HELP! URGENT! Please tell me what's happening!

[DogDoc]

I came home at lunch to see my hammer coral doing this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v680/ctdogdoc/DSCN2453Medium.jpg

I was upset, but hoped it might be something good. Tonight it's doing this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v680/ctdogdoc/DSCN2462Medium.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v680/ctdogdoc/DSCN2460Medium.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v680/ctdogdoc/DSCN2455Medium.jpg

What's happening!!!!!! I'm terribly upset. It looks like it's crapping the bed. This coral has been in this tank for two years and up until today has been one of my most beautiful corals. If you've read my thread recently on water testing - you'll know I just did a bunch of water changes, but the salinity, pH, alk, etc - is all normal. No known problems and it's the ONLY coral to be troubled.

HELP HELP HELP - This is one of my favorites!

Aaron

[feeesh]

It looks like it might be on the way out to me. You can try a few things to save it, but it's tough with the big fleshy polyped corals like that. You can break the skeleton into the good tissue. You can also try a lugols dip in case it's some sort of infection.

However, these things may not work and the coral might already be too far gone. I would try the lugols before the breaking. I have seen many a hundreds of hammer skeletons in wholesalers tanks with much of the polyp gone and only a little bit left so it might not be a total loss.

Good luck.

[coralismycrak]

my frogspawn did that and never really came back. but its still there

[Shoestring Reefer]

Wow, that's too bad.

[Bruce]

I'm surprised you got two years out of your hammer. That's not a swipe at your husbandry, but at that species of coral. I think they all do that at some point, its just to what degree. I would try feeesh's intervention, you may get lucky.

Good luck,

Bruce