New Hammer frag shriveled

[msantarpia23]

I got my first hammer coral frag about 5 days ago. It looked like it was doing well until i got home from woek today and found it shriveled and releasing what ive read is mucus (white and stringy).
A few threads have said it could be stress related. It is currently on the substrate in a moderate/low flow area of the tank.
I also have aCandy cane frag and a few zoanthids.
Tank is a little better than 2 months old.
Parameters tested today
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-5ppm
Calcium- 460ppm
Alk-9 Dkh
Phosphate- 1ppm (could this be my issue)
PH- 8.0 (or 7.8 hard to tell)
Salinity- 1.024
Temperature controller set to maintain78-79 degrees F
Below is how it looked when i got it to now

 

[MnFish1]

I got my first hammer coral frag about 5 days ago. It looked like it was doing well until i got home from woek today and found it shriveled and releasing what ive read is mucus (white and stringy).
A few threads have said it could be stress related. It is currently on the substrate in a moderate/low flow area of the tank.
I also have aCandy cane frag and a few zoanthids.
Tank is a little better than 2 months old.
Parameters tested today
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-5ppm
Calcium- 460ppm
Alk-9 Dkh
Phosphate- 1ppm (could this be my issue)
PH- 8.0 (or 7.8 hard to tell)
Salinity- 1.024
Temperature controller set to maintain78-79 degrees F
Below is how it looked when i got it to now

If your PO4 is really 1 ppm - that could indeed be your problem. Any idea how it could have gotten that high since the rest of your parameters are 'ok'?

Do you happen to know the parameters that your LFS keeps their coral (Temp, pH, Alkalinity, PAR) - Since your picture is taken in different light its hard to see changes - but you're right it doesn't look 'great'.

Sometimes corals do this when first added to a new tank.

Also - do you have any other coral - to judge whether its something affecting this one coral - or everything in the tank? Toxin? etc. Do you use RODI?

 

[Hoodstream]

How did you acclimate the coral? Your phosphate is fine imo. Hammers like dirtier waters.

It’s probably just stress from coming from the shop to your tank. I’ve seen a lot of frag shops by me run their salinity at hypo. It’s a pain in the butt because I run a 1.026 reef tank.

However I believe it’s just stress but I am no expert reefer. I have a decent experience with soft and lps corals so far and to me it just looks like it’s stressed and adjusting.

Make sure flows not to high in the spot you put it and it has some moderate light. Should bounce back.

I don’t do anything other than temperature acclimate for corals. I float the bag dump the water into a bowl with Reef Dip, wait 15 mins, quick saltwater rinse, and into the tank we go!

I’ve had nothing but success that way which is why I ask if you just tossed the hammer in because my corals too get stressed but my bounce back is usually within 12 hours to a day.

hope it works.

 

[Hoodstream]

If your PO4 is really 1 ppm - that could indeed be your problem. Any idea how it could have gotten that high since the rest of your parameters are 'ok'?

Do you happen to know the parameters that your LFS keeps their coral (Temp, pH, Alkalinity, PAR) - Since your picture is taken in different light its hard to see changes - but you're right it doesn't look 'great'.

Sometimes corals do this when first added to a new tank.

Also - do you have any other coral - to judge whether its something affecting this one coral - or everything in the tank? Toxin? etc. Do you use RODI?

I thought he meant 0.1 but if it’s the other way then yes I can see that being the issue lol.

 

[msantarpia23]

If your PO4 is really 1 ppm - that could indeed be your problem. Any idea how it could have gotten that high since the rest of your parameters are 'ok'?

Do you happen to know the parameters that your LFS keeps their coral (Temp, pH, Alkalinity, PAR) - Since your picture is taken in different light its hard to see changes - but you're right it doesn't look 'great'.

Sometimes corals do this when first added to a new tank.

Also - do you have any other coral - to judge whether its something affecting this one coral - or everything in the tank? Toxin? etc. Do you use RODI?

I have 1 candy cane and a few zoanthids which look fine. And I’m not shure how it got that high. Could be overfeeding. Was thinking about doing some water changes

 

[MnFish1]

I have 1 candy cane and a few zoanthids which look fine. And I’m not shure how it got that high. Could be overfeeding. Was thinking about doing some water changes

Did you get them all from the same place

 

[msantarpia23]

How did you acclimate the coral? Your phosphate is fine imo. Hammers like dirtier waters.

It’s probably just stress from coming from the shop to your tank. I’ve seen a lot of frag shops by me run their salinity at hypo. It’s a pain in the butt because I run a 1.026 reef tank.

However I believe it’s just stress but I am no expert reefer. I have a decent experience with soft and lps corals so far and to me it just looks like it’s stressed and adjusting.

Make sure flows not to high in the spot you put it and it has some moderate light. Should bounce back.

I don’t do anything other than temperature acclimate for corals. I float the bag dump the water into a bowl with Reef Dip, wait 15 mins, quick saltwater rinse, and into the tank we go!

I’ve had nothing but success that way which is why I ask if you just tossed the hammer in because my corals too get stressed but my bounce back is usually within 12 hours to a day.

hope it works.

I also only temperture acclimated it. Hopefully its just stressed. Thank you for the reply

 

[msantarpia23]

Did you get them all from the same place

The candy cane and the hammer were from the same place added at the same time in the same acclimation manner. And I’m not shure about the parameters in the LFS next time i will test the water from the bag to compare