anyone with any luck keeping hammer corals with toadstool & spaghetti leathers?

[salt newbie01]

I have a 75 gallon with some candy canes, green star polyp, gonipora, green/red brain, gbta, kenya tree, small hammer (euphyllia) and small toadstool (sarcophyton). EVeryone was doing fine and then I added the toadstool. Then head on it is approx the size of a quater maybe slightly larger. It is on the other side of the tank from the hammer. After about 5 days the hammer began to receed. It is not puffing up as it was before and some of the "tentacles" are staying flat. Could even a small toadstool be affecting the hammer from across the tank?

After reading the article on renaming corals in RK magizine it seems these two corals are not very friendly with each other. Anyone keeping them together with any long term success? I am supposed to get a spaghetti leather frag this weekend, and they seem to affect the hammers also per the article. I guess I may be geeting rid of the rid of the hammer before it's too late if there is nothing I can do. Any sugestions??

Oh and I tested my water last night
nirate & nitrite 0
amonia 0
Phos .5
calcium 540
salinity 1.024
ph 8.2
temp 80

No other changes made.
thanks

 

[MayoBoy]

Not a hammer, but I have a frogspawn and toadstool about 8 inches apart with no problems

 

[David Grigor]

I've never had any issues and have kept toadstools along with several types of hammers/frogspawns/torch corals over the years.......

Most likely the receeding is unrelated and this is not the root cause.

 

[salt newbie01]

Thanks for the input. I will continue searching for the cause...

 

[reefwick]

No problems here either. Sarcophyton elegans and branching hammer 6-8'' apart. Oh yeah and my spaghetti leather is almost touching my hammer and all polyps are extended. So absolutely no problems here.