Hi,
Last month I bought a very large green hammer colony. Since then, it’s tissue has been slowly receding and losing its green color at a concerning rate. My torch coral has done this when unhappy but never to this extreme. It also excretes waste every five minutes, either as white powdery stuff or brown poop. Not sure if this is a normal rate for a coral, and if it is affecting the way it looks right now. At night, it is fully receding, to the point where almost its entire skeleton is visible. It doesn’t simply shrink a little like my torch does. It disappears completely.
I plan on doing a water change tomorrow, so maybe that will help. Here is a pic of it when I got it and a pic of it now. (Just a quick note: the first pic is when it first entered the tank so technically not even it at its fullest, but it’s the closest I could find)
Can I get some advise? My clowns have been out of the tank for a while but ever since they left, my torch coral is doing better but the hammer is doing worse. It’s on the sandbed out of direct flow, and gets direct light on the right side and a bit of shade on the left. I did move it an inch over two weeks ago to give it more light, but it wasn’t exactly thriving then either. There is a pistol shrimp that lives between it and the rock behind it, but I really can’t see that being a cause of this...
I haven’t tested parameters yet, but will when I do a water change tomorrow.
I’m at a loss here. I replaced my elegance coral with this hammer, having the thought that this would be hardier. Am I wrong?
Last month I bought a very large green hammer colony. Since then, it’s tissue has been slowly receding and losing its green color at a concerning rate. My torch coral has done this when unhappy but never to this extreme. It also excretes waste every five minutes, either as white powdery stuff or brown poop. Not sure if this is a normal rate for a coral, and if it is affecting the way it looks right now. At night, it is fully receding, to the point where almost its entire skeleton is visible. It doesn’t simply shrink a little like my torch does. It disappears completely.
I plan on doing a water change tomorrow, so maybe that will help. Here is a pic of it when I got it and a pic of it now. (Just a quick note: the first pic is when it first entered the tank so technically not even it at its fullest, but it’s the closest I could find)
Can I get some advise? My clowns have been out of the tank for a while but ever since they left, my torch coral is doing better but the hammer is doing worse. It’s on the sandbed out of direct flow, and gets direct light on the right side and a bit of shade on the left. I did move it an inch over two weeks ago to give it more light, but it wasn’t exactly thriving then either. There is a pistol shrimp that lives between it and the rock behind it, but I really can’t see that being a cause of this...
I haven’t tested parameters yet, but will when I do a water change tomorrow.
I’m at a loss here. I replaced my elegance coral with this hammer, having the thought that this would be hardier. Am I wrong?