Hi everyone,
Had this hammer for ~5 months. The last two weeks its been sorta closed up and slowly looks like its getting worse. Its been shedding a few tentacles and the flesh has been slowly receding. Its right at the point where the flesh would separate for the split, but im not sure if it should look this bad.
Params:
Alk 8
Mag 1280
Phosphates highish at .07 last week
Nitrates 0
Having an issue with my nitrates right now for sure. Everything else is doing well. Birdsnest and one monticap have lost some color over the last two weeks which im guessing is due to low nitrates. No matter how much stuff i add, i cant get them up, so i ordered some liquid nitrates to be here this week to get them back in line. Anyways, my questions are pretty much:
Is it just splitting and im paranoid?
Would low nitrates cause this?
Could it potentially be something bacterial, and if so should I pull it and do an iodine dip?
Also its in an area with pretty low flow. Could that potentially be a contributing factor?
Sorry for the longwinded post. Thanks everyone!
Blue line on the hammer shows where the flesh was 2 weeks ago.
Had this hammer for ~5 months. The last two weeks its been sorta closed up and slowly looks like its getting worse. Its been shedding a few tentacles and the flesh has been slowly receding. Its right at the point where the flesh would separate for the split, but im not sure if it should look this bad.
Params:
Alk 8
Mag 1280
Phosphates highish at .07 last week
Nitrates 0
Having an issue with my nitrates right now for sure. Everything else is doing well. Birdsnest and one monticap have lost some color over the last two weeks which im guessing is due to low nitrates. No matter how much stuff i add, i cant get them up, so i ordered some liquid nitrates to be here this week to get them back in line. Anyways, my questions are pretty much:
Is it just splitting and im paranoid?
Would low nitrates cause this?
Could it potentially be something bacterial, and if so should I pull it and do an iodine dip?
Also its in an area with pretty low flow. Could that potentially be a contributing factor?
Sorry for the longwinded post. Thanks everyone!
Blue line on the hammer shows where the flesh was 2 weeks ago.