Is this hammer ok?

[hllb]

I just got this yesterday and it seems a bit receded on one side. Is this just stress or something more troubling? Sorry for the bad pictures.

 

[Joe BBC]

most likely stress - give the little guy some time.

 

[hllb]

most likely stress - give the little guy some time.

Will do. Now I need to decide how long to acclimate them to the lights before I move them up (I got 5 frags yesterday, 4 of which will need to be moved up from the sand bed).

 

[Terry Mattson]

What are your numbers? SG, dkh, calcium, ph, magnesium, and what are your lights. Spectrum? I had to increase flow to get mine to open 100%. Then one day it stayed semi open and found my icecap 3000 (flow). Stopped. Cleaned the icecap 3000 and it opened 100%. They like some flow.

 

[hllb]

What are your numbers? SG, dkh, calcium, ph, magnesium, and what are your lights. Spectrum? I had to increase flow to get mine to open 100%. Then one day it stayed semi open and found my icecap 3000 (flow). Stopped. Cleaned the icecap 3000 and it opened 100%. They like some flow.

These number are from Sunday after my WC. I do have an icecap 1K gyre that I will install this weekend to increase flow.
SG: 1.025
Alk: 9.3
Ca: 425
Mg: 1620 (My batch of Reef Crystals tests at 2400 so I'm switching to Red Sea)
Ph: 8.1

Lights are Nanobox Reef large set for my biocube. I didn't have the lights on much yesterday when I put them in though (other than the blue spectrums)

 

[Terry Mattson]

These number are from Sunday after my WC. I do have an icecap 1K gyre that I will install this weekend to increase flow.
SG: 1.025
Alk: 9.3
Ca: 425
Mg: 1620 (My batch of Reef Crystals tests at 2400 so I'm switching to Red Sea)
Ph: 8.1

Lights are Nanobox Reef large set for my biocube. I didn't have the lights on much yesterday when I put them in though (other than the blue spectrums)

Numbers liik great. Adding flow will help.

 

[hllb]

Cool, thanks. I'll probably work on that tomorrow.

 

[King Turkey]

My hammer looked like that for a month be it spreed out.

 

[hllb]

Here’s my light channels. Ignore the yellow but the other channels are royal, white, violet, blue/cyan, and mint.

 

[Sweet_Reeferville]

Hi, noticed you took the first picture when the lights were off. At night, my hammers normally recede. Have you noticed this when the lights are on in the tank?

 

[hllb]

Hi, noticed you took the first picture when the lights were off. At night, my hammers normally recede. Have you noticed this when the lights are on in the tank?

Yes, it was like that last night when lights were on too, though had only been in the tank for maybe 2 hours. Just wasn't sure if it was damaged or just stressed.

 

[hllb]

Here is a pic from tonight. More expanded but I can still see some skeleton. I’m thinking he’s probably ok though.

 

[Roosterjack]

Mine look like that at night...but during the day,

 

[Sweet_Reeferville]

Looks good! In my experience (a years worth ) They do go through an acclimation period between the tank they use to be in and yours.