Stop. Hammer question time!

[drebay]

Now that I paid respect to MC parachute pants- Hoping folks can help me out. Had the hammer below for a bout 3 weeks and it was doing fine getting slowly acclimated to lights. Better half told me some tentacles looked shrunk when I was headed home. This is what I came home to (below). Sweeper? There’s a branching hammer about 6 inches away sorta in the direction and bowerbanki about 10 inches away in the opposite direction other corals even further away. I’m a tripping should be from them ?? No coral nipping fish and param have been pretty stable- 35 ppt sal., alk 8.4, ph 8.29, 78 degrees, mag 1280, ca 436, nh 3 & no 2 zero, phosphate 0.06, nitrate 0.69 no change in flow no recent feeding. Don’t really see anything on the skeleton a feather duster but that’s in a different place. Appreciate folks helping me learn in advance!

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

Lil white light?

 

[mtraylor]

It appears to be a sweaper

 

[drebay]

That’s what I was thinking but I thought hammers were generally safe with one another and wouldn’t the banki frag be too far away? Obviously I’m wrong about something. Tried to unblue the original pic @kingoftheHiLLpeople unfortunately I suck with cameras so this’ll have to do for now.

 

[JGT]

Looks too thin to be a sweeper. Hard to tell with pic but maybe a digitate hydroid.

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

No worries! It does appear to be sweeper - wasnt sure - i thought you wanted to know why it was deflated.

 

[drebay]

No worries! It does appear to be sweeper - wasnt sure - i thought you wanted to know why it was deflated.

Came to likely a sweeper caused that localized deflation but now I’d like to know from whom. There’s another hammer, branching, that is closest and would make sense given where it was attacked but I thought hammers were ok with one another. There’s a small bowerbanki frag in the opposite direction like to the left in the pic but that seems a ways away. So my question is do hammers attack one another or do bowerbanki have real long sweepers? Want to make sure I learn and move appropriately.

 

[drebay]

Looks too thin to be a sweeper. Hard to tell with pic but maybe a digitate hydroid.

Wasn’t thinking it was a digitate hydroid b/c it didn’t have that dotty appearance just off the main central tube thing. Lol not like anyone can tell with my crappy pic.

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

yes - bowers do have tentacles. The hydroids have me interested - but as i cant see the lil hairs in pic either. I can always be wrong tho

 

[kingoftheHiLLpeople]

I cant tell - appears as tho the pictured euphyllia is trailing off a sweeper in the current? So i dont think from what i see any neighboring coral is irritating it.