Toadstool coral questions

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New to corals. Setup an 25 gallon AIO. I have had a hammer coral mushroom, palys and a toadstool frag for a month. All seem to be doing great all of sudden last night the toadstool turned grayish. Parameters are good all other corals are fine. Any suggestions.
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Give him time, enough flow and moderate lighting. J
 

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Toadstools will periodically retract like that and then shed their outer layer. If that's what it's doing, it will be bigger and brighter soon.
 

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+1 it's shedding put some good flow on it to help it out. She'll be back bigger in a day or so..
You're lucky mine does this twice a week
 

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+1 on shedding. Mine always looks really waxy on top when he’s about to shed
 
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+1 on shedding. Mine always looks really waxy on top when he’s about to shed
Just got worried the day before it’s was fully extended. Than today I got home and it was like this. But make sense because my hammer coral is going like crazy
 

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How close if you hammer? It’s not in the picture so I didn’t think it could be stinging.
 

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Normal for toadstool especially if shedding. Can also be attributed to lack of water flow especially if you see a shiny film on its' surface, then for sure increase water flow
 

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