Wow, that was fast.

[PoukieBear]

I posted a few days ago about my hammer possibly getting too mych light. Link to that thread But now, I believe the problem was something else.

I moved to coral to the bottom of my tank. This is what I woke up to find this morning...

Which has led be to believe that it may have been stung by my closed brain coral. This is my first ever loss of a coral (Or partial loss) Is it normal for an entire head to dissapear and show skeletal tissue in a matter ot two days?

Do you think that the head right next to it will be affected? The other two branches look fine, and I'm not worried about them.

Thanks.

 

[Freed]

How close was it to the closed brain? I have never seen long sweepers on a closed brain but I could be wrong.(GASP!) Can you tell if the tissue is peeled off of the skeleton or just really tight against it? Could come back in a week or so.

 

[PoukieBear]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12226857#post12226857 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Freed
How close was it to the closed brain? I have never seen long sweepers on a closed brain but I could be wrong.(GASP!) Can you tell if the tissue is peeled off of the skeleton or just really tight against it? Could come back in a week or so.

It was placed about 6 inches away from the closed brain.

I have never seen sweepers on a closed brain either.....until the other night. Those things are LONG! It could have easily reached where the hammer was placed.

I'll try to get a picture of the sweepers for you Freed. Just to make sure that you are, in fact, WRONG ! :lol:

It looks like the tissue has completely peeled away from the skeleton. There isn't any tissue left.

I'll definatly leave the hammer where it is, safely out of reach of all other corals, and see if that head makes a comeback.

 

[Freed]

Ah then, yes, it is possible for the hammer to disappear that fast if it were stung. WOW!, I was wrong. Hehe

 

[GoingPostal]

Just watch out for brown jelly infection, if that happens you have to act fast or it can spread and kill the whole hammer. Keep it in good flow and if you see any brown goo forming siphon it out and dip the whole thing in an iodine solution.

 

[PoukieBear]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12226941#post12226941 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GoingPostal
Just watch out for brown jelly infection, if that happens you have to act fast or it can spread and kill the whole hammer. Keep it in good flow and if you see any brown goo forming siphon it out and dip the whole thing in an iodine solution.

Thanks, I have been keeping an eye out for that. *fingers crossed* so far, no sign of it.

 

[cfw1199]

I would just snip the dead head off right now and not take the chance....pair of garden snips will take it right off with no damage at all to the undamaged head......no since in waking up to brown jelly and the other head gone as well....

 

[PoukieBear]

I don't think I want to give up on it completely.

I have a frogspawn in my tank too. When I got it, one of it's heads was completely gone. Just skeleton. I didn't cut it off, and now it has regrown, AND it has split into two heads now.

I'm not going to toss it just because there is a chance that it may get brown jelly. There are ways to fix that.

 

[cfw1199]

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