Euphyllia Help

[animalkingdom]

Hello,
I need some help with my torch and wall hammer corals. I run a mixed reef heavy on the sps, but these two corals always look very retracted and sad. Other corals look great including other Euphyllia (branching hammer and frogspawn. Any ideas on what is wrong. Param are right where you would expect for a sps dominant tank. Just a skimmer and live rock and waterchanges for filtration.
Torch:

Wall Hammer:

 

[animalkingdom]

BTW the tank has been up for almost 3 months but the corals were doing this in the previous tank I moved from too. and another brief note the wall hammer actually looked much better for a week or two after the move, but has since reverted to its less than ideal state.

 

[GHill762]

are they in a very high flow area? are you blasting them with light? is there something pestering them? what's near them - are they getting stung by something? do you have leather corals in the tank? do you feed them? mine retract for a day or so if I feed them well..

 

[animalkingdom]

are they in a very high flow area?

the torch maybe but not the hammer

are you blasting them with light?

the torch maybe, but it hasn't bleached or anything. the hammer no (sandbed)

is there something pestering them?

No

what's near them

Nothing near the hammer. The torch is close to some encrusting soft coral you can see in the photo. it is retracted in the photo and I have no idea what it is, but its somewhere between star polyps clove polyps and xenia

are they getting stung by something?

nope

do you have leather corals in the tank?

one in the system in a separate tank. toadstool long polyp variety

do you feed them? mine retract for a day or so if I feed them well..

nope not targeted. I never see them get any of the mysis or pellets as well

 

[SUMMERS]

Both my hammer and my torch look like that when I provide too much flow in the tank. I didnt think it was too much flow, but after 10 minutes with the in tank pump off both corals started coming out.

I would rec that you turn off your internal pumps and see what happens. If the corals open up then you know its the flow. If that doesnt work then turn off one light or provide some sort of shade to see if that does the trick.

 

[animalkingdom]

Both my hammer and my torch look like that when I provide too much flow in the tank. I didnt think it was too much flow, but after 10 minutes with the in tank pump off both corals started coming out.

I would rec that you turn off your internal pumps and see what happens. If the corals open up then you know its the flow. If that doesnt work then turn off one light or provide some sort of shade to see if that does the trick.

thanks I have tried shading them and that did not help I will have to try the flow thing. if it works then Ill be a little upset because I am not turning the flow down permanently and they will either spend the rest of their lives retracted or I'll have to trade them.

 

[lilyost4290]

If the flow is an issue you could try blocking them by moving them near a rock or bigger coral

 

[chrisfont23]

I would bet its light. Mine do that at the end of my daylight cycle. I feel like its a sign of light exhaustion from being under LEDs all day