Can’t grow hammers or frogspawn corals!!!!!

[Brian barranco]

Like the title . It doesn’t grow. I feed once awhile before a water change . Alk 9 Hanna & calcium 426 Hanna. Been a single head for about 6 months . I can grow sps & other lps but no luck with these two. Ab+ on two hydra 26hd. Kalk in ato

 

[alton]

What is the PAR level where these two are at?(I like 200 / 75 to 500 will work) And what are your Nitrates( I like 2 to 5 ppm) and Phosphate levels (anything but 0)?

 

[Brian barranco]

What is the PAR level where these two are at?(I like 200 / 75 to 500 will work) And what are your Nitrates( I like 2 to 5 ppm) and Phosphate levels (anything but 0)?

Nirates 15ppm & phosphate are .006 & not sure . Haven’t done a
Par test. Prolly 75-100 . Tank dimensions are 36x15x13

 

[Kzang]

Try switching to a more blue heavy spectrum? Jason fox just runs pure Bliss. From what I read, blues makes corals grow faster. People just adjust white and etc to make it look better.

Here's mine from ai website preset.

I have good growth on all my torches

 

[alton]

Nirates 15ppm & phosphate are .006 & not sure . Haven’t done a
Par test. Prolly 75-100 . Tank dimensions are 36x15x13

I take care of our local clubs Par meter and I have had people bring it back and tell they found out why some corals where not growing in their tank while other coral where doing great, it was because the uneven Par distribution of their leds. Try moving the coral a few inches to the left or right?

 

[Bayareareefer18]

I experienced something similar with my hammers. Seem to not to do much for the longest. Once the finally started to split they have continued to split after that.

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

I don't think I've ever met or heard of anyone that experienced rapid growth with their euphyllia haha. I've had the same hammer for ~3 years and it's only gone from a single head to five heads.

 

[Grape_City_Reefer]

I have our Frogspawn and Hammer pretty high in our tank up where our lower light SPS are located, our hammer went from a 2 head frag (maybe 3) to about a dozen. The Frogspawn is about at 6 all this has happened in the last 8 months or so we do feed atleast once a week. we have a single AI Prime running at 70% blue and white plus a sprinling of lower settings on the over spectrums.Here is picture of our hammer when we were tearing down our tank to move.

 

[Brian barranco]

Super strange. Well everyone tells me to keep my hammers and frogs on the bottom . Slowly bring them up i guess. heres a picture of bubblegum digi 2 weeks of growth . Different spectrum/same color as the beginning.

 

[Brian barranco]

keep in mind . My tank can grow monti,acans,acros ,lepos, zoas ,gsp/branching etc. tank is stable . So more par ?

 

[45ZoaGarden]

Could also be phosphates. My euphyllias get p¡ssed off when phosphates get too low. I keep it around .1-.15

 

[45ZoaGarden]

They would probably be happy with more light. I have my torch and frogspawn up top getting around 350 par and a hammer halfway down getting about 275 par

 

[Brian barranco]

thanks to everyone for the info