Heads falling off hammer coral

[Noobie_fish]

Had this ever happened to anyone? The heads of my hammers are slowly detaching and falling off the body.


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[inurmind]

Pics?

[jessegarcia28]

Check your parameters


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[Dreamkeeper]

if all parameters are inline including temp they are prone to brown jelly disease. Pics will help.
brown jelly disease pictures

[Kris]

DkH?

Personal observation: this kind of skeletal/flesh detachment frequently occurs during or immediately after trans-shipment, and appears to be a response to environmental stress. Mushrooms also detach from their footholds in a similar fashion.

I have heard that they can be successfully relocated this way, but I have never seen that done. I have often wondered if these corals can relocate themselves in the wild in this fashion?

If you are having tissue necrosis associated with the detachment, that is a disease and different than the detachment observations I am referring too.

[Noobie_fish]

Thanks everyone for the response.


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[nanoreef1]

Thanks everyone for the response. I tried to get a shot.




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Something is wrong with your water chemistry. Check ammonia. That's happened to me a while back ammonia spiked heads started falling did 80 percent water change.

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[D_moran13]

One thing I know that happens, which I know from personal experience lol, is when you put the coral in too much flow. That is especially the case with LPS because their soft body tissue is rubbing and cutting itself on the sharp calcium skeleton. If it's only head that are falling off from one portion, then that's what it may be. If it's throughout the entire coral, then it's chemistry. Hope that helps!

[swplimited]

Ime, mag and alk are very important for torches, frogspawns and hammers, I don't even keep them anymore because I have bad luck with them lol

[Zrobotz]

I would test your alk. I bet it's low how often do you dose and do waterchanges.


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[nanoreef1]

+1 Water chemistry and best thing you can do is big water change should help. Lighting the same?

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[Zrobotz]

Regular waterchanges %20 weekly you won't even have to worry about mag hammers and torches and frogspawns suck the alk up like crazy you probably should be doseing daily. I've had the same frogspawn for 6 years the only time I've seen issues with it was when my alk was too low. I have it in high flow bare bottom Sps dominate tank it does fine I don't think flow is a issue


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[Noobie_fish]

Thanks guys. This was a few months ago. Everything is good now.


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[cshplumber]

I thought it was funny that this post popped back up after almost 2 months but since it did and you responded, can you tell us what happened and what you found out of did?