2 Hammers and 2 Frogspawns - weird behavior

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For the past 2 days all corals in my tank appear normal with exception of the 2 hammer and frogspawn LPS - all 4 aren't opened fully as they have been in the past. I'd say over a 50% reduction. Most weird and all other corals look 100% normal as is.

Did a full water test check and nothing out of the unusual at all.

Can't seem to figure out what would cause this or is this a normal observation that can happen from time to time? Since it hasn't in my case, this is the first for me.
 

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Seems very normal to me.
May have been touched by something, may have had a piece of food drop on it…..it may be in expel mode.

Mine do that as well.
 
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Seems very normal to me.
May have been touched by something, may have had a piece of food drop on it…..it may be in expel mode.

Mine do that as well.
Thank you - I'm 2.5 years into this hobby and this is the first observation I've had with such and I'm glad to hear that this is normal such as in your case - how many days would this typically last?

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For the past 2 days all corals in my tank appear normal with exception of the 2 hammer and frogspawn LPS - all 4 aren't opened fully as they have been in the past. I'd say over a 50% reduction. Most weird and all other corals look 100% normal as is.

Did a full water test check and nothing out of the unusual at all.

Can't seem to figure out what would cause this or is this a normal observation that can happen from time to time? Since it hasn't in my case, this is the first for me.
When I have stuff like this mysteriously appear, I run a bag of carbon for a few days.
 

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Thank you - I'm 2.5 years into this hobby and this is the first observation I've had with such and I'm glad to hear that this is normal such as in your case - how many days would this typically last?

Cheers
Depends on what is causing the retract and if it ceases, then, a day “ish” and usually back next light on cycle.

But if you’ve never had any temporary retracts in 2.5 years, then that so some cause for concern.

Sometimes my fish “bump” a head or two by error, usually not fatal. I have 1 of 16 heads doing that now, but, it will back in a day.

A clown rubbing…..a crab cleaning…And from time to time, they shrink to expel waste…..

If everybody else looks great, just watch.
 
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Things taking the turn for the worse it looks like unless I'm wrong - all 5 hammer corals heads, and 2 different frogspawns are closing up and looks like strinking. One of the frogspawn is expelling - I was looking for anything out of the ordinary in terms of parasites, etc, but absolutely nothing. I did a water change today - I don't know what else to do as ALL parameters are on point and there has been no change to any lighting or flow.

This is devastating to lose so many corals and I grew them when they were small, and to watch them disintegrate it would seem is heartbreaking.

If anyone has any suggestions what I might still try, or an explanation why this is happening to these Euphylia, that'll be great.

Thanks
 

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in my experience it happens sometimes but mine have for the most part always bounced back no issue, i had some zoas that were closed for a whole year that decided to open up randomly one day out of nowhere with no changes to the tank. sometimes corals just be weird
 
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in my experience it happens sometimes but mine have for the most part always bounced back no issue, i had some zoas that were closed for a whole year that decided to open up randomly one day out of nowhere with no changes to the tank. sometimes corals just be weird
Thanks - did you ever find out the reason in your case why it happened?
 

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Thanks - did you ever find out the reason in your case why it happened?
nope, just happens sometimes to me. not often as of now but i don’t test anything other than salinity just because it takes a ton of time/ or money and or i don’t wanna chase numbers
i’ve had much better experience keeping things simple and have had pretty good success this way
 

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