Hammer Coral Help

[SteveOhh]

A few weeks back I fragged my hammer coral by breaking about a 1" piece off of it. The frag is doing great, but the mother colony has slowly been dying ever since. It does great on the opposite end of the where the frag was cut, but it's dying slowly on the cut end.

Pic from 2 weeks ago...................

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Whoad_Up/042506005.jpg

Pics from 5 minutes ago........... :eek2:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Whoad_Up/P5080054.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/Whoad_Up/P5080053.jpg

Please help peeps!!!! This corals look soooooooooo good when it's healthy!!!!

Steve :D

[Newreeflady]

Oh, man, sorry to see that. *bump* for ya. . .

[Aescleah]

have you tried to stand it up wedge it up in some rocks or something. i know thats not the most spiffy advice someone can give you but hey i doubt it can hurt


Ashley

[Sk8r]

I have wondered on some of these non-branching lps whether applying superglue along the cut might protect it. I have observed that bristleworms and dusters and other things get in via the exposed inner structure, and while they aren't particularly harmful under normal circumstances, I'm suspicious they're an irritant. I recall seeing a similar coral pop its skeleton, and the interior was an absolute heaving mass of bristleworms---whether there because the hammer was already in trouble, or a flywheel effect. I know theorizing doesn't help much here, but applying glue to try to seal that chamber might give it some relief, and that's only guesswork.

[pham411]

did something eat it?

[marie]

Is the tissue turning to brown jelly and going fast? If so I would dip it in a lugols solution