Is my Hammer mad at me?

[A.Astore]

I have a 150 gallon LPS dominated tank including a wall hammer. He has been perfectly happy since we put him in 2 months ago. Full polyp extension (could see no skeletal structure at all), amazing color, the whole 9 yards. I also have several branching hammers that are doing just fine.

Params

Am 0
NitrIte 0
NitrAte undetectable (as its always been)
Calc ranged between 420 and 450

The last few days the wall hammer has not been extending his polyps fully. The ONLY change is that recently we have had multiple QT tanks going. For our QTs we do TTM and use water from the DT.

Is the water too clean? Is it just because its a wall hammer and they are harder to keep so he is going to die because I chose poorly trying said wall? Could he be depressed for some other unknown reason and I should call a shrink? Im kinda at a loss here. Any thoughts or suggestions would be dandy.

 

[moze229]

I have a 150 gallon LPS dominated tank including a wall hammer. He has been perfectly happy since we put him in 2 months ago. Full polyp extension (could see no skeletal structure at all), amazing color, the whole 9 yards. I also have several branching hammers that are doing just fine.

Params

Am 0
NitrIte 0
NitrAte undetectable (as its always been)
Calc ranged between 420 and 450

The last few days the wall hammer has not been extending his polyps fully. The ONLY change is that recently we have had multiple QT tanks going. For our QTs we do TTM and use water from the DT.

Is the water too clean? Is it just because its a wall hammer and they are harder to keep so he is going to die because I chose poorly trying said wall? Could he be depressed for some other unknown reason and I should call a shrink? Im kinda at a loss here. Any thoughts or suggestions would be dandy.

I'd just wait it out a bit longer. In my experience, corals do weird, unexplainable things sometimes. Could be a growth/reproductive process. Unless something has changed drastically and it's not literally melting, I would worry not. Sometimes it's hard to see our prized corals appear to be in distress, but it is a part of the hobby.

Unrelated - recently experienced a similar situation with a clam that I've had for about 3 years. Got it when it was 2" and now is about 5". It started gaping, not looking good, etc. for no reason. Then I woke up one day and it was fine. *shrug* Been fine ever since.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

This is what wall hammers do, they die at about 8-12 weeks in our tanks. I've only found this with the ones that have been fragged before. If their skeleton is complete and never fragged you can tell by looking at it. This is my experience with them and I've bought/lost quite a few of them.

About 4 months ago I picked up one that has never been fragged and it's doing well.

I would suggest that you try following this about treating bacterial infections and go for it. I can't think of anything else it could be killing them. It's just very important to catch it early.

I wish you the best of luck.

http://www.athiel.com/lib/bacterial.html