Help after hammer bailout

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Hello!
I am new to the hobby. I unfortunately had an alkalinity spike and believe I caused my branching hammer to bailout. I currently have my water parameters under control. My hammer had one last piece of flesh remaining. I read in another forum to put it in a shot glass with sand and see if it can regrow. Yesterday I placed it in the middle of the glass and today I woke up to it moved to the edge of the shot glass and has partially buried itself. I don’t see how it could have did this. Is this good, perhaps a sign of it trying to grow? Any advice on how I could keep it growing or just give up would be so appreciated! Please see photos of it yesterday and today. Thank you!
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IMHO, it's best left to do it's thing. If you keep changing the environment, I don't think it will have a chance.
 
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:( such a bummer. Ours was a very slow death. Painful to watch, haha.
 

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