how to care care for Golden Australian hammer?

[HammerLover]

I bought a frogspawn coral at our LFS and bought 2 small frags of golden Australian hammers at a much discounted price.

I have hammers in my tank going for weeks. I feed them every other week with mysis shrimp every morning before turning on the lights. They are all fully expanded and looks fine. My hammers are one big purple and one smaller green.

My params are:
Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Phosphate-0.12
Calcium-360 ppm

I have one percula clownfish and one black clownfish. They've paired together and started hosting at my torch coral. My tank size is 10 gallons and has hammer corals, frogspawn, torch, bubble and some brain frags

Help will be appreciated

 

[Mark9]

Well, your ca is too low for corals .
As the ca is so low, i'm assuming your kh is low.
You really need to test ca/kh/mg.
And your phosphates are high.
Increasing your water change frequency would be a start to improving your water.
What is your SG?

Check out this link.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-05/rhf/

 

[Taahirs]

What salt are you using?

 

[shyerdj]

10g tank with all those LPS... good luck! id rather dose 2 part than do daily water changes in order to maintain a stable chemistry. i also think water changes is the more expensive option than dosing.

 

[shifty51008]

I would also lower your phosphates to around .02-.03.

What lights do you have? Also as stated you need to check your alk and mag also.

 

[HammerLover]

Yeah I've seen some minor diatom blooms in a small rock but most has been cleared now by my hermit crab. I've done some water changes (15%) and I started dosing this mix which has calcium, strontium and other stuff. I started with very small amounts and will increase it gradually. The hammers were now fully opened, I think since the started sending sweeper tentacles. I planned on feeding my tank twice a month or maybe once to avoid contamination. So far most of the corals are fine. My bubbles started sending out stingers so I moved my torches a bit. The torches were fully expanded as well and it seems fine even of my percula hosts it. I'll bring some water to my LFA soI can test my water now, but I guess its much better.