Branching Hammer Help

[Vho]

What is happening to my Branching Hammer? It was happy and in full bloom a week ago and starting Monday it started looking not to happy. It's a 1.5 gallon tank, weekly water changes, and most recently I started doing small water changes every other day to clear up some cyano.

I've recently placed a new open brain coral frag into the tank near it and thats when it started looking sad. I ran some carbon in the HOB filter for 24 hours and have since removed the bag and did a water change.

As you can see in one of the pics, the right head was in full bloom and happy.

 

[fishkeeprian]

What is happening to my Branching Hammer? It was happy and in full bloom a week ago and starting Monday it started looking not to happy. It's a 1.5 gallon tank, weekly water changes, and most recently I started doing small water changes every other day to clear up some cyano.

I've recently placed a new open brain coral frag into the tank near it and thats when it started looking sad. I ran some carbon in the HOB filter for 24 hours and have since removed the bag and did a water change.

As you can see in one of the pics, the right head was in full bloom and happy.

One one off the pics I can see a sexy shrimp at the base of the head, this may be upsetting it.

 

[Vho]

The Sexies are always hanging out in that area even before the Hammer was mad. They are rarely on the hammer, they just hang out in the back behind it.

Went to bed last night with both heads fully retracted in and went to check on it this morning and it looks like it normally does when the lights are off. The little fingers were out partially.

Will be testing my water today after work.

 

[aromano]

what is your alkalinity doing. with such small tank keeping H2O chemistry is tough. My LPS get fussy if I bump my alk too much during water changes,

 

[Vho]

I found out what my problem was. My LFS sold me saltwater that was 1.012. They asked me if I only get water from them and when I said yes, they knew they did me wrong.

Ended up giving me 50% a refractometer, a bag of salt, and gave me instructions to slowly dose my salinity back up.

50% off was not worth them crashing my tank.

I did 3 water changes last week hoping that would fix my problem. Guess that was a bad bad idea.

 

[Fish finder]

That sucks about the water but good to know the problem got fixed