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[kevgib67]

Paul caused me to make this!

 

[Calmwaters]

It's so nice here today, i should have played hooky and got my garden prepped up!

It looks beautiful outside here but I haven't gone out bright sunshine is bad for migraines. I'm hoping to go ride Leo for a while if I can get rid of the headache.

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

Today I hired the best helper ;)

You better pay attention and learn as much as you can Luis! It's not too often you'll be given such an opportunity to work with such a master :winking-face-with-tongue:

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

That's when I would get out my long tweezers and "move" the snails!

I joust em with a 30" pippete

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

It looks beautiful outside here but I haven't gone out bright sunshine is bad for migraines. I'm hoping to go ride Leo for a while if I can get rid of the headache.

I head someone say once to soak your feet in as hot of water as you can handle. It opens capillaries in your feet with helps relieve pressure in your head. Idk if it's true or not but

 

[Calmwaters]

I head someone say once to soak your feet in as hot of water as you can handle. It opens capillaries in your feet with helps relieve pressure in your head. Idk if it's true or not but

I will try that if the meds don't take care of it soon.

 

[tharbin]

I’ll keep an eye on it. My shrimp usually leaves corals alone and I haven’t caught him messing with it the hammer yet. So far the rest of the hammer looks fine today. It is right next to a frogspawn. But I think those can touch each other

Frogspawn and Hammers are usually fine next to each other. The main thing is that unlike may corals, a branching hammer can lose a head without affecting nearby heads to any extent so no need to frag unless it gets progressively worse. The same can not be said for wall hammers that used to be very common in the hobby. They are not only very difficult to frag but losing a head almost always lead to losing the colony.

Is it near any softies or aggressive LPS?

I'll tell you what happened with my last 'hammer extinction event' as maybe there will be something in it that helps.

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I had three hammers, a green, a gold and a peach. The green and gold started as 2-head colonies and the peach started as a 3-head. They were all doing well for many months. At the time of the incident the green was about twenty heads, the peach was eleven and the gold was fourteen. The green hammer was at the far end of the tank and the gold and peach were both a few inches in front of the cave the Peppermints were calling home.

I added three Peppermint Shrimp for Aiptasia control and all was well. They started slowly but after a few weeks the Aiptasia population was noticeably diminished. Everything was fine for a while. I don't really remember how long. One morning I noticed two of the heads on the gold hammer were damaged and one was completely gone. It looked like the shrimp had damaged the coral but I had not fed that day. Since hammers are frequently 'checked' by shrimp and fish I cursed a little and forgot about it. Over the course of, I think it was three days, the shrimp killed most of the heads on the gold and four of the heads on the peach. I moved them both away from the cave. The next day two more heads of the peach were gone and two heads on the green and one damaged head on the green as well. I set up a 15 gallon tank that day and transferred the hammers to it.

The gold lasted a couple more days but just shriveled up and died. The peach took a while but the four of the remaining five heads began to improve. The green never looked bad it just lost two heads. I eventually caught and gave the Peppermints to an LFS. I did frag the peach at that time because one of the two main stalks was nothing but dead heads so I severed that stalk much like you proposed for your hammer. The peach and the green have been returned to the display. The peach is back up to seven heads and is still a little deflated but improving every day. The green never looked bad it just has two dead stalks that you can only see from certain angles. I don't know how many heads it has now but I would guess somewhere around 25-30.

Hope it helps.

 

[kevgib67]

It looks beautiful outside here but I haven't gone out bright sunshine is bad for migraines. I'm hoping to go ride Leo for a while if I can get rid of the headache.

I pray it goes away soon so you can enjoy the beautiful day with Leo!

 

[Calmwaters]

I pray it goes away soon so you can enjoy the beautiful day with Leo!

Thank you my friend

 

[tbrown]

I will try that if the meds don't take care of it soon.

I usually try to grab an extra cup of coffee and a nap for my migraines.

 

[Calmwaters]

I usually try to grab an extra cup of coffee and a nap for my migraines.

I tried that already this morning. :winking-face:

 

[tbrown]

I tried that already this morning. :winking-face:

I took about a 15 minute nap yesterday afternoon, grabbed a Honey Haze Latte from Black Rock (hence the Avatar - Posh Hipster according to some), and then hooked the TENS machine to my lower back. Headache mostly cleared out - but it seems like mine are never gone, just hiding in the background somewhere, waiting for the right (or wrong) time to pounce!

 

[Calmwaters]

I took about a 15 minute nap yesterday afternoon, grabbed a Honey Haze Latte from Black Rock (hence the Avatar - Posh Hipster according to some), and then hooked the TENS machine to my lower back. Headache mostly cleared out - but it seems like mine are never gone, just hiding in the background somewhere, waiting for the right (or wrong) time to pounce!

Mine are like that a lot of times they go from really bad pain to an annoying pain that last sometimes days.

 

[Remi]

For migraine, I need to be in the dark.

For giveaway I need to do something to validate your entry ( I never did before)?

 

[tbrown]

For migraine, I need to be in the dark.

For giveaway I need to do something to validate your entry ( I never did before)?

The Tunze?

 

[Rocks reef]

Still looking about the same Keith. I'm starting to wonder if my peppermint shrimp was being a jerk to it. I expect it to waste away any day but it's still hanging in there my friend

Well, that's good to hear! At least it didn't bail that polyp.

 

[Rocks reef]

It's so nice here today, i should have played hooky and got my garden prepped up!

Sounds like a solid plan Mike

 

[Rocks reef]

It looks beautiful outside here but I haven't gone out bright sunshine is bad for migraines. I'm hoping to go ride Leo for a while if I can get rid of the headache.

Feel better Amanda!

 

[Remi]

The Tunze?

For all when you can tag. I don't know if your tag is enough for your entry or if I need to do something.

 

[Rocks reef]

How did some you get the "Partner Member" badge?