Hammer coral healthy?

[Reef_at_Sea]

Hello,

Is this small hammer coral looking healthy? I have it for about 2 days now.

My parameters are all on point except for my alk wich is 6.5 (raising it slowly now with baking soda)

The thing i’m worried about is lighting..

 

[VintageReefer]

Looks healthy to me
Yea I agree to raise alk - above 8
Careful as this increase may cause a calcium drop

 

[Reef_at_Sea]

Looks healthy to me
Yea I agree to raise alk - above 8
Careful as this increase may cause a calcium drop

Indeed moving it to 8 slowly, monitoring everything

 

[VintageReefer]

Indeed moving it to 8 slowly, monitoring everything

How slowly?

 

[Reef_at_Sea]

How slowly?

I got a full syringe & i do 3 small doses a day over 3-4 days.

 

[Dburr1014]

Hello,

Is this small hammer coral looking healthy? I have it for about 2 days now.

My parameters are all on point except for my alk wich is 6.5 (raising it slowly now with baking soda)

The thing i’m worried about is lighting..

I good indicator of health is the flesh band around the head. Unfortunately the pic does not show it.
A real healthy specimen will have a band up to 1.5", I haven't seen any much longer than that personally on a hammer.
When/If the band receeds back up to the corallite of may be in trouble or not generally healthy.

 

[Reef_at_Sea]

I good indicator of health is the flesh band around the head. Unfortunately the pic does not show it.
A real healthy specimen will have a band up to 1.5", I haven't seen any much longer than that personally on a hammer.
When/If the band receeds back up to the corallite of may be in trouble or not generally healthy.

Could it be the fact that it is new? I’m hiring a par meter

 

[Dburr1014]

Could it be the fact that it is new? I’m hiring a par meter

I mean that I can't see the flesh band in the pic. Whether or not it's there I have no idea. I would have to see a side shot to know if it's there or not.

 

[ryanjohn1]

From a distance looks fine

 

[Reef_at_Sea]

I mean that I can't see the flesh band in the pic. Whether or not it's there I have no idea. I would have to see a side shot to know if it's there or not.

Oh, i will do that when i get home

 

[Reef_at_Sea]

I mean that I can't see the flesh band in the pic. Whether or not it's there I have no idea. I would have to see a side shot to know if it's there or not.

 

[VintageReefer]

It looks like there’s one that goes halfway down the stalk. If that’s what I’m seeing that’s a good thing especially in a smaller frag

This guy is a small frag and it has a small flesh band. I think it’s still recovering from fragging

Other hammers in my system are larger and thus have larger bands. You will want to look every now and then as this is an indicator of health.

 

[Reef_at_Sea]

i think there is yes.

 

[BudgetR33f]

My hammer looked like that when i first added to my tank as well. It should get better about after a week if you feel like your doing nothing wrong. Also try to give less direct flow if you can and maybe try lowering light if it still looks bad

 

[Reef_at_Sea]

My hammer looked like that when i first added to my tank as well. It should get better about after a week if you feel like your doing nothing wrong. Also try to give less direct flow if you can and maybe try lowering light if it still looks bad

For some reason it still doesn't look like that, altough it has its fleshband, so it looks happy.
My Frogspawn that stands behind it on the same level is waaaayy more open & looks insanely good.