hammer mouth difficulties

[Matt Bravo]

hey guys, so ive had this blue australian hammer for a little over 2 weeks now and hes always been pretty nicely inflated but hes been stressing me quite a bit since his mouth never closes! I have another green (malaysian i think) hammer thats currently splitting and my parms are fine (listed them below, I know "fine" are not parms) seem decent. any thoughts? the mouth is not really gaping too big. picture that shocked emoji with a little smaller mouth

Alk 10 dkh
Nitrates 10
phos 0.01-0.05 ( api test thats super close to 0 but not exactly on 0)
calc 420
mag 1310
salinity kinda bounces between 1.025 - 1.027

 

[Matt Bravo]

I attached a small vid too so you guys could see around how much flow he’s getting

 

[Matt Bravo]

Edit* terrible picture, here’s a better one

 

[Matt Bravo]

@vetteguy53081 you think you can give me some advice on this?

 

[vetteguy53081]

hey guys, so ive had this blue australian hammer for a little over 2 weeks now and hes always been pretty nicely inflated but hes been stressing me quite a bit since his mouth never closes! I have another green (malaysian i think) hammer thats currently splitting and my parms are fine (listed them below, I know "fine" are not parms) seem decent. any thoughts? the mouth is not really gaping too big. picture that shocked emoji with a little smaller mouth

Alk 10 dkh
Nitrates 10
phos 0.01-0.05 ( api test thats super close to 0 but not exactly on 0)
calc 420
mag 1310
salinity kinda bounces between 1.025 - 1.027

Will need images under white lighting as its almost impossible to see anything with heavy blue
Also check:
Phosphate not elevated
Temperature

Hammer is fed- Best is mysis shrimp
Salinity best at 1.025.
Water flow not heavy as it will stress the coral and light not too dim for continuous production of zooxanthellae which is its energy source

 

[Matt Bravo]

Here’s a better pic. And I checked phos it is not high. It looks closer to zero on api test. Temp is at 78 and I have been feeding it a lot of brine shrimp hoping the mouth would close but it never did

 

[Matt Bravo]

Update, I checked out the coral and the mouth was very wide and the coral pooped. Yes I’m sure it’s poop, I’ve had hammers expel some zooxanthelle before and this was not zooxanthelle. I have another hammer in the system that’s splitting and the mouth was never open from the start. I really need help with this since I don’t wanna lose this guy