Corals closed and losing flesh

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Hey I was wondering if I could get some help. So a few days I noticed a hammer of mine is losing flesh after a few months of having it but noticed it a few weeks ago and don’t know why. Also noticed another is closed and not open/puffy like it usually is just for two days so far. And my one of my frogspawns tentacles have shrunken but I’ve read they do that when splitting and it’s actually in the process if splitting now into three heads. All my other corals are doing great growing new heads and everything just don’t know what’s going on. My parameters seems ok doing a water change tomorrow. Any help would be great. My tanks is the fluval evo 13.5. Also retesting my magnesium tomorrow to be safe

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I'm curious on the flesh loss, is it receding or losing polyps?
Also, can you count how many mouths the hammer has?
Well I’ve watched it everyday for almost two weeks and it used to have more flesh around the skeleton. I think it has 2-3 mouths I’m not 100 percent positive and hasn’t lost any polyps that I’ve noticed
 
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Im going to say lack of nutrients is not good.
They need Po4 and Nitrate
Yea I’ve been looking into buying some Po4 just doing more research. I do a weekly water change to replenish everything since a have a few corals in my tank plus I also dose phytoplankton and Redsea+ after every WC
 
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