Help My Hammer Coral! Polyp Recession

[aaa1234]

Heres two pics of it after moving it out of its spot where it had started receeding its polyps.

And heres the spot i had it before moving it.

I had it right in that hole. It had a lot of flow and prime 70w MH position. I moved it to a less flow spot and didnt help, no its in a very low flow zone. What can i do?! Checking my params soon so ill update.

 

[aaa1234]

Anyone?

 

[2farNorth]

Water parameters?

Anything picking on it perhaps? such as that cleaner shrimp?

It is kinda close to the other stuff in there,, but that shouldn't really hurt the hammer... shouldn't...

 

[aaa1234]

Ive seen my cleaner shrimp go over it a few times but never blatantly pick at it.

 

[aaa1234]

Perams are in check, water change done for this week too. All my other corals are flourishing.

 

[otiso777]

Maybe allelopathy from the soft corals, zoanthids, and mushrooms. Do you use a protein skimmer and activated carbon?

 

[dan10342]

i do see lots of softies. i second what otiso777 said. i think the hammer would do more harm physically (stinging) to softies, than softies to it.

 

[amaya]

mine like VERY VERY low flow and they can handle mh but acclimation must be slow

 

[2farNorth]

Ya, thats kinda what I'm thinking, from the softies...

 

[madamo]

There is probably chemical warefare going on. As Otiso said, I would start running carbon to reduce the effects..