Well, I thought I was doing alright and I came back from camping a bit early to find my hammer isn’t doing as well as I thought.
We got it June 12 and I only just glued it on the 4th of July.
We moved it a couple times staying within the lower third and found that it looked fullest when it was where we placed it.
Well today, its polyps are way retracted and skeleton is in full view…don’t recall nor have a picture from the 10th when I did tank work.
I worked on getting the alk from a suspected bad batch of salt and got it up from low 6 up to 8.5 over the course of 2 weeks or so. We left for 3 days and it was 8.5 when we left and still at 8 when I tested today.
Slow dosing back to 8.5 to see if she’s grumpy.
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@Ruester
20d
Pull that hammer out slowly and smell that thing. If it smells like asshole it’s brown jelly. Either trash it or play games with it and google in another qt tank. Watch your other corrals if so. Doesn’t look like it from the pics but better safe than sorry!
@EpiCheeseTime
20d
Unfortunately it’s glued and would be a pain to dismantle. I lessened light and dosed a bit of alk to get back up after the couple days gone
@EpiCheeseTime
19d
I did manage to get it off the rock work, guess the glue didn’t set or have enough bite. Smelled and it’s fine, at least compare to my toddlers farts recently. I did see some Mesenterial Filaments I think, none looked to have polyps with it. Skeleton is also at the same height as I saw yesterday. With this stress, hold off on the watcher change this week? All parameters are within bounds (minus alk on the low end)
@Ruester
18d
I’d continue water changes personally. But there’s no one way in this hobby.
@CaelisTide
20d
Your hammer suffered stress from frequent relocation plus huge alkalinity fluctuation. It’s still in its adaptation period after mounting. Don’t adjust Alk back to 8.5 immediately, just keep everything stable at 8.0 for days, and leave it alone without moving. Good luck!
@GGonzo
16d
The algae is probably bothering it, I would mix 50/50 hydrogen peroxide with tank water and gently scrub the base (don’t touch the top flesh) to kill the algae. Try do see if you can gently scrub off the decaying part on the skeleton and then give it an iodine dip at put it in a QT tank in case it’s brown jelly disease.
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Hope she perks up 🤞!