Euphyllia salvageable or too far gone?

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Due to an unfortunate kalkwasser mishap, the alkalinity in my office tank at work spiked last week. I was out of the office for a couple of days and an ATO issue caused a kalk overdose. I became aware of the event around 36 hours after it occurred, and at that time my Alk was 13. This is a sharp/rapid increase from my normal baseline of about 8.9. Calcium was bumped up a bit too (475) but I’m thinking that’s likely not as damaging of a change from the normal level (440.)

The two most significant casualties were a fungia plate coral I had added a few months ago and a decent size frogspawn.

The plate coral looks like a goner:
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What I’m really wondering is whether this Frogspawn is also toast. I really love this coral and I’m trying to determine whether it’s likely to bounce back from this or not.


As of today parameters are:

Temp 80.2
Salinity 1.025
pH 8.2
Alk 11.9 (I’m slowly decreasing it)
Nitrate 2.5
Phos 0.14
Calcium 450
Mag 1320

Thank you!
 
Not gonna lie, that thing looks like its been toast for a while now- Plate coral

The frogspawn is suffering from a bacterial infection most likely.
 

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