Any chance this Heteroxenia Polyp can make it?

[aurora.k]

Hi all -

I got some corals delivered yesterday from LiveAquaria. Everything is looking awesome except for this guy who had become disconnected from the styrofoam during shipping and was bouncing on the bottom of the bag and now is really sad:

Other than maintaining good water quality, is there anything I can do to help this guy recover? Could it still bounce back? Other corals looking great, a bubble coral made it beautifully and opened up last night.

PS I'm still new to the forum, but I know a lot of folks are pro LFS - but I only want aquacultured stuff which is harder to find with good variety locally.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

IME leather corals can and will look really rough after being moved around and/or fragged. I'd give it a couple of days to shape up

 

[aurora.k]

Thank you!! I will!

 

[p@blo]

Stable ph and good flow xenia should be able to bounce back

 

[PmCarbrey]

I've had these things live through copper before, it'll bounce back, they're indestructible