Droopy hammer tentacles

[Kingkold020]

I came home today to notice that one side of my new hammer was droop my and looking dead. Not sure if this is normal behavior. It was doing fine yesterday not sure what is up.

 

[MohrReefs]

Have you tried telling it a funny joke to perk its mood up?
In all seriousness though, do you have any shrimp or anything that could've walked across it? My LPS droop for a bit when they do in my tank. But typically perk back up.
Is it a new coral? New tank or mature tank?

 

[Kingkold020]

Have you tried telling it a funny joke to perk its mood up?
In all seriousness though, do you have any shrimp or anything that could've walked across it? My LPS droop for a bit when they do in my tank. But typically perk back up.
Is it a new coral? New tank or mature tank?

It’s a pretty new tank. Just added 3 hammers and a bunch of zoas and lps. Only been up for about 3 months. I do have two hermits so they may be the problem? One of my other hammers is also doing the thing where it releases brown goop so I’m not too sure what’s going on. The last hammer is doing perfectly fine.

 

[MohrReefs]

So your tank is still pretty young, going through a lot of changes. I had a hammer about the same time as you did when I first set up my tank, looked great at first then just took a dive after a while, I credit that to my tank not being mature but it could've also been damaged by my shrimp and got infected after. What kind of light and flow is it under? Might as well do a test on your parameters as well, someone is probably going to ask. I doubt its your hermits.

 

[Kingkold020]

So your tank is still pretty young, going through a lot of changes. I had a hammer about the same time as you did when I first set up my tank, looked great at first then just took a dive after a while, I credit that to my tank not being mature but it could've also been damaged by my shrimp and got infected after. What kind of light and flow is it under? Might as well do a test on your parameters as well, someone is probably going to ask. I doubt its your hermits.

Just did a test yesterday so here are the Parameters
Salinity 1.025
pH 8.0
Alk 9.8
Ammonia 0
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Phosphate 0
Calcium 440
Magnesium 1290
I’m using instant ocean reef crystals with no other supplements. My zoas are doing fantastic they opened up pretty quickly. I’m also going to start using reef roids today because I have no fish yet and my nitrates are low.

 

[MohrReefs]

Ah, there you go. You need nitrates and some(just a bit) phosphate in the water column for them to be happy. You might want to get a fish. Is your tank cycled?

 

[MohrReefs]

Shoot for around 5-10ppm nitrates and I think like .03 to .05 phos. Someone else can confirm phos.

 

[Kingkold020]

Ah, there you go. You need nitrates and some(just a bit) phosphate in the water column for them to be happy. You might want to get a fish. Is your tank cycled?

Yep tank has been cycles for around 2 months. Only took me a little while to get fish because of college. I plan to get something over the next few days.

 

[MohrReefs]

Yep tank has been cycles for around 2 months. Only took me a little while to get fish because of college. I plan to get something over the next few days.

Your corals will probably bounce back if you can get a little gill buddy to dirty that water up a bit.

 

[Kingkold020]

Your corals will probably bounce back if you can get a little gill buddy to dirty that water up a bit.

What would you recommend I do to dirty up my water. Should I crush up some fish pellets and throw that in along with the reef roids?