Trachyphlliidea Issues

[Jessy]

Well,
As much as it pains me to admit that i'm having issues with a coral, I want to help anyone else out that may have the same issues so I'm going to post it out there for all to see.

I got the most awesome green brain coral from Jasper at the swap down at harolds place not too long ago.

Recent
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h114/JessyCat77/CRW_3119-2.jpg

Older
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h114/JessyCat77/DSC02099.jpg

you can even see from these two images that there has been noticeable deflation... and it has gotten worse.

There was a small dead part on the coral when I first got it, and it has almost degraded to a full "head" gone on the back side, and now i've noticed that the head next to it is showing teeth (septa) through the skin. I'm also getting cyano algae build up on the old skeleton.. I know enough to keep that blown off.

The coral right now is no longer opening for food. I'm hoping to figure out something soon. And I'm reading up on them on WWM. Here's the link below.


http://www.wetwebmedia.com/trachyphlliidae.htm

[Jessy]

Additional Info: I forgot to mention that my black clown took to hosting the darn thing and I know that irritation can't be good for it. Just moved the coral to the other side of my tank hoping that the clown will be too stupid to follow.

[nahtanoj]

from my experience with these guys, its tough to bring them back when they start on a down trend. i had one that got photoshock and i saved it by shading it, then a few months later when it was happy as could be a sps fell on it, stinging just the edge of it, and in a week it was dead.
my friend had one just melt for no apparent reason as well.
i hope someone can chime in with some useful information to save this guy.