Hammer coral bleaching????

[Brody Flannery]

What is happening to my hammer coral back polyps are not open and look to be bleaching?? there is little strings coming off them also.

 

[bryanfuel1]

What are your water parameters, light, how old is the tank and when did you add the coral?

 

[Brody Flannery]

ammonia is a bit high at 1ppm nitrite 0 nitrate 20 calcium 415

What are your water parameters, light, how old is the tank and when did you add the coral?

 

[Shrooms]

How about salinity and alkalinity?

 

[Brody Flannery]

ammonia is a bit high at 1ppm nitrite 0 nitrate 20 calcium 415

How about salinity and alkalinity?

salinity is 1.023 i I am still waiting on my alk sailfert test to come in says they're out for delivery right now

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Still need lots of info,,,, how old is the tank, when did you add this coral, what type of water you using, what type of light, what for flow, why is salinity that low, why do you have ammonia in the tank, do you have other corals how are they doing????? There's a few red flags here. It kind of seems like you and the tank might not be ready for corals just yet....

 

[Badger_Reefer]

I think your tank is not completely cycled !!! Have you done a water change after Completing cycle ???

 

[Brody Flannery]

Still need lots of info,,,, how old is the tank, when did you add this coral, what type of water you using, what type of light, what for flow, why is salinity that low, why do you have ammonia in the tank, do you have other corals how are they doing????? It kind of seems like

Still need lots of info,,,, how old is the tank, when did you add this coral, what type of water you using, what type of light, what for flow, why is salinity that low, why do you have ammonia in the tank, do you have other corals how are they doing????? It kind of seems like you and the tank might not be ready for corals just yet....

you and the tank might not be ready for corals just yet....to w

Still need lots of info,,,, how old is the tank, when did you add this coral, what type of water you using, what type of light, what for flow, why is salinity that low, why do you have ammonia in the tank, do you have other corals how are they doing????? It kind of seems like you and the tank might not be ready for corals just yet....

3 months ro water fluval sea light other coral are all fine duncan, gsp, xenia, frogspawn

3 months to water

 

[Brody Flannery]

Still need lots of info,,,, how old is the tank, when did you add this coral, what type of water you using, what type of light, what for flow, why is salinity that low, why do you have ammonia in the tank, do you have other corals how are they doing????? There's a few red flags here. It kind of seems like you and the tank might not be ready for corals just yet....

i had a bacteria bloom i use a power head

 

[Badger_Reefer]

It will require 6 months to achieve stability of Ph and dKH. Tank maturation is needed i guess

 

[Brody Flannery]

It will require 6 months to achieve stability of Ph and dKH. Tank maturation is needed i guess

So what do you think is causing it to bleach? or is it bleaching?

 

[Brody Flannery]

So what do you think is causing it to bleach? or is it bleaching?

this lowkey taught me i need to take it slow prolly gonna wait a while to add lps

 

[Badger_Reefer]

Check out temperature , PH and nitrate , phosphate

 

[Brody Flannery]

Check out temperature , PH and nitrate , phosphate

OK I will but in the meantime what do you think could possibly be causing it

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

If you have other corals doing well, especially if you say you have a frogspawn doing well, then I would take a guess that the hammer is in a poor location..... if all others doing ok and only one new coral only 3 days in your tank doing poorly, I would try a different placement..... perhaps closer to where the frogspawn is.

 

[Brody Flannery]

If you have other corals doing well, especially if you say you have a frogspawn doing well, then I would take a guess that the hammer is in a poor location..... if all others doing ok and only one new coral only 3 days in your tank doing poorly, I would try a different placement..... perhaps closer to where the frogspawn is.

i had him by the frogspawn but lower should i raise his his spot in the picture it kinda looks like he's bleaching I don't know what's wrong with them in the picture

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

It could be light or flow, it could be that your parameters or something is very different than where it came from, sometimes that happens too and the coral just can't acclimate. Unfortunately we don't know why corals die, we can only offer our best guess. Hope it improves for you, or hope someone more knowledgeable is able to help, good luck

 

[Brody Flannery]

It could be light or flow, it could be that your parameters or something is very different than where it came from, sometimes that happens too and the coral just can't acclimate. Unfortunately we don't know why corals die, we can only offer our best guess. Hope it improves for you, good luck

okay thank you one last question if one of the polyps die on the 4 head polyp what do i do?

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

okay thank you one last question if one of the polyps die on the 4 head polyp what do i do?

nothing, it will be fine if one or more polyps die. Many polyps have died on my hammer over the years, it just keeps growing. As long as one polyp remains, it can regrow a colony.

 

[Brody Flannery]

nothing, it will be fine if one or more polyps die. Many polyps have died on my hammer over the years, it just keeps growing. As long as one polyp remains, it can regrow a colony.

quick update i toke it out to dip it again and one of the heads lost almost all its polyps and only has like 3 hanging on by a thread