hammer head closed up

rmojica13 · Feb 28, 2020

hey i have one of my two hammerheads closed up for a few days now, no idea why.
any suggestions?
water changes weekly
CA-425
MG-1350
KH-10.4
Salt-1.025
PH-7.8/8.0 (api test kit hard to tell sometimes)
ammonia-0
nitrate-10
phosphate- is the only test kit i don't have, ran out.

W1ngz · Feb 28, 2020

inspect the coral and see if anything is growing near it that might bother it, and watch closely if fish, crabs or shrimp may be picking at it.

Reefer40b · Feb 29, 2020

Have a picture?

rmojica13 · Feb 29, 2020

rmojica13 · Feb 29, 2020

Reefer40b said:
Have a picture?

There you go also my clown fish are hosting the green hammer, well I believe they are.

William Mumford · Feb 29, 2020

rmojica13 said:
There you go also my clown fish are hosting the green hammer, well I believe they are.

Did they just start to host?

Reefer40b · Feb 29, 2020

Picture of it looks fine, the clowns brushing up against it here in there will make it retract some. edit sorry didnt see the other hammer next to it that's probably the one your talking about... How long has it been placed in that spot? You could try moving it lower may be too much light for him.

W1ngz · Feb 29, 2020

Ok so it's not clear which one you're having an issue with, but the smaller one in that pic looks awful close to that chalice. To my knowledge chalices don't play nice so close to other corals.

rmojica13 · Feb 29, 2020

Reefer40b said:
Picture of it looks fine, the clowns brushing up against it here in there will make it retract some. edit sorry didnt see the other hammer next to it that's probably the one your talking about... How long has it been placed in that spot? You could try moving it lower may be too much light for him.

yea its the one peach one, im going to try and move it down to the sand bed today.

rmojica13 · Feb 29, 2020

W1ngz said:
Ok so it's not clear which one you're having an issue with, but the smaller one in that pic looks awful close to that chalice. To my knowledge chalices don't play nice so close to other corals.

sorry for being unclear its the peach one i am having issues with

Mburns11 · Mar 1, 2020

My mated pair clown fish (which I bought with an anemone) hosted a giant rock of pulsing Xenia’s instead. It took a few months but the loved it to death. I was recently told that they might host my hammerheads once they get bigger, so far they haven’t touched anything else.

rmojica13 · Mar 1, 2020

Mburns11 said:
My mated pair clown fish (which I bought with an anemone) hosted a giant rock of pulsing Xenia’s instead. It took a few months but the loved it to death. I was recently told that they might host my hammerheads once they get bigger, so far they haven’t touched anything else.

yea at one point i had a anemone as well, which one of them hosted. im trying to figure out how to stop from damaging my hammers but idk how.

Indytraveler83 · Mar 1, 2020

W1ngz said:
Ok so it's not clear which one you're having an issue with, but the smaller one in that pic looks awful close to that chalice. To my knowledge chalices don't play nice so close to other corals.

+1 on this. Sweepers from a healthy chalice are evil. I keep mine isolated from everything else.