Hammer Coral not opening fully

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My hammer would open fully. However, in the past 4 days it hasnt really been opening fully, only opening partially. Im not sure what I should do and if there is an issue.

Salinity: 1.025
Alk: 11 dkh
Temp: 81
 

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Your alk is a little high unless that’s your “normal” and the hammer has been in there and used to it. About a month or two would be the mark I shoot for when troubleshooting.
Does your temp usually get that high?
Another thing that really affects my hammers/frogspawn is the amount of white/red/green in the light spectrum. I’ve noticed that when my red and green turn off for the day, they shrink up a little. When my white intensity goes down they also shrink up a little.
Pics will help
 
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Your alk is a little high unless that’s your “normal” and the hammer has been in there and used to it. About a month or two would be the mark I shoot for when troubleshooting.
Does your temp usually get that high?
Another thing that really affects my hammers/frogspawn is the amount of white/red/green in the light spectrum. I’ve noticed that when my red and green turn off for the day, they shrink up a little. When my white intensity goes down they also shrink up a little.
Pics will help
I recently added fans so the temperature has changed slightly.
 
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Your alk is a little high unless that’s your “normal” and the hammer has been in there and used to it. About a month or two would be the mark I shoot for when troubleshooting.
Does your temp usually get that high?
Another thing that really affects my hammers/frogspawn is the amount of white/red/green in the light spectrum. I’ve noticed that when my red and green turn off for the day, they shrink up a little. When my white intensity goes down they also shrink up a little.
Pics will help
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hi! how is flow? smaller torches don't like to be blasted around. how long has it been in your tank? as long as you don't see tissue loss, it could take a few weeks or longer to acclimate.
 
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hi! how is flow? smaller torches don't like to be blasted around. how long has it been in your tank? as long as you don't see tissue loss, it could take a few weeks or longer to acclimate.
its been in the tank for about a month, the flow is a bit high as its a nano tank
 

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