I think my torch, frogspawn, hammer are having problems

[Mombo]

Ive got a couple pics and I think my video upload worked so lets see how this goes. They seems to "fluff" up more in the past. The hammer really seems to have shrunk down. Not sure if I am giving them too much flow or what would be causing it. Or maybe they just do this every once in a while? They probably started doing this about a week ago.

I thought they were doing pretty good. The hammer and frogspawn both were shooting off little tiny heads from the sides of them. Not sure if they are dying or what. The little heads are still there.

Too much flow?



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[Andrewalex11]

What are your Calcium Alkalinity and Magnesium levels at?

What kind of equipment are you using for flow/ How much water volume is in your display tank?

What kind of lighting do you have?

And lastly are you feeding your corals?

 

[Mombo]

My tank is about 4 months old now. I have 2 clowns and a royal gramma.

I feed them lrs reef frenzy. I also feed coral food twice a week.

My tank is a 29g biocube. I use an sbreeflights retrofit light over it, and I use a tunze 6045 for flow. It's turned to about 50%.

I don't check alk/cal/mag yet but I do 20% water changes every week. So it might just be those parameters not being stable. I don't dose kalkwasser or 2 part yet. Still learning everything.

 

[Mombo]

From the video would you say its an "ok" amount of flow or too much flow?

 

[Andrewalex11]

My tank is about 4 months old now. I have 2 clowns and a royal gramma.

I feed them lrs reef frenzy. I also feed coral food twice a week.

My tank is a 29g biocube. I use an sbreeflights retrofit light over it, and I use a tunze 6045 for flow. It's turned to about 50%.

I don't check alk/cal/mag yet but I do 20% water changes every week. So it might just be those parameters not being stable. I don't dose kalkwasser or 2 part yet. Still learning everything.

If you're planning on keeping corals it is absolutely necessary to test those levels; and to add onto that those levels of Calcium/Alkalinity/Magnesium are MAJOR trace elements and are the bare minimum to keeping a successful reef. I can almost assure you that whatever issue you're having could be identified by doing a full reef tank water test.

The following is a minimum of what you should be testing for:

Calcium
Alkalinity
Magnesium
Phosphates
Nitrates
PH
Salinity

As for flow, it looks like they are getting blasted, try to adjust your flow until you get that nice peaceful relaxing swaying motion. But ill ask again what equipment are you using for flow?

 

[Mombo]

I have a tunze 6045 for flow.

I moved my return and powerhead around and think I got the flow to those down. Ill watch it for a couple days and see what happens. Thanks for the help.

All the testing kits are on my things to get list slowly but surely.

 

[Mombo]

Well! That had a bigger affect than I thought it would. The torch and the hammer both puffed up more. I think the torch is bigger then it ever has been. If the hammer gets as big as it used to the torch might be able to reach it.

I know hammers and frogspawn get along. But torches can hurt hammers and frog spawns correct? Should I move em now before it happens?

 

[Andrewalex11]

Well! That had a bigger affect than I thought it would. The torch and the hammer both puffed up more. I think the torch is bigger then it ever has been. If the hammer gets as big as it used to the torch might be able to reach it.

I know hammers and frogspawn get along. But torches can hurt hammers and frog spawns correct? Should I move em now before it happens?

I would not let any of them intertwine, they all can sting quite harshly. I'm glad you fixed your issue though Euphyllia can be a tricky coral to care for most label it as easy/moderate because its an "LPS" Coral but they can be just as needy as some difficult "SPS" Corals.