Hammer Coral Care Growth Feeding Dosing Flow Placement Saltwater Coral Reef Aquarium

[@brian-te4xs]

New subscriber : I thought your video had very good insight/experience to share. Definitely gonna watch your videos. It’s cool when people share and help others out with experience based knowledge. Take care

[@Dariusdoesreefing]

I love this type of detailed content ! Everything is blossoming in your tank. I miss direct feeding it was so much fun too but the damn cyano loves that reef roids more then the corals 😂

[@atmazza]

Maybe is the reason my glass gets patches of a brown thing. Thought was algae. Using reeffoids. What you suggest and what have worked for you?

[@terezaveis2270]

Fabulous video, I found this so helpful thankyou 😃

[@stephaneponce9739]

Great video. Thank you. Could you please share your water parameters (KH, Ca and Mg)? Thank you. Hope I will achieve growth with branching corals.

[@saltypops4276]

Hello. Below are the minimums I like to see. I don’t chase to a specific number. So as long as it isn’t crazy above the below I leave it alone. Calcium 420+ Alk 9+ Mag 1375+

[@Moondoggy1941]

Video starts at 11:00, your welcome.

[@ShannonBillows]

Hey Salty, how long do you leave flow off for? so you also turn of heaters during this time?

[@saltypops4276]

Hey. I only leave flow off for 10-15 min. Not very long at all, so no I don’t turn my heater off.

[@ShannonBillows]

@@saltypops4276 legend thank you

[@DanGrubb1967]

Okay I've been thinking about changing light schedule on my water box 20 I have the AI Prime 16 but I have a lot of sps's on the top and a lot of LPS is on the bottom what I'm concerned about will there be enough par for the sps on the top what kind of par reading are you getting at the top for your sps

[@antonyh37]

Would .23ppm of phosphate cause a hammer coral not to open? I have a hammer coral frag that receded while I was on a week vacation in July and hasn't opened since. It's not dead as I can see the polyps. The actually get a little larger at night.

[@saltypops4276]

That’s fairly high but shouldn’t impact the coral like that. Real high can kill coral but I don’t think 0.23 should be impacting like that. Is this a newer coral before vacation or a coral that has been in there a while? Is all the other coral in the tank happy? Has anything changed, such as lighting, placement, etc

[@antonyh37]

@@saltypops4276 it's been in the tank for almost a year now. No changes. Same parameters. The frogspawn I've had for two years just started receding. One head died but I think that was due to a larger hermit crab bothering it. The only things I see after testing water with Hanna checkers are the phosphate and iodine testing 0.00. I started dosing seachem iodide and nothing has changed.

[@saltypops4276]

@@antonyh37 message me on Facebook and include a couple pics

[@saltypops4276]

I created a Facebook profile Salty Pops

[@Rodderick901]

0.23 phosphate will not be a problem. 9 days ago, my phosphates reached 0.48 ppm but my 2 hammers ( plus all my other corals) were fine. I immediately added fresh GFO which brought the phosphates down.

[@a.c713]

I have a question why does my Hammer coral stay wide open They are not together like yours

[@saltypops4276]

What exactly do you mean by wide open? Spacing of the branches which makes the heads seem wide apart or the actual heads themselves.

[@a.c713]

@@saltypops4276The actual head it look so stretched out the polyps are far apart and hanging over

[@saltypops4276]

The 2 highest potentials are: 1. The flow there are in is too low. 2. Could be that they are stretching for light. What light and settings do you have?

[@HieuNguyen-ts1bo]

what is your light set up sir?

[@saltypops4276]

I run AI Prime 16 HD with my custom Salty Pops light schedule.