Why is my hammer dieing?!!!

[werd]

I have a 34 gallon solana tank. Its been set up for almost 3 years now and has gone through all kinds of screw ups and bad husbandry. This hammer was the first coral i purchaced and has always pulled through. So why now that i think i have everything running smoothly is it slowly loosing heads?
water params are perfect
sg 1.026
temp 79+/- 1deg
cal 420
alk 9 dkh
ph 8.0
no3 .25 ppm
mag 1360
i just finished testing bout 5 min ago so these r current numbers
using red sea test kits for mag/ no3/ ph
api for the rest
any ideas would be apreciated. thanks everyone
i haven't moved it from its origonal spot or made any recent lighting changes

 

[Tripod1404]

what is your phosphate?

 

[werd]

i guess i skipped over that one its around .02.
its really hard to tell on the red sea kit but definitely close to that

 

[werd]

i guess no ideas? cuz thats what i got.

 

[Ramracer32]

with the heads being lost does it look like a parasite could be eating it? I have seen a friends tank have the same thing happen and the damage was going on during lights out.

 

[werd]

i guess i will try a coral dip. thats really the only thing i havent done.

 

[Reefpuck]

Pic might help.

 

[werd]

I tried to yesterday. It wouldn't up load off my phone for some reason

 

[Ncord]

Had a wall hammer I have for 6 years die on me when I up graded my tank and left him with LFS as tanks cycled. Never found the cause, I even cut back some of it trying to control the death. Dip it in iodine and separate it from your other corals in case you have a outbrake.

. Sorry to say if it looks like this you're more then likely going to lose it.


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