Coral feeding advice, hammer not opening

alice 01

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Hi all
I have mostly soft corals and a few Lps coral.
I bought some new frags recently
All soft corals are fine but my hammer frags are not opening they have been in situ for 5/6 days now.
I know they can be a little slow to open but I'm not sure what the usual time zone is.
Anything I can do to help them along
Also the last 2 corals pictured are not doing as well as they were, even though nothing has changed.

What would be a good feeding regime for the corals?

My water levels on last test were (one week ago, will test again tomorrow)
Ph 8.15
Nitrate 5
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Phosphate 0.05
Kh/alk 8.6
Calcium 470
Magnesium 1440

Salinity 0.025
Temperature 25


Also have a torch coming on Friday so want to make sure I have no issues with that.

Thanks in advance
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Looks like a fairly new tank.. Still see typical new tank uglies/film algae/cyano,etc...

Give the corals some time for now.. Another few days.
Feeding really shouldn't be needed as the corals should get basically all they need from the light/algae inside them..

The bottom 2 are typically rather finicky about light levels.. Too much will often be a problem for them.. What type of lighting do you have? What settings if LEDs,etc...?
Can you try to put them in a more shaded area?

What do you have for flow in the tank (powerheads,etc..)? Where are they?
Can we get a full tank shot?
 
I would echo what mcgyvr said, also, it’s been my experience that hammers do best in low flow until established. Hammers also need at least a few hours of strong lighting to maintain their color. Mine does best on the bottom in the gravel, slight flow, and three hours minimum strong lighting during the day...from what I can see your cyano is gonna go crazy out of control when you increase lighting, so manually suck that out, control feeding, or it’ll cover everything.
 
Oh, and put all that green star polyps together our on an island by itself, or it’ll cover all your rock and most corals eventually...
 
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