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When will I learn to keep my hands out of the reef! My recent wall hammer purchase (3 days ago) was xpanding but not completely I think because of the flow it was getting. So i decided to try and do final placement and was cutting away some of the dead skeleton and it accidentally split up and I ended up fragging the colony into a big piece and a small frag.

It is not a clean cut and I do not have a saw to make one so what should I do? Im thinking of running to the lfs to pick up some iodine solution and dipping and hopefully just end up with 2 colonies

 

LFS as revive and seachem reef deep

 

Most Euphyllia (hammers especially, IME) are pretty hardy. I would just put it in a lower-flow are and leave it alone for a couple days, you'll probably end up with two colonies.

 

I always heard the wall variety are a little more difficult than the branching. I already ran to the store to get the coral iodine dip and am dipping it regular strength as a precaution, no brown jelly for me!

You say low flow, wouldnt I want high to help take any dying tissue away from the colony?

 

I've heard that as well, but my wall hammer wouldn't die even when I tried to kill it . He survived temperature swings, ATO failure and a 2 week vacation under the care of my mother. I've never had the branching variety though, so I guess I can't really compare.

Anyway, the dip probably won't hurt.

I say low flow because higher flow will probably just stress it more, and it's already under enough stress from the injury. Assuming your water parameters are decent, you probably won't see that much die off, anyway.

 

Man you reall did try to kill it didnt you!! I hope mine is as hardy. My parameters are all decent SG 1.026 CA 400 Alk 8 Mag 1600 ammonia and nitrite 0 nitrate 0-5


Well after dipping and placing back in the reef heres the fine work. I placed em kind of close for now we will see what it looks like when they expand, hopefully it will create a neat multi-layered look

 

Well couple hours later still doesnt look all that great. Better than the picture, has some expansion. Hopefully it expands more tomorrow though

 

If it's showing any improvement at all then you're on the right track , IMO

Let us know how it looks tomorrow.

 

Well after 24 hours it doesnt look great but it does look better. It did not expand too much yesterday but did have some expansion. Def no death or brown jelly though so I am happy with that.

The flow might be a little too much, if it doesnt show much improvment by monday I will move it.

 

I hope it comes back nice for you....that placement would look really cool....