff]

Bump, I had the same thing happen to me recently.

 

[Mental1]

me too -- lost my whole hammer to brown jelly...

 

[Angler02]

I broke off the bottom portion of the hammer and I hope that it will stop killing it.

 

[tmz]

Brown jelly is a protozoan. It usually gets a foothold in a wound eating damaged and necrotic tissue and keeps going into healthy tissue. Is anything nipping your euphylia anchora(hammer)?

 

[Angler02]

Well I had a copper banded butterfly up unitil 3 or 4 days ago, but I had never seen him nip at it. My other livestock consists of a harliquin tusk, splendid dotty back, hippo tang, and a lawn mower blenny.

 

[tmz]

I'd watch the hippo and the lawnmower. Not likely but sometimes. Is anything near it that could be reaching out at night and stinging it.

 

[stephj03]

What is your salinity? My hammers and frogspawn get mad at me sometimes when I forget to top off.
Jared