Chalice coral - removing dead spots.

[crewsfish]

Question. I have a chalice coral that died off all but 2 eyes months ago. Those 2 eyes have been resilient. My question is, wouls it be best to cut away the old dead skeleton? Curious if it would grown better new skeleton or over old.

 

[KrisReef]

Sometimes that will work out, but often the new life will form a new plate above the old one that isn't attached. I think it depends on the water flow, light, and the corals always do what they want. IF the old skelton is huge I often cut away the old so it doesn't grow algae that might interfere with the new growth. Glad you have a few eyes still holding on to life.