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Dactylopterus
01/25/2012, 01:47 PM
Short story I went on vacation for a week, when I came back on sunday, the hammer seemed doing well, it started to bail out in the center and now it's almost entirely out of the skeleton. Is there anything I can do?

Monday: Location for more than 8 months, noted it was detaching:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7173/6761739451_0a25ed66d5_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62412172@N07/6761739451/)
DSC03538 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62412172@N07/6761739451/) por dasalcru10 (http://www.flickr.com/people/62412172@N07/), en Flickr

Tuesday: Moved to another place,

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6761742007_306ba316d9_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62412172@N07/6761742007/)
DSC03540 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62412172@N07/6761742007/) por dasalcru10 (http://www.flickr.com/people/62412172@N07/), en Flickr

Wednesday: Cut the detached part so it doesn't pull the remaining

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6761681087_9910ba89cc_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62412172@N07/6761681087/)
DSC03543 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62412172@N07/6761681087/) por dasalcru10 (http://www.flickr.com/people/62412172@N07/), en Flickr

I already posted this in the LPS forum, http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2122911

I cut the detached side so it doesn't pull all the polyps. the detached part seems healthy, I mean no decomposed tissue or slimy secretions

What can I do to recover the detached part? Polyps are not retracted at all, they are inflated, any help will be much appreciated

Mandosh
01/25/2012, 02:19 PM
I'm guessing at some point during your vacation your parameters were off, maybe they still are? Have you tested? Low pH, alk, calcium or high phosphates might have impeded calcification or maybe chemical or physical warfare from another Euphyllia sp., bacteria infection?

I think in general, bailed-out Euphyllia have extremely-low to hopeless survival rate. I have heard stories of some regrowing skeletons though...not sure how accurate these are?

Maybe true puttiing the surviving polyps in a shallow container with some substrate and hopefully the flow will be low enough that re-calcification can occur.

cjk76
01/25/2012, 03:59 PM
I read another thread where they determined this was a bacterial/fungal infection. Don't remember what site it was on. Maybe add the fallen stuff to crushed coral to give a base to grow off of? Good luck!

sponger0
01/26/2012, 07:57 AM
Do the tentacles look like they are browning out? Euphillia can get a brown slime disease. Cant remember what its called