Hammer and torch issue

[53sBusa]

I have a question about a couple of my hammers and torches. First off let me start with posting my parameters. ALK 9.5 mag 1470 salinity 1.025-.026 temp 77-78 degrees, ammonia 0 nitrites 0 nitrates ~10 phosphate .87 and falling. Calcium 460

My issue is our torches and hammers are showing a little bit of skeleton when the lights are off. When the lights come back on they open fully and look happy. I don't see any worms and I don't see any brown slime. Anyone have any ideas why this may be happening? What can I do to reverse this? Thank you in advance.

 

[AlSimmons]

How long have you had the corals for? Have the edges always looked like this? As long as the corals are opening up I wouldn't worry about it too much. Being that your parameters are ok maybe all they need is time so that the tissue can grow back over the skeleton. Do you have any other corals in the tank? How do they look?

 

[Mark9]

phosphate .87 and falling.

That is super high for phosphate.

 

[53sBusa]

We started with 2.5 phosphate or the highest that a Hannah would read. The next reading was 1.48 now it is at a .87. We have a hairy mushroom some gsp acans octospawns canes waving hands Duncan's Superman mushrooms I'm sure I'm forgetting some but everything else looks good that I can tell. Everything is opening great the fish are looking great.

 

[53sBusa]

I also forgot to mention that we put a hammer in there about a month to two months ago that had a dead head. Could that have anything to do with it? That hammer opens up great and looks really happy when the lights are on.

 

[AlSimmons]

I don't think the dead head has anything to do with what your seeing. Just out of curiosity though did you purchase the corals from a LFS or online? If it's the latter I wonder if rolling around in the bag during transit caused the tissue to withdraw like that? Corals get damaged all the time in the mail.

 

[53sBusa]

We purchased them from a local person. Not LFS. I'm not too concerned with it but my wife is stressing out about it. I told her not to worry.