Hammer Disintegrated Overnight?

[-Nemo-]

I picked up a hammer nearly a week ago, which had two branchings. Yesterday both branches were open and happy and then i wake up this morning and one branch is completely missing... only the skeleton remains. What the heck happened?? Other branch seems perfectly fine.

 

[ben1987]

Euphyllia are quite prone to losing heads when first introduced to the tank. They like very little flow and are quite sensitive to light shock.

 

[-Nemo-]

No chance it'll grow back? or what? I'm quite new to Euphyllias. It's in a place in my tank the receives the least amount of flow for sure.

 

[ben1987]

Im not 100% sure, i dont think they grow back over skeleton that used to be host to one of its polyps. I think i see a duncan in that pic right? ime they seem to grow a bit like that. They either get little tiny heads starting to apear around the edges of an established one like a duncan, or the heads split up when new mouths apear.

 

[-Nemo-]

Yep, that's a duncan over there. Alright, that's a shame but I guess I should be thankful I still have the other half.
Thanks Ben

 

[ben1987]

im not 100% like...
just lost two heads of a torch for no reason once, the rest of the coral was growing fine in both ways i said above. Read its fairly common for them to lose them just after intro.
shame though...looks like a nice frag.

 

[seffieuk]

No, it wont grow back strangley enough I woke up this morning to find the same thing on my pink hammer - going to get the hacksaw out later and take the two heads off - the other head is not looking great either!

Seffie x