Did my zoa palytoxin kill my hammer??

t1a1c1h · 01/15/2016, 11:30 AM

Went away for a couple of days this week and came home to find a dead and completely disintegrated (into stringy slime/mucus) hammer coral. On taking it out of the tank we noticed a chunk of zoa polyp (2 polyps somehow detached from the main colony) on the hammer skeleton.... could it be that it was palytoxin poisoning that killed the hammer???? Water parameters are perfect, hammer had been happy under new lights and in moderate flow and seemed to be doing so well!! Any thoughts?

cloak · 01/15/2016, 12:13 PM

I doubt it was the polyps. You might want to look into Brown Jelly Disease/Syndrome though. See if anything sounds or looks familiar. GL.

organism · 01/17/2016, 06:21 PM

+1 to brown jelly, palytoxin is a neurotoxin that affects things with central nervous systems like fish and people.

accordsirh22 · 01/23/2016, 02:10 AM

as they said, no

01/15/2016, 11:30 AM	#1
t1a1c1h Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Birmingham Posts: 31	Did my zoa palytoxin kill my hammer?? Went away for a couple of days this week and came home to find a dead and completely disintegrated (into stringy slime/mucus) hammer coral. On taking it out of the tank we noticed a chunk of zoa polyp (2 polyps somehow detached from the main colony) on the hammer skeleton.... could it be that it was palytoxin poisoning that killed the hammer???? Water parameters are perfect, hammer had been happy under new lights and in moderate flow and seemed to be doing so well!! Any thoughts?

01/17/2016, 06:21 PM	#3
organism code monkey Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: south bay Posts: 6,223	+1 to brown jelly, palytoxin is a neurotoxin that affects things with central nervous systems like fish and people. __________________ I don't always grow frags... but when I do, I prefer Dos Acros

01/15/2016, 12:13 PM	#2
cloak Moved On Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Stockton, CA Posts: 14,854	I doubt it was the polyps. You might want to look into Brown Jelly Disease/Syndrome though. See if anything sounds or looks familiar. GL.

01/23/2016, 02:10 AM	#4
accordsirh22 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Clarksville, TN Posts: 817	as they said, no