Is my hammer coral dead?

[Missingsymphony]

Hi, I always googled for answers about anything that had to do with my new aquarium (and hobby) but I couldn't find anything that looked how my coral does now, I bought a red sea kit and all the chemical levels seem fine, salinity and temp are fine too, I did try and relocate it once and it broke off from the clay I used to stick it on the live rock and when I did like 1/4 of its head flew off everywhere and a chunk of the bottom skeleton breaking off, it was fine for a week after that then it looked like the after picture provided, fishes and everything else seem to be doing fine

 

[Reefer5640]

Yep sorry. It’s gone

 

[Missingsymphony]

Yep sorry. It’s gone

Awww I kinda figured but wanted to be sure, how come every once in a while does it look like it's pooping? Like the stringy brown stuff coming out or is it just decomposing?

 

[Reefer5640]

Yeah it’s just melting off what’s left

 

[Missingsymphony]

Yeah it’s just melting off what’s left

Awww dang :<, Thanks for letting me know, I could not find any answers for a while so I been leaving it my tank like that till I was 100% sure, ill be removing tomorrow, thanks again for the help

 

[fragit]

Keep the skeleton I had one go through 6 days of 58 degree water a couple years ago in a power outage. Well that sucker made a couple babies during the stress and is still alive. You never know!

 

[Alexopora]

Awww I kinda figured but wanted to be sure, how come every once in a while does it look like it's pooping? Like the stringy brown stuff coming out or is it just decomposing?

Decomposing. When you take it out, it should have a strong smelly sea smell. That’s the scent of decomposition.

 

[Missingsymphony]

Thanks for the replies, I took it out yesterday, my aquarium kinda got a little too natural, got algae growing everywhere and little tiny white specs (living) covering every inch of my aquarium, think the dead coral I had inside was a food fest, im not sure

 

[HKmongoose77]

Sorry for your loss hammers are my favorite coral.