is this brown jelly?

[shoelevy]

its very saddening to see my hammer which has been with me for 5mths suddenly wither away

i now believe its got sth to do with high no3...50ppm...since another 2 of my corals are browning...have applied AZ no3 and keeping fingers crossed

while checking out the hammer, i saw this brown substance that's growing close to the areas where the flesh starts to recede

i wasn't able to find many photos on the internet on what brown jelly looks like so i'm posting some photos here

i hope someone can help me confirm if its brown jelly that my hammer was facing

i've also snipped awae the heads that had this brown substance leaving behind only 2 healthy heads...

[shoelevy]

a closed in shot on one of the heads

[shoelevy]

one of the dead heads that i snipped off

[damien]

Ur pict looks more like sponge. If u touch it, does it feel hard?

Brown jelly looks just like slime and it's always on the retracted tentacles.

some info here,

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-06/eb/ (Brown Jelly Bugs)

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-12/eb/ (Myth 11: Brown jelly)

http://www.athiel.com/lib/bacterial.html

http://www.google.com.sg/search?q=brown%20...:en&sa=N&tab=iw