Damaged coral

[Ariel'sMom]

Last night I was doing maintenance on my tank. At the end, I was blowing off my rocks and then noticed my coral had bent over. I tried to straighten it and the top broke off. This picture is what it looks like this morning. Is there anything I can do for this little guy?
Thank you!

 

[j.falk]

It could be leaning towards the light or to where it can get more or less flow.

 

[Stephen Glover]

Toadstools are very top heavy so give it some support on the bottom. It will eventually attach to your live rock.

 

[Ariel'sMom]

Toadstools are very top heavy so give it some support on the bottom. It will eventually attach to your live rock.

Thank you. Should I use reef glue to glue the top piece to rock??

 

[Tired]

I wouldn't worry about gluing it, it'll attach on its own. Glue can certainly work, but will irritate it a bit, so it's better to avoid glue for soft corals if that can easily be done.

 

[Auto-pilot]

Thank you. Should I use reef glue to glue the top piece to rock??

Glue doesn't really work with softies. If it's doing good it will eventually grow back to the Rock. I've used rubber bands to encourage this process. I have some big softies and to frag them I usually just take a razor blade chop it apart and attach the frags to a small peices of rubble. Eventually they grow into the rubble and then I glue the small rock to the larger substrate. You can probably do the same if it's not attaching where you want it. You can lightly rubber band a small rock to it's stalk, after it attaches you can glue it wherever you desire.

 

[Sleeping Giant]

lightly use a rubber band and a rock, it will attach, then you can remove the band.

 

[Ariel'sMom]

Thank you. Should I use reef glue to glue the top piece to rock??

Glue doesn't really work with softies. If it's doing good it will eventually grow back to the Rock. I've used rubber bands to encourage this process. I have some big softies and to frag them I usually just take a razor blade chop it apart and attach the frags to a small peices of rubble. Eventually they grow into the rubble and then I glue the small rock to the larger substrate. You can probably do the same if it's not attaching where you want it. You can lightly rubber band a small rock to it's stalk, after it attaches you can glue it wherever you desire.

Thanks! I’m going to give it a try!