How to get better growth on LPS

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Hello everyone, long time lurker here. I have a 24 gal cube I’ve been running since Nov 2014. The corals I have here I got in around July 2017 (everything before died, although not many). I wanted to know if I could get some recommendations on what may be going on with my frogspawn and hammer coral and how I can make them healthier, make their tentacles come out more. I know my corals don’t look as amazing as you guys, so that’s why I’m here. Here’s some pictures of my 24 gal cube setup:

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Honestly, your corals look really healthy! If you want them to open more, you can dial the flow back some as euphyllia tend to spread out more in lower flow. If you're looking for accelerated growth, you can target feed them with dry coral foods like coral frenzy or frozen foods like mysis shrimp or LRS Reef Frenzy. You could also target feed them a thick slurry of reef roids but RR tends to jack up your phosphates so be careful with that.
 
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Honestly, your corals look really healthy! If you want them to open more, you can dial the flow back some as euphyllia tend to spread out more in lower flow. If you're looking for accelerated growth, you can target feed them with dry coral foods like coral frenzy or frozen foods like mysis shrimp or LRS Reef Frenzy. You could also target feed them a thick slurry of reef roids but RR tends to jack up your phosphates so be careful with that.
Thank you for your suggestion. I’ve kinda been off on the maintenance, but I mainly just top it off and do the occasional water change. I think I need to do a complete parameter check and go from there. I’ll need to buy a test kit, as my old Red Sea one is 4 years expired.
 

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