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02-24-2009, 05:08 PM
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squid
Join Date: Feb 2009
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I have had my tank for 1 1/2 years please help with my hammer
Ok to start the water per are all grate as you can see my sun coral is fine got her 5 months ago from lfs only had 10 heads now she has 74 back to my hammer for the past two weeks he will only open part of his tenicals first one side then the other went through the brown jelley lost over 3/4 of him he was starting to com back but now not his normal silf could this be growing pains
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02-25-2009, 07:25 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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What are your water parimeters?
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02-25-2009, 01:11 PM
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squid
Join Date: Feb 2009
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ok my water per are nitrites 0 ammonia 0 ph 8.6 k.h. 460 does this help
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02-25-2009, 01:19 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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What about water temp.Nitrates,phoshate and S.G.?
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02-25-2009, 02:11 PM
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squid
Join Date: Feb 2009
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phosphate .25 s.p.1.025 nitrate 0
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02-25-2009, 03:50 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Long Island NY
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mine was doing something similair about a week ago. It was spitting some junk out of 1 head and another wasn't opening at all. There were only two problems/changes I could figure out. First some how it had gotten moved ever so slightly by something. Second, I had changed the flow pattern in the tank. After I moved the hammer back to were it was originally and the flow back the way it was, everything was fine
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02-25-2009, 03:51 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Long Island NY
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is 460 your calcium? If so it's a tad high.
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02-25-2009, 04:20 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Nebraska
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Peanut
mine was doing something similair about a week ago. It was spitting some junk out of 1 head and another wasn't opening at all. There were only two problems/changes I could figure out. First some how it had gotten moved ever so slightly by something. Second, I had changed the flow pattern in the tank. After I moved the hammer back to were it was originally and the flow back the way it was, everything was fine
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i was just thinking the flow too, if i move my power heads even a little from the sweet spot i found. my Frogspawn gets really ticked off. When you do water changes its easy to move them on accident. I dont know if thats what happened with you , but its an idea..
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02-25-2009, 05:19 PM
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squid
Join Date: Feb 2009
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ok have to ask my flow has changed a bit was told that hammers nead only slite flow you think he maynot be getting the right amount???
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02-25-2009, 09:30 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Long Island NY
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I had repositioned my return from the sump. That's all it took.
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02-25-2009, 09:59 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Nebraska
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well if you made the flow less thats probably better. But if you changed the flow to more, its probably not.
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03-05-2009, 03:21 AM
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Plankton
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Hawaii
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Archon
well if you made the flow less thats probably better. But if you changed the flow to more, its probably not.
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I sort of think it's your lighting...Your sun corals are doing well because they don't use the lights for photosynist (sp) but your hammers need the light so it can open to it's full extent. What wattage do you have on your tank and how old are the bulbs?
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03-08-2009, 01:13 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 112
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isnt 8.6 ph a bit high? or no
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03-08-2009, 04:08 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 29
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i love hammers good luck with him
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08-08-2009, 03:35 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 57
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brown stuff coming from the mouth could be a couple of things. could be removing waste, but is more likely expelling simbiotic algae. Too much light? i don't think brown jelly is part of growing pains, it's a disease. hammers tend to be the toughest of the euphyllias for me. frogspawn and torches grow like weeds for me and hammers have always just kind of hung around. don't know why. anyway, we need more details about lighting and flow.
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