Ohhh. I was talking about my hammer coral LOL my bad. My acan I figured out. I have it in the back of the tank. It’s very happy now!! It’s my hammer coral I’m struggling withMight be placement then maybe try putting on sand bed or bottom of the tank in a corner or somewhat of a shadow area. This is where mine is at compared to lighting and other corals basically by itself on the barebottom half of my split frag tank.
I would say as long as it's not causing your water parameters to change or causing algae outbreaks then you should be fine.
Here’s the goniopora. I really can’t believe it. No one wonder someone once told me to NEVER THROW A CORAL OUT. I will never ever thrown one out again. This literally was just stone and now here it is. Look at the heads bulging out
Great looking tank. That hammer is gorgeous. @fishgirljockey what lights do you have?
I have both of my hammers up on the rock on the left. Has med light and flow and both seem to love it
That is a good looking tank. Lots of great colors. I use the coralife ones. It was the first lights I got when I setup my tank. I’ve had them for about 6 months now. I was going to upgrade them this weekend. I am going to get the REEFI UNO 2.0 PRO. The coralife isn’t bad, but I’m trying to get the best color and this doesn’t do the trick. If it had a more powerful PAR, I’d keep it cause I do like them. For everything else it’s great. And the modes are great. Nice light. I’m so so so close to coralline algea too. I’m in the light green stage, which is super annoying lol but I’m starting to see some pink spots in differnt areas! My frag that has the Jack-o-latern has huge spots of the coralline that never use to be there! That made my day lol noticed it the other day. So I know my lights can’t be horrible. I just need better ones
Thank you! Tank is all LPS and softies right now but wanting to add some SPS soon, I need another powerhead! Also, I've been running 2 Reefbreaders NANO LEDs on my 40 breeder, and they have been great! Thats what is in that pic but i use krakenreef viewing glasses as a lens.
Yeah my hammer isn't doing well. No idea what to do. My parameters are perfect. All the corals are doing so dang well. For some reason, the hammer just isn't fluffing up, slightly receded. I even had a goniopora that I thought was dead. It was just rubble and its unreal that its growing back. No wonder someone told me to never throw away coral. He was so right. It just looked like a rock but I noticed when I put the blue light on, it had areas that had neon green which meant that something was still alive. it was very subtle too, the neon green. It was outlined circles in each hole of the rubble, so I just left it and never touched it or moved it. Now, it is poking out of the indents of the rubble! Its really insane lol Really remarkable (im sorry if I told you this story already. I forgot if I did LOL). Anyway, that just means I know my water is more than perfect. I tried a spot with less flow and not near anything; he didn't do well. I moved him to another place with a lot of flow (I read on some post that some hammers like a lot of flow and some don't). I tried that for 2-3 weeks and still nothing. When I move him, I leave him for a good 2-3 weeks, sometimes more if it seems like he might actually be doing better. Now I literally just put him on a corner rack I have until I figure out what his deal is. I was considering putting him in the hospital tank. Maybe some different water and lightening will make a difference? Im not sure. Im really out of ideas for the hammer. Im wondering if its my light. I know the coralife isn't the greatest, but its also really not bad. All my corals have done super well with it. Maybe he needs more PAR? If you have any ideas, please let me know!!!
So I moved the hammer higher up. I thought maybe he wasn't getting enough PAR since the light I have doesn't have a high PAR. So I placed him high up, not mid but high up. He's maybe 10 inches from the light, maybe less. and I put him on top of a rock that has a ton of flow. He's puffed up now!! Someone said to try to give him more light and a ton of flow, that there are some that light a lot of flow. So I tried that and he seems much more happier. Hopefully his tentacles come out more. Its not great but I see a difference already. Praying!
