Accidentally cut off torch tentacles

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Hey, so I was moving my nuclear green torch as I placed it in an area with to much flow. When moving it I slipped slamming my finger into it accidentally cutting off 5-8 tentacles at the tips. It’s currently partially retracted. What is the likely hood of it coming back from this healthy?
 

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Hey, so I was moving my nuclear green torch as I placed it in an area with to much flow. When moving it I slipped slamming my finger into it accidentally cutting off 5-8 tentacles at the tips. It’s currently partially retracted. What is the likely hood of it coming back from this healthy?

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It will be fine. My frogspawn ditches tentacles all the time if I accidentally touch it while scrubbing the glass, or even just by moving the scrubber too fast past it. And then it heals like nothing happened. Hammets do it too, just a lot less often.
 

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No problem; to be honest, I have "trimmed" my torches back a little when they became too aggressive and started a war with other corals. I don't think you can hurt them even by hitting with a steel pipe once they become established.
 
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All the years I have had torches I’ve never lost tentacles or at least noticed. Pretty neat I did not know they could be trimmed.
 

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Lol, my version of "polyp bailout" wouldn't necessarily recommend unless you are desperate as I was - couldn't move either coral. This situation may not end well either.

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