Hammer coral problem

[ericrod24]

I’ve had this hammer for 5 months no issues then about 3 weeks ago closed up. It’s has stayed closed and will not fully open. I dipped it and it shed some skin from the head once put in dip. Here is how it stays all day and night

 

[vsolovyev]

is it showing any skeleton? What did you use to dip it? What are your parameters?

 

[JGT]

Half of it is dead. The other half is not looking good ether.

 

[dedragon]

did you dip in bayers or seachem for flatworms? they have been going around as of late for some reason. hard to tell though given the pic. What are tank parameters, lights, rodi water tds? Just some stuff that could help diagnose the issue

 

[ericrod24]

I used brightwell koralMD. This is my first hammer and always dip coral for pest. My LFS said to dip it and see how it responds. When I dipped it some brown slim came out of heads.

 

[ericrod24]

I had coral life led bar and switched to two kessel a80s I noticed when I put kessels it started closing up more.

 

[Frag Farm]

Looks like nudi on stem dip dip dip...

 

[dedragon]

never used koralmd before. Dont know if you did but just adding, always shake the euphyllia a bit first so it deflated before dipping, break off from frag plug, and scrub with a small toothbrush as well to make sure there are no eggs from anything leftover. Then glue to a new plug.

 

[dedragon]

Grainy photo but it may be brown jelly disease, look that up and see if it fits. But again do you know the parameters, and tds of rodi water as well? Also how large is the tank, kessil a80s are nice but not too powerful though i dont expect the lighting to be the problem here at all. You could dim them a bit for a while because they are definitely more powerful than the coralife one

 

[Rtaylor]

It’s probably too late, it looks like brown jelly disease (bjd). The only thing I’ve ever heard of working is Cipro treatment. It’s worth a shot, but it doesn’t look like it has much time left. I’d be surprised if it survives unfortunately.

 

[ericrod24]

My LFS checked parameters last week said everything good for a 29 gallon. I only use saltwater and rodi water from them. I’m worried due to I have two other large hammers in same tank.

 

[Rtaylor]

My LFS checked parameters last week said everything good for a 29 gallon. I only use saltwater and rodi water from them. I’m worried due to I have two other large hammers in same tank.

I’d get Cipro and treat the tank, there’s a thread on here for how to do it. Bjd is a bacterial infection. It won’t show up on normal testing.

 

[ericrod24]

It’s in my quarantine tank right now and saw one of the pieces fall off . My first salt water tank.

 

[Rtaylor]

It’s in my quarantine tank right now and saw one of the pieces fall off . My first salt water tank.

Are the other hammers with it?

 

[ericrod24]

I’d get Cipro and treat the tank, there’s a thread on here for how to do it. Bjd is a bacterial infection. It won’t show up on normal testing.

Where would I get cipro?

 

[ericrod24]

They were not too close nowhere near touching

 

[Shirak]

chewy.com for cipro. go to the fish section for pills

 

[ericrod24]

I took this picture about a month ago was so healthy I don’t get how it declined so fast.

 

[ericrod24]

Also noticed my torch is not as open as when I got it. Only new thing I’ve added to tank is polyfilter pad to hob filter.

 

[Shirak]

Brown jelly disease will kill the coral in a couple days time. Good chance the other hammers in the system will catch it also so get the cipro ASAP and cross your fingers