Hammer coral weird stringy polyps

[raythereefer]

Cant work out what's happening with a couple of my hammers it has happened within the last 24 hours. Some heads are really closed up and the polyps look to be hanging off like string. Any ideas what it is ? And should I buy a dremel and take off the affected heads to save it happening to any others ?

 

[krissiRLT]

Polyps are bailing out, could be multiple different reasons. I’m not seeing brown jelly so that’s good. The dremel is a risk, could help, could stress out the rest of the coral. Up to you if you want to try. I’d focus first on what your parameters are and how stable they are, try to maintain stability. Maybe dose a little Brightwell Restore or something like it. I don’t recommend over rotating and throwing a bunch of possible solutions at it without knowing the issue.