help with hammer coral

[currentking]

I have a tank that has a few frogspawns, and they are all doing very well. All of them have babies forming but my hammer is dying fast. There is nothing touching it and no discoloration. everything is doing so well except for the hammer. any ideas?

 

[2OceanLovers]

Does there seem to be a brown jelley forming on the dying parts? If so, get him out of there fast so he doesn't take your frogs with him. What are the params? What lighting is he under?

 

[currentking]

there is no jelly, it looks like a brown hair algae growing where the dying parts are. I have 150w 20k hailides. there are no nitrites, nitrates are about 30, calcium is about 400, ph fluctuates from 8.1-8.5 throughout the day. thanks for the help.

 

[Illuminati]

I had a clown that would host in the hammer so much it killed it and I had a friend with some camel shrimp that ate her hammer. Could something be irritating or eating it?

How's the flow? Is it getting blasted?

 

[currentking]

threre is no barely any flow there, I think that may be the problem, but when I goto the local store, they have NO flow on thier hammers.

 

[elegance coral]

Flow is not the problem. They can be very happy with just a slight flow. If it is a branching form cut the bad branches off and discard them. If it is a wall form you will need to cut into the healthy tissue just past the line of decomposiition and down through the skeleton. Dip the rest of the animal in an iodine solution and pray. Good luck.