Hammer Help

[Ksturg]

Ok so I took my hammer out of the water about 2 months ago to get a pest coral off of it and to reglue it. Ever since I have done that this is what it has looked like. Any help would be appreciated

 

[craiguk]

I take it that it's back in the same place? What was the pest? Anything else change in the tank? And... do you have other hammers that are doing OK? -- sorry for barrage of questions but it'll help diagnose.

 

[Ksturg]

Sorry this is my frogspawn not my hammer…yes back in the same place nothing has changed in the tank and all other corals and euphillya are doing good. I’ll attach a pic of the stupid pest coral.

 

[Ksturg]

This is the tank

 

[Uncle99]

Ok so I took my hammer out of the water about 2 months ago to get a pest coral off of it and to reglue it. Ever since I have done that this is what it has looked like. Any help would be appreciated

That would depend on what process you used to remove the pest!

Some corals don’t do well with some dips.

 

[Ksturg]

That would depend on what process you used to remove the pest!

Some corals don’t do well with some dips.

I didn’t dip I used an exacto knife and slowly and carefully scraped it off the stalk.

 

[Uncle99]

I didn’t dip I used an exacto knife and slowly and carefully scraped it off the stalk.

What pest coral, the Xenia?

 

[Ksturg]

What pest coral, the Xenia?

Yes sir it was….idk if I’m missing something else? Maybe pull it out and dip it?

 

[Uncle99]

Yes sir it was….idk if I’m missing something else? Maybe pull it out and dip it?

How long was it attached to the frogspawn?

 

[Ksturg]

How long was it attached to the frogspawn?

Uh not really sure…it came in on the bottom of the frag plug and when I noticed it had grown on the top of the plug I noticed it had grown up the back side of the stalk. I immediately pulled it out put the frog on a new plug….best guess maybe 3 weeks

 

[Ksturg]

Ok so I noticed I have a crap ton of what looks like tiny rocks all over my tank. I decided to take the coral out and dip it for pests…found nothing except for 2 tiny looking snails hiding out between the 4 heads. Hopefully that was what it was and it will bounce back here soon.