Should I be concerned about branching hammer coral appearance

drewcrew22
Josh
@drewcrew22 · 2 weeks ago

Bought some branching hammers however this is what they look like. Should I be concerned or is this normal

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Give them a day or two.

Thanks

Those are dead 😕 Not normal

My condolences 😕 all you got left is just the skeleton.

Happened to me once it’s gone…

Well damn that sucks.

You need to remove it carefully, or brown jelly will be all over your corals

It couldn be brown jelly .d remove it without spreading the dead tissues it will infected other if early stages dip in hydrogen peroxide 20 ml per 1 gallon for 5 mints

Yup. Def turn off all flow and carefully remove those. I lost thousands of dollars in corals from purchasing online and corals did that exact thing and bjd wiped out all of my wall hammers and torches. I’ll only buy from local stores now.

So what should I look out for on my other corals in case they infected other corals

Thanks guys. I will get them removed asap

So it’s not good keeping a dead coral skeleton in the tank?

They are dead from BJD. Those need to be tossed out before they infect the rest of your LPS with BJD. Rip

Dead

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