One of my hammers is not thriving like the others

[BUBBLEBA55]

Can anyone help me identify what the issue is with one of my hammer corals? Have a 75 gallon tank that’s been established for around eight months and all the corals I have put in have done very well. I have a torch That’s doing very good. My Monties are all doing very well. And my two other hammer corals are thriving. In fact, my two hammer corals that are doing well have begun splitting into three heads each. My issue lies with a hammer coral I got around four months ago that has always been closed up. Its flesh line has always been slightly raised and on one of the other heads has been almost all the way raised on one side. I cannot figure out what this hammer needs to thrive. I’ve moved it once or twice because I thought it could be flow or light and I’ve kept the tank stable in the parameters.

It’s also worth note that I thought about a month ago that it could be a pest due to the fact that my other hammers in the same location we’re doing so well so I did a reef dip with searchem coral dip for 5 minutes but nothing fell off that I could see and nothing changed with the hammer.

Current parameters:
Alkalinity 9
Calcium 450
Salinity 1.025
Nitrates 4
Phosphates 0.03
Magnesium 1320
Nitrites 0
Ammonia 0

 

[*GAREEF*]

Sounds like it might have been stressed before you got it and it’s just never recovered.
What is the temperature you’re keeping them?
If it were me I’d move to about 50 par with a low to med flow back and forth and continue to monitor it. Maybe even raise your nutrient numbers a little bit.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

How long has it been in that spot? Has it been unhappy since you got it? It could be just a placement issue, perhaps move it to a different spot.....

 

[BUBBLEBA55]

Sounds like it might have been stressed before you got it and it’s just never recovered.
What is the temperature you’re keeping them?
If it were me I’d move to about 50 par with a low to med flow back and forth and continue to monitor it. Maybe even raise your nutrient numbers a little bit.

I keep the tank at 78° pretty steady

 

[BUBBLEBA55]

How long has it been in that spot? Has it been unhappy since you got it? It could be just a placement issue, perhaps move it to a different spot.....

It’s been pretty much like this since I got it. I thought it was a placement issue as well. I’ve had it in around 2 to 3 spots over the last couple months and it’s been about the same. I have it where it is now because the other two hammers seem to be doing good in the same spot