Bought damaged hammer - frag or leave?

[ACBlinky]

I bought a beautiful wall hammer today from my LFS's scratch and dent bin. It was only a few dollars, because it's heavily damaged, and it's worse than it initially appeared at the store. I'm not sure how best to treat it and I could use some advice. The tissue in the middle is completely gone, and there's rotting tissue at the edge of the healthy-looking area on both ends. I've cleaned it up as best I can, and for tonight I put the entire coral into the tank until I can figure out the best course of action.

Would it be better to cut through the healthy tissue and frag off a portion I know isn't rotting away, or should I leave well enough alone and not stress the coral further? I'm afraid if I take a chisel or dremel to it, the stress will be too much, but I'm equally concerned that if I leave things as they are, the rot will just continue on through the entire coral. Help!

Thanks for any thoughts

 

[demonsp]

Reduce main light time and leave alone. This may help.

http://www.asira.org/euphyllia(hammercoral)

 

[ACBlinky]

Hmm, that does help actually. I wonder if it's starving? It's partially open (the non-rotten portions, that is) after only a few hours, so it's not completely gone. I'll take it easy on the MH for the next week or two and try to target feed the hammer daily.

It's on the bottom of the tank, slightly shaded right now, and in moderate current. I didn't want it to receive too little water movement because I don't want dead tissue to rot on top of healthy areas, but it's by no means being blasted.

One problem that may surface, my mistake for not thinking of this, is there are a few leathers in the tank. I do run carbon periodically, but not 24/7; hopefully this will help, if not I have another tank I can move the hammer into -- I'd just have to pray the maroons don't think it's an anemone and try to adopt it as a host.