Help! Woke up and found this!

[canadianeh]

I woke up this morning and found my hammer and lobo look like this. What’s on lobo and what happened to the hammer?? It looks like two heads are missing on the hammer (really cleaned).

Salinity 1.025-1.026
Temp 78
Alk 8.81
Cal 425
Mag 1332

my phosphate on the weekend was 0.328 in the weekend and I installed 1/2 cup of GFO in reactor. This morning the phosphate is 0.135 Nitrate was 25.

 

[canadianeh]

My fish are:
Yellow tang
Melanarus wrasse
Royal flasher wrasse
Yellow watchman
Clownfish
Molly miller
Dart fish

 

[canadianeh]

It looks like polyps bail out. I found it in the bottom of the tank. Another one bailed out as I stood there. Now I only have one polyp left. What’s causing this? Everything else look okay. This particular hammer has been in the tank for few months at least.

what should I do? What should I do with the polyps? I put them in a container in the tank for now.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Pic is fuzzy but I believe this is poriferan sponge which is common and can be invasive
Keep an eye on it
If it gets out of control, you can trim it, remove it or inject with air or vinegar via syringe to stop it in its tracks

 

[canadianeh]

Pic is fuzzy but I believe this is poriferan sponge which is common and can be invasive
Keep an eye on it
If it gets out of control, you can trim it, remove it or inject with air or vinegar via syringe to stop it in its tracks

Which one that you are referring to?

it is not a sponge. It is polyps bail out. As I tried to move the hammer to the bottom of the tank (maybe too much lights) all the polyps fell off. Now I put all of them in a container and hang it inside the tank. What should I do now?

 

[Textech]

My guess would be high phosphates and then the big swing in phosphates after the GFO was added.

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[Textech]

Can euphyllia live after polyp bailout? .... Absolutely!!

My Octo bailed from its skeleton back in Dec. It has lived happily in this cup since then. Has yet to grow another base though. But here is proof that euphyllias can live on!

www.reef2reef.com

 

[canadianeh]

Can euphyllia live after polyp bailout? .... Absolutely!!

My Octo bailed from its skeleton back in Dec. It has lived happily in this cup since then. Has yet to grow another base though. But here is proof that euphyllias can live on!

www.reef2reef.com

Thank you! So now I have four lose polyps and I am planning to get a container to put them in the tank. If I put them all together, will they stay separate? Or will they at some point grow into one colony? Will they attach to rock rubbles? I found another polyps on a small rock on the bottom of the tank.

 

[Brett S]

I can’t any help much with your issue, but I did want to say that you should be careful with that container being so close to your lights. If the coral was used to the light level at the bottom of the tank then putting it in that container at the surface will significantly increase the amount of light it’s getting and may stress it out even more.

 

[canadianeh]

I can’t any help much with your issue, but I did want to say that you should be careful with that container being so close to your lights. If the coral was used to the light level at the bottom of the tank then putting it in that container at the surface will significantly increase the amount of light it’s getting and may stress it out even more.

You are correct. I will bring it down. I am awaiting my glass cup to arrive from amazon so they are now in the Tupperware temporarily. Thank you

 

[vetteguy53081]

Which one that you are referring to?

it is not a sponge. It is polyps bail out. As I tried to move the hammer to the bottom of the tank (maybe too much lights) all the polyps fell off. Now I put all of them in a container and hang it inside the tank. What should I do now?

If it’s the one on the right- polyp bailout and hate to say, but they don’t reattach and /or survive
Bailout is a sign of stress, high water flow or salinity, lack of nutrients or light too bright
High phosphate and nitrate can be contributors

 

[Brett S]

You are correct. I will bring it down. I am awaiting my glass cup to arrive from amazon so they are now in the Tupperware temporarily. Thank you

I might turn the lights way down while you wait (or off if you can’t turn them down). Even a few hours of bright light like that may be fatal to the already stressed coral.

 

[Stuartmercer]

If it’s the one on the right- polyp bailout and hate to say, but they don’t reattach and /or survive
Bailout is a sign of stress, high water flow or salinity, lack of nutrients or light too bright
High phosphate and nitrate can be contributors

there are some cases where they survive and regrow into colonies.

 

[vetteguy53081]

there are some cases where they survive and regrow into colonies.

Rare. I’ve seen that happen 4 times in over 30 years

 

[BranchingHammer]

As for the lobo,it appears to be damaged in that area, and those are messenterial filaments (the stringy stuff).

 

[canadianeh]

As for the lobo,it appears to be damaged in that area, and those are messenterial filaments (the stringy stuff).

That’s part of the hammer polyps that fell down on the lobo and I think the lobo was fighting it. I removed it since then.