Are hammers supposed to do this?

[Marc2952]

I woke up today to see this neon hammer detaching from its base has anyone seen this? Do they do that when unhappy?

 

[Crabs McJones]

Looks like polyp bailout. It's not happy about something. Could be a water parameter, too much flow ect..

 

[ahiggins]

Agreed with crabby. I’ve never personally seen it but I’ve seen polyp bail out in pictures and it looks to be doing it. It takes a lot of effort and energy to get off his base, it won’t do it unless super stressed. What’s your parameters?

 

[vetteguy53081]

It is irritated.
Possible causes:
High salinity
Too much water flow
inadequate lighting
Tank occupant such as clownfish annoying it
High calcium

My suspect is salinity. . . but ultimately water quality related.

 

[Marc2952]

Agreed with crabby. I’ve never personally seen it but I’ve seen polyp bail out in pictures and it looks to be doing it. It takes a lot of effort and energy to get off his base, it won’t do it unless super stressed. What’s your parameters?

Ahhh that would make sense then since i have been losing a ton of corals due to a cyano and dino outbreak. Phosphates has stayed at a consistent 0 even while dosing 50ml of it a day. Curremt parwmeters are
Alk: 8.1
Cal:480
Mg:1400
Nitrate: 2-3
Salinity 1.025
Everything has been pretty stable apart from the dinos and cyano covering all my corals and making even zoas melting. I did have an issue with copper being readable on my hanna checker, but even after adding cuprisorb and polyfilter it didnt drop to 0. Checked the whole tank and theres no corrosion.