Need Suggestions....

[michnstev]

I have a hammer that is slowly dying off. When we got it, it had a corner that the skeleton was exposed. Each day more and more of it is dead. It is starting to make my ammonia go up, so yesterday I blew off all the parts of it that were dead. This morning, there is a small area that has died off again. My water is ok, the number are starting to change since it was decaying in the tank. Nitrates-20, Nitrites-0, Amm-.25, Alk-norm, Ph-8.2, Ca-550, Sal-34, SG-1.026. I'll try to attach a pic. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Michelle

[cclayton]

I've taken a drimmel and cut off the dead area just at the edge of the remaining meat. I've also treated the dead/ live edge with iodine, but I'm not sure it does any good.

I'd love to hear other suggestions. We're always getting ridge corals in that are damaged.

[Twitterbait]

that is a start. get some lugols solution and do a dip but in the end we need to know why. what kind of lights do you have on the tank?

[michnstev]

I have it at the top of the tank. I have 4 - 95w VHOs (2 white & 2 50/50 actinic) I did a 10% water change last weekend. Do you think I should do another??

[Twitterbait]

drop it to the bottom in the sand and try some target feeding for starters. do mysis or cyclopeeze.

[wharyat]

Do some searches on "brown jelly disease."

With enough flow, food and light; you might be able to bring it back. Iodine treatments will usually stop further "decay."

One the plagues of a flabello-meandroid coral.