Wall hammer question

[Grkgod36]

I'm running a90 gallon 24 inch deep tank with ocean revive t247 led's ...lights are about 8 inches of water.
Blues on 30 whites on 20 . The blues come on at 1-11 and whites etc come on from 3-9 .
My zoas /polyps are thriving . I have a toadstool frag and a mushroom frag close to the bottom . When the blues kick on after a bit the toadstool has its tentacles out and the mushroom is open .

After the whites kick on for few hrs the toadstool tetracts its tentacles and the mushroom shrivles up..

And I have s hammer which will not open he's close to the top .

Any suggestions ? Should I move them to the bottom completely and try find shade under some live Rock ?

 

[nathan1986]

I dont want to be the first with a negative comment but, id start saving for a nice branching hammer. Once wall hammers start going down hill its pretty much game over. Few on here have had success with wall hammers for a year or 2 but i think they went thru a few walls before they got one that lasted

 

[Fishmommy]

Wall hammer question

Too much light, sounds like. I fried my corals with LEDs for awwhile. Luckily my 3 walls survived

 

[Grkgod36]

thanks guys, possibly too much light , everything else doing great .

 

[Daniel62]

walls are pretty hard to keep. I 2nd the branching recommendation

 

[Grkgod36]

Will do . Thanks

 

[herring_fish]

Walls can handle a lot of light eventually but they need to get acclimated first and that may take some time. In my old tank,20 years ago. After just a few days or weeks, I put my wall hammer a foot from the top. I had 2 by 250w MD's and vho's. The hammer loved it. It grew pretty big and eventually had babies.

It grew many little protrusions out of the stony part, just below the lip. They were being shaded by the polyps. I thought that wall hammers were very hardy at the time.

In my new thank, I bought another one and it got the brown jelly over and over again until it was no more. I think that I had it too high in the tank.

I am thinking that many years ago, you could collect them in sallower waters than now and maybe deeper hammers just can't take the light right away if at all.

 

[pyithar]

most of my hammers and frogspawns are "wall" type because that's all i could get where i live. they grow very very slow. they like light but they don't like too much flow.