Is this a healthy hammer? Seems droopy to me

[smande00]

I recently (about 6 days ago) added this frag to my tank. I've had to move it a couple times to get it to open at all (too much direct flow I believe) and this is as good as it has looked yet, but it still seems to be a bit "droopy" to me. I see a lot of pics where the tentacles are standing straight. I did see it expel a bit of zooxanthellae (not much and color at least seems ok still) earlier in the day. First time it has done that.

 

[cloak]

I would just leave it alone. Sometimes when you fiddle with corals like that, they're always pi$$ed off. It needs a little time to itself IMO. GL.

 

[reefer999]

+1 on letting it be, probably a bit stressed from all the moving around.

 

[reefer999]

Double post

 

[smande00]

Thanks guys - letting it be for now (not easy given how neurotic I am).

The head higher up let out more zoo yesterday and the bottom head has some white flap of skin or something hanging off that just appeared today. Any idea what that white flap is?

 

[organism]

Looks to me like it's getting way too much light, I'd put it on the sandbed in the shade.

 

[smande00]

I hate to physically move it again - would dimming the lights further be as effective? I started out at 100%, realized that was probably a bad idea and dropped them down to about 50%. I can dim even further if that would help or simply move it down to the sand as you mentioned.

 

[organism]

Honestly physically moving it onto the sandbed in the shade will be a lot better for it, leaving it where it is will just keep stressing it out if it's been damaged by light. Running LEDs at 100% is generally not a good plan, white LEDs especially can really burn corals at that brightness. I think I run mine at 100% on the blues and 30% on whites, every fixture is different though.

 

[smande00]

Fair enough - I actually already bit the bullet and moved them to the bottom. It inflated a bit before it was time for lights out, but it's done that before. Will just keep an eye on it and hope for the best.

Thanks!

 

[organism]

No worries, if you have pellet food you may wanna turn the pumps off for an hour and put a tiny pinch on each head once a week or so, helps them open up and get healthy pretty quick