Causes of Hammer death

[RaymondL]

One of my branching hammer is showing a lot of skeleton and retraction for no apparent reason when all other corals and other hammer is doing absolutely fine. I tried moving it to a different area with less flow, more or less light, but sad to say I think this hammer is a done I can't think of any reason why - there's nothing eating away at it in the form of any sort of pest and the water parameters appears fine:

dkh: 8.3
Ph:8.3
Salinity: 1.026
Mg: 1400
Ca:435
Nitrates: 3.2ppm
PO4: 0.03ppm

Maybe this hammer had health issues when I first bought it, I don't know -I've had it for a month now, and just recently it started to go downhill.

 

[LordofCinder]

How old is the tank?
Although the parameters look good now, any large change would have drastic affect.
What kind of lighting do you have? What kind of flow?
Whats in the tank? (some things eat corals)
What is the water source? (rodi, tap, LFS?)
How do the other corals look?
Is there a lot of algae in the tank?
Is there any flesh left? Can you show a pic?

If you've had it for a month, its hard to believe it had issue's before, it would have healed in a month if you have a good tank.

If you can provide a lot more info, it will help the folks to help you.

 

[mtraylor]

did you dip it?

 

[RaymondL]

How old is the tank?
Although the parameters look good now, any large change would have drastic affect.
What kind of lighting do you have? What kind of flow?
Whats in the tank? (some things eat corals)
What is the water source? (rodi, tap, LFS?)
How do the other corals look?
Is there a lot of algae in the tank?
Is there any flesh left? Can you show a pic?

If you've had it for a month, its hard to believe it had issue's before, it would have healed in a month if you have a good tank.

If you can provide a lot more info, it will help the folks to help you.

Tank is 7 months old. Flow is controlled with DC wavemaker and I have it optimized in a way that provides low/moderate flow where needed. I only have a pair of clowns at the moment, with a combination of other hammers, frogspawns, torches and zoas - the hammer is not touching any of the other corals. All other corals are healthy and have had much growth.

Water is RODI 4 stage, just a bit of green film algae on the rocks, and nothing else. There is some flesh left yes...here's the picture from today:

 

[Graemesreef]

There's a ton of maricultured euphyllia coming in through Cali that's being busted up and shipped out that just don't adjust to the home aquarium. Personally I wouldn't purchase one these days without some sort of aquaculture pedigree. They can survive a month before starving to death.