Goegonia recovering or dying?

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I had an event in my tank that stressed all my coral. Unsure if it was too much light, an alk drop, or when i added a bag if carbon that hadnt been rinsed well enough. Or left a bag of carbon in too long. it released a lot of black powder into the tank. This was all about 3-4 months ago. My second most stressed coral was a ricordea that bleached but it still takes food.

The gorgonia lost the brown on its polyps and I think i can see some skeleton. but it hasnt done much more than look like this. Is it dead? Recovering? Is there anything that will help it along?

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Polyps are extended, that’s a good sign. Gorgonians like some flow for constant feeding.
I target feed it reef roids once a week but cant tell if the polyps are reacting to it. I have it in the highest flow spot in the tank.
 
I moved it lower but still in high flow. It's looking worse. The flesh looks like its stripping off now. A piece of flesh is flopping down where its falling off.

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My pink cabbage coral just shed. Would that kill it? I am running carbon that I replaced 3 days ago. All other coral look happy.
 
Should I remove it at this point? It had a long wire with no flesh on the top that i cut off and it just looks awful.

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