Hammer coral mouth?

[TheXpander]

Hi,

I had a flood with my canister filter last night during a water change so I’ve had to drop the level of the tank and the flow has changed as the filter is off. Came home and saw my hammer has moved a bit, looks like a mouth is exposed? Haven’t seen this before, is it normal? Thanks all

 

[danR777]

Hi,

I had a flood with my canister filter last night during a water change so I’ve had to drop the level of the tank and the flow has changed as the filter is off. Came home and saw my hammer has moved a bit, looks like a mouth is exposed? Haven’t seen this before, is it normal? Thanks all

I think your hammer bailed out completely... that is the skeleton base left over.

They usually wither away first before they bail out like that... that is crazy

 

[Alexraptor]

That's not a mouth, you're missing a polyp. Looks like maybe it's suffered a polyp bailout.

 

[TheXpander]

Ah no way! I take it this is non recoverable?

 

[Alexraptor]

I mean... there is nothing left to recover there, it's just 'bone' left, so I'm afraid that individual polyp is gone. =/

 

[TheXpander]

Wow. Ok thanks. I’m really new to corals so hadn’t heard of this before. Mad it still looks ok though!

 

[SahnCH]

Hey there!
When this happen shall we let it go as it is or cut the bone of the dead polyp?

 

[NowGlazeIT]

Hey there!
When this happen shall we let it go as it is or cut the bone of the dead polyp?

Let it go because it’s a branching hammer not a wall hammer

 

[SahnCH]

Got you, thanks!

 

[TheXpander]

To update, it detached completely and I got rid of it, better than risking decay etc I think. On the plus side there were 2 heads and the other one is looking good.
A canister flood and losing half my hammer in 24 hours
Thanks everyone

 

[TheXpander]

Picture added(camera is terrible, apologies)