Help with hammers

[mOnsterzOas26]

Does anybody know what causes hammer heads detaching from the skeleton ?

 

[Hausser]

I have never had that issue but I have heard it could be due to high flow.

 

[Triggreef]

Yes. Death.

I had this happen for a while and lost old hammer, torch and frog spawn colonies and new frags, as well as almost all my acro and acans. The only odd things I found were through a triton test, copper and zinc were both elevated. Monti, stylos, zoas, birdsnest and many other corals unaffected. I since cleared up those issues alone, and now have acro, hammer, torch, and frogspawns and acans doing quite well again.

Highly suggest a triton test.

 

[StevenBell]

Along with the above stated there could have been a parasite or just any other number of un knowns.What are your h20 parameters at?

 

[Tab28]

Current is an issue but not to only one. Polyp bailout in euphyllia is not uncommon. Your water perimeters may help. That is more often why polyps bail.

 

[Mike in CT]

When I had a nitrate spike (after discontinuing vodka dosing) I had polyp bailout. Did some large water changes and got back on the juice and I was able to save the rest. I had a hammer that lost 3 out of 8 heads or so. Have you done any basic testing lately?