hammer coral help

[dstyling]

i bought a hammer coral about 2 weeks ago and its about 4 inches long (skeleton part of it) i would say within the last 2 days 1/8 to 1/4 inch is not there anymore...as if it died off or completely went into the skelton part of it...is there anything i can do to try to nurture it back or is it completely dying off?...the rest of it during the day is find they are about and 1 inch out and swaying...just that little bit on the end that i am worried about
any comments or opinions would be greatly appreciated

 

[dstyling]

can anyone help or opinion??

 

[mscarpena]

As long as the tissue is not disinigrating and like mucusing off it is not dying and it should be ok. Post pics of what you are talking about

 

[dragonfly2962]

What kind of lighting, where do you have it placed and are you feeding it, what is your calcium levels at, ph levels phophates, nitrates, nitrites? Here is a pic of mine. I have had him for about a month now and he is growing nicely. I feed him Roti Feast from Reef nutririon. spcificaly for hard corals. I am no pro but I hope this helps a bit. oh yes and good water flow.
Diane

 

[dreamer44]

I thought, and I now think im wrong....but shouldnt we be feeding hammer corals, cyclopeez?
Please let me know what to feed....for this and the zoa's,
thanks,
Lori

 

[jerthunter]

Well if the tentacles are out that is a good sign. I've seen a torch coral die and basically the tentacles just melted away and left the skeleton piece. As far as its recovery I would say put it in a low flow area to let it heal.
As far as feeding, I've never been able to get mine to actually ate anything that I could see. I'm sure it does get some of the floating leftovers but I wouldn't spend the time trying to feed it directly, or the zoas for that matter. About the only coral I have that eats what I spot feed it is my sun coral because it needs the food for survival.