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vest0830
07/04/2006, 06:32 AM
THe other morning I wake up to my hammer coral all closed up, and it pulled itself WAY into its shell/skeleton. I didnt think to much of it, sometimes it closes up if a snail falls on it or something...I come home in the afternoon and its even furthur into the skeleton. -To the point where it looks like a white skeleton in the tank.

Today I did my usuall weekend tank cleaning, tank was a little cloudy nothing out of the ordinary, now its 100% cloudy and the hammer is still shut WAY up. could the thing have died and causing the cloudiness? It looked perfectly healthy a week ago ???

ohh yeah, tank peram's are great and just did a water change a week ago.
jeffb3t
07/04/2006, 06:49 AM
Are you dripping kalk? What's the temp in the tank? has it increased or decreased rapidly in the past day?
vest0830
07/04/2006, 06:59 AM
accually, yeah it shot up quite a bit the other day. -And I havent dripped in about a week. -it was before the water change.
jeffb3t
07/04/2006, 07:21 AM
I would bet the temp change is what did it. try to keep it stable if you can and do another water change. Water quality is the key IMO
vest0830
07/04/2006, 07:28 AM
yeah, but do you think it killed it?
vest0830
07/04/2006, 10:20 PM
I just got home from work for lunch, I think its a gonner :(
http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/100321hammer.jpg

Maybe when Josh or Mike returns they can point me in the direction of where they found it, or maybe I will have to replace it with something else??? :(
fdokinawa
07/04/2006, 11:13 PM
man that sucks man.. that thing was huge!! mines about a 1/3 the size that thing was and didnt look half as healthy.. I feel ya though.. lost a couple corals a while back to tank temps getting to high.
jeffb3t
07/05/2006, 02:59 AM
Don't give up on it yet!! Unless its a brown goo mess. A fast spike in temp can really mess up coral. My coral are used to rapid spikes and my finger was the first loss I can contribute to temp then again, I hit 89. Just keep doing small water changes every few days and see if it will make a comeback. Water quality and stability are the key to bringing back coral that are badly damaged.
vest0830
07/05/2006, 03:24 AM
I ended up pulling it out of the tank. I just come home and it was all stringy, brown, stickey and it stunk...it was time to go.

That just gives me more reason to find another large coral. Im going to take a trip down to the new coral shop in naha...the aqua culture okinawa place...im not sure if they will be open, but im going down anyways. in the new marine aquariest magazine they have an ariel view of the shop, so I think I can find it.

RIP hammer coral. :(
jeffb3t
07/06/2006, 02:31 AM
I hope you are doing lots of water changes now or at least testing the water for ammonia.
vest0830
07/06/2006, 05:54 AM
doing a water change in 5min accually. just got back from PPM
vest0830
07/06/2006, 06:31 AM
did a 1g water change and I will continue to do those
jasalmanza
07/08/2006, 07:26 PM
After this typhoon blows over I'll take you out to where me and josh got it. Let me know when is good for you....
vest0830
07/08/2006, 10:32 PM
Whenever is good for me. Im pretty busy next weekend, but any time throughout the week sounds good! I appreciate it!