Hammer help

[Dana]

I bought a green hammer Saturday morning. It was happy for two days, but yesterday it started to shrivel up. Last night I did a water change with red sea salt. Today it's gone in further.
Here it is Sunday

And today

What's going on here?
Salinity 1024
Reef breeder led
I'll do a test shortly, but what generally speaking causes this?
Thanks

 

[danka-cedium]

Too much flow. Fish irritating it maybe?

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[Dana]

I'll try putting it in another spot

 

[Dana]

Here's a better photo. It looks like its dying

 

[danka-cedium]

Is there a brown jelly substance on the exposed skeleton?

 

[Dana]

Looks that way

 

[danka-cedium]

You can try a revive or iodine dip. But in all honesty if it if brown jelly the survival rate is like 5%

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[Dana]

Should I get it out?

 

[danka-cedium]

Yes, and as best as possible try not to get any of the jelly in the water.

Google brown jelly or search it here on r2r for better pics. Before making your choice

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[Dana]

Bummer. I put it on a bucket of leftover saltwater I had, and used a turkey Baster to blow out the slime. I know it's probly hopeless at this point. I suck

 

[danka-cedium]

Its nothing you did. Just happens.
Setup a simple qt tank for future purchases to protect your display.

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[Bartmmackey]

You can search my threads...mine got cooked....I swore it was dead but I left it in the tank.....a few months passed and it just came back..new buds everywhere.

 

[Dana]

I may just keep it in a bucket of water with some light and see what happens.

 

[Dana]

well, my hammer did not make it. i will test my parameters tonight and post em.

 

[Dana]

Here's my test results.
Temp - 77
Salinity - 1.025
Nitrate - 0
Nitrite - 0
Ammonia - 0.25 weird
Phosphate - 0.25
Kh - 12
Calcium - 480-500

 

[danka-cedium]

I don't know if p04 was the culprit, but that phos is high @ .03 coral stops growing.

 

[Dana]

I dunno why it's so high... Then again I recently removed my chemipure elite. I figured my cheato would consume phosphate. Maybe I'll try purigen. I do have a bad habit of over feeding tho. Gotta stop that lol

 

[Dana]

Is it safe to do two 5g water changes in two days on a 30g tank ya think?

 

[danka-cedium]

Yea. Just make sure cal pH temp all is the same.