Hammer coral problem

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  1. rossco838

    rossco838 Astrea Snail

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    I have this hammer coral and for the last week it has not extended fully, today it looks like this. I just started keeping corals so I'm unsure what to do. All other corals are fine, sps included. Parameters are n03-0-2ppm P04-.03Mag-1350Alk-11dkhCalcium-440
     

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  3. Biocube

    Biocube Giant Squid

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    Mine always took a while to fully open when introduced into my tank.

    Maybe it needs more time.
     
  4. diverdan

    diverdan Bangghai Cardinal

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    You didn't mention flow rate. My hammers like a little bit of flow. Not direct just some movement.
     
  5. PghSteeler

    PghSteeler Tassled File Fish

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    I have added a wall frogspawn, 2 different branching frogspawns, a branching hammer, and a wall hammer that I accidently fragged when placing. All 5 looked amazing and huge in the store and took a solid week to look half as good in my tank. For the first month or so they seem to be very unpredicable where they open slowly with the lights, stay open to varying fullnesses during the day, and then close before the lights go out for the night. After about a month they remain fully open all day and look amazing and only retract partially at night.

    Basically what Im saying is I think frogspawns and hammers just take a really long time to fully acclimate to a new tank and new conditions. Just be patient and monitor
     
  6. rossco838

    rossco838 Astrea Snail

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    I've had the coral for about 3 weeks. It has a koralia 550 on a smart wave on the opposite end of the tank. The coral is not in a lot of flow by any means
    The tank is a 3 foot 65 gallon
     
  7. rossco838

    rossco838 Astrea Snail

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    All of my other euphyilla are doing well i have a branching frogspawn, bubble and a torch and they are fine.
     
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  9. rossco838

    rossco838 Astrea Snail

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    Just looked at it again since I took those pictures 5 hours ago and it now looks like this.
     

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  10. ontop27

    ontop27 Ritteri Anemone

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    Only one 550 on that big of a tank
     
  11. PghSteeler

    PghSteeler Tassled File Fish

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    Coral looks deflated but I ldont see any signs of disease in the picture. It seems hammers are even more picky than others like frogspawn and bubble in there lighting and flow conditions.
    Does it ever infate normally or is that the best its looked?
     
  12. rossco838

    rossco838 Astrea Snail

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    Mag 9 return and a koralia 750 on the opposite side.. The 550 will be another 750 once I get a new cover... It is normally "inflated"