Hammer coral experts I need some input

your mag is low, may not be the exact cause but i would retest a few hours after the water change and dose accordingly. it doesnt look too concerning to me, possibly adjusting to light and flow.
I moved the frogspawn up a little to a area off the sandbed. whats crazy is did a water change saturday and have been dosing 2 part daily in small amounts to keep my alk up. my 2 part has magnesium in it.
 
Im using hanna checkers. then i went to the lfs where they used salifert hanna checkers and a spin test
Have you calibrated your salinity tester ? These are the ranges where you want to be:

Temp 77-79
ph 8.1-8.3
salinity 1.025
nitrate < .10
phos < .04
Ammonia < .03
mG 1300
Alk 8-11
CA 400- 440
 
Have you calibrated your salinity tester ? These are the ranges where you want to be:

Temp 77-79
ph 8.1-8.3
salinity 1.025
nitrate < .10
phos < .04
Ammonia < .03
mG 1300
Alk 8-11
CA 400- 440
My tester has been calibrated in the last 2 weeks. i dont know about the one at the fish store.
 
Just keep it stable and don’t adjust things much. U said u have an alk swing. U corrected it but in a short period of time. Their is no tissue loss. Mayb lil stressed but dont add to it. Sometimes one of my acans is closed but the others are all open and lookin good. Happens. Should b ok my dude
 
I moved the frogspawn up a little to a area off the sandbed. whats crazy is did a water change saturday and have been dosing 2 part daily in small amounts to keep my alk up. my 2 part has magnesium in it.
mag is a super important element for euphyllia. how big is the tank and how stocked is it? possibly just consuming it quickly? i have a 3g euphie dominant setup and i have to do almost 100% w/cs to maintain it often.
 
Just keep it stable and don’t adjust things much. U said u have an alk swing. U corrected it but in a short period of time. Their is no tissue loss. Mayb lil stressed but dont add to it. Sometimes one of my acans is closed but the others are all open and lookin good. Happens. Should b ok my dude
Thats the plan at this point. funny enough my acan looks amazing i gave him a pellet of this new brightwell foo and he started to develop some green orange and red rainbow rings but this hammer and frogspawn are killing me. Will prolly end up being another big lesson
 
mag is a super important element for euphyllia. how big is the tank and how stocked is it? possibly just consuming it quickly? i have a 3g euphie dominant setup and i have to do almost 100% w/cs to maintain it often.
i got 8 frags in there one being a nice little colony of zoas and 3 fish.
 
mag is a super important element for euphyllia. how big is the tank and how stocked is it? possibly just consuming it quickly? i have a 3g euphie dominant setup and i have to do almost 100% w/cs to maintain it often.
last page of my build thread got a detailed list of everything.
 
another theory i have is getting ready to poop or possibly even split. usually my branching frags puff up when they are trying to poop
 
another theory i have is getting ready to poop or possibly even split. usually my branching frags puff up when they are trying to poop
This is a possibility the frogspawn when he shriveled up from the alk swing looked like one head was starting to become 2 but idk about the hammer maybe tho. the hammer from my knowledge accepted a piece of pellet food and kept it down.
 
max the color goes to is 50 percent for a few hours during the middle of the day.
I would slowly bring it up by 5% every week until blues hit around 75-85% I mostly run blues with no green or no red as those two are usually appealing to us. Corals take in the blue light much better then white in my experience. I also run mine at 90% blues and they’re growing really fast while keeping everything else is stable (cal,Alk and mag)
 
I would slowly bring it up by 5% every week until blues hit around 75-85% I mostly run blues with no green or no red as those two are usually appealing to us. Corals take in the blue light much better then white in my experience. I also run mine at 90% blues and they’re growing really fast while keeping everything else is stable (cal,Alk and mag)
Unfortunately i cant control the blue spectrum i got a older light but i can almost guarantee that's not the problem because ive ran other tanks w the same color level im more worried about intensity and length
 
Unfortunately i cant control the blue spectrum i got a older light but i can almost guarantee that's not the problem because ive ran other tanks w the same color level im more worried about intensity and length
Chk and see if BRS did a test w that light. May help if I don’t have a par meter.
 
when i moved the frogspawn i noticed on the beginning of the white part where it receded at the stalk looks almost as is algae was creeping onto it. so if the frogspawn i put up on the rocks puffs up im gonna feel stupidddd
 
I run a 12 hr pp w an hour ramp on either side. 10 hr intensity. I have redsea 90s and I run them at 100 both blue and white so it’s like 15k spectrum
 

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