Blue Anchora hammer melting away

[Logzor]

I was moving some rock around and I think this piece got beat up a little bit. It is about 5 inches long, has always been pretty healthy. Now it is melting away very rapidly, nearly half the coral is gone.

Should I toss it out? Will it spread?

The goo coming off is just white colored.

I have 5 other large frogspawns, hammers, and torches, all doing very well. All montis/acros are doing great.

[catfisher]

pics?

[Kigs]

Euphyllias, from my experience, are sensitive to physical damage to their exoskeleton. Cut away all heads that are melting away to prevent it from spreading and move the remaining piece to a low-med flow area.

[Logzor]

Its already melted all away. Since it was an anchor type coral I could not really cut off the bad part, not to mention it was super thick, I would have needed a wet saw.

Sucks that I lost it, ive never seen a blue on like it.

[JAMDivers]

Too weird! I just asked if anyone had pics of a blue hammer coral about 2 threads up! Sorry to hear yours did not make it, but is there any chance you have a picture of it you could post for reference?

I saw one once in one of my coral books that was a deep dark blue, but have never seen another one.

Sorry again about your lost, I'm sure it was an exquisite piece.
JAM

[Logzor]

Here is a pic of it, doesnt show the blue as well as it could, though.

http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs30/i/2008/057/c/d/Blue_Hammer_by_Logzor.jpg

[JAMDivers]

Thanks for posting, it looked like a cool piece. Sorry again for your loss.

JAM