Branching Hammer Questions

[Injoynit]

I purchased a hammer about a week ago and it has not expanded very much.
I have WAV powerheads on back of 200gal tank bouncing off front and sides of tank. (set between 1 and 6% power)
I have ATI Hydra 26 HDs' (4)
Tanks is about 4 months old with some live rock and most dry rock with live 2 inch sandbed.
Parameters for water are:
Alk 7.84 (Looking to up this)
Ca 400
Mg 1400
PO4/PO3 Undetectable
PH 8.02
Temp 76-77
Salinity 32.95 ppt or 1.0248 sg
Now this is what he looks like:

(Sorry about poor pic)
It is supposed to look like my icon on this forum.
Any ideas or is it fine and I should wait more or move it?

 

[Crabs McJones]

I purchased a hammer about a week ago and it has not expanded very much.
I have WAV powerheads on back of 200gal tank bouncing off front and sides of tank. (set between 1 and 6% power)
I have ATI Hydra 26 HDs' (4)
Tanks is about 4 months old with some live rock and most dry rock with live 2 inch sandbed.
Parameters for water are:
Alk 7.84 (Looking to up this)
Ca 400
Mg 1400
PO4/PO3 Undetectable
PH 8.02
Temp 76-77
Salinity 32.95 ppt or 1.0248 sg
Now this is what he looks like:

(Sorry about poor pic)
It is supposed to look like my icon on this forum.
Any ideas or is it fine and I should wait more or move it?

What is your lighting schedule and how high do you have the lights ramp up every day? Also how much flow is actually hitting the hammer? They tend to like low flow low light. It could still be adjusting to your system. When I first got my hammer in my new take it took about two weeks for it to fully open

 

[Injoynit]

What is your lighting schedule and how high do you have the lights ramp up every day? Also how much flow is actually hitting the hammer? They tend to like low flow low light. It could still be adjusting to your system. When I first got my hammer in my new take it took about two weeks for it to fully open

Here is the lighting schedule.
Very few places in the tank does not have flow. I have it in an alcove just to temper any high flow that occurs.
WAV schedule below:


Coral still looks like the previous picture.

 

[Zack K]

PO4/PO3 Undetectable
?

PO4 (Phosphates)
PO3? Or NO3 (Nitrates)

Either way, Euphyillia (Frogspawn, Hammer Torches, Duncan’s, Elegance) all like nutrients in the water. Most of the time this comes in the water chemistry. I have found, over all the Euphyillia I have kept, that they do not las long in a Ultra Low Nutrient System (ULNS). Which is why you are running currently. If I were in your shoes, I would bring the numbers up just a little bit by either feeding heavier, taking your nutrient exporting offline (Biopellets, Carbon dosing) or start dosing. I have found Euphyillia like number in the ball park of 10ppm NO3 and .1ppm PO4.

-Zack, who can’t figure out alkalinity.

 

[Injoynit]

PO4 (Phosphates)
PO3? Or NO3 (Nitrates)

Either way, Euphyillia (Frogspawn, Hammer Torches, Duncan’s, Elegance) all like nutrients in the water. Most of the time this comes in the water chemistry. I have found, over all the Euphyillia I have kept, that they do not las long in a Ultra Low Nutrient System (ULNS). Which is why you are running currently. If I were in your shoes, I would bring the numbers up just a little bit by either feeding heavier, taking your nutrient exporting offline (Biopellets, Carbon dosing) or start dosing. I have found Euphyillia like number in the ball park of 10ppm NO3 and .1ppm PO4.

-Zack, who can’t figure out alkalinity.

Yeah, was worried about that. I have increased the feeding to help with that. We'll see what happens.
Thanks all for the feedback.

 

[Apotack]

My hammer is at the top of my tank and gets blasted by leds. It’s huge and keeps growing. Always have frags for sale

 

[Paleozoic_reefer]

I have my euphyllia garden about 1/2 way up in my tank (24in tall) and directly under the light.. they seem to do better the higher light, medium flow, and “dirtier” water in my tank.