What wrong with my Aussie Hammer?

[aleok]

I got it about 4-5 months ago and it was huge! About a month ago it started retracting its tentacles and showing some skeleton. I thought maybe it was getting too much light and flow (which was not much at all) so i moved it to the sand bed in a corner. Now a week later it looks likes this. Everything else in the tank: sps, branding hammer, torch, duncan, brains, plates, are all doing great.
tanks 90 gallon
LED lights
all parameter are in check.

any ideas?

 

[reefer999]

Check if anyone is picking at it or have you noticed any brown jelly?

 

[aleok]

I don't believe anything is picking at it. All i have are two clowns, kole tang, anithias, and a blue damsel.

As far as brown jelly, i just noticed brown stringy stuff on it. It looks like its dying tenticals floating off. Should i treat it just to be safe? I don't want it to spread to my other corals.

Here are pics of what I'm talking about.

 

[reefer999]

Take it out and put it in a bucket get rid of all the loose flesh it has. Then give it a dip in iodine/lugols coral dip for a couple of minutes. Return it to the tank and put it in area where it will get a lot of flow to keep the brown jelly infection from latching on.

 

[jwoyshnar]

What I have found is they new very little flow. Their tissue rips easily and starts to rot away which looks just like what you have there

 

[organism]

That's pretty common with low alkalinity, what are your parameters? Also, you do want it getting low/moderate flow, just not too much light.

 

[sam3113]

I went through two frogspawn that did the same thing. Found out it was peppermint shrimp eating it when I came in the room one moening and busted them.

 

[SUPERSTOCKRACER]

hammers hate phosphates and nitrates.
mine are in high flow with halides and doing great!
except when they fall over on its tissue.

 

[michaelis88]

It's mostly done. It happened to two of my hammer and frogspawn. Tried diping, siphon, switch spots etc
But never returned

 

[aleok]

I took it out and noticed this soft brown crap stuff stuck on the side of the skeleton. I dipped it in iodine and scrapped off the brown crap. Hopefully it pulls through. I'll post an update when i know better.