help i cut my candy cane coral

[nanonøkk]

ok so i was trying to flip my flipper scrapper and i cut my polyp of candy cane coral ope and i’m scare rn and i’m freaking out what do i do here’s a picture of it

 

[Bfragale]

Hello. All you can do is wait and see what happens. You could do a iodine dip to help with any infection, but I don’t k ow of much else.
It could be fine and heal, but only time will tell.

good luck and HAPPY REEFING!

 

[nanonøkk]

Hello. All you can do is wait and see what happens. You could do a iodine dip to help with any infection, but I don’t k ow of much else.
It could be fine and heal, but only time will tell.

good luck and HAPPY REEFING!

ok thanks for the help

 

[Brad Waddell Wrath's Reef]

It will be fine, I had a candy cane get hit with to much flow and rip. It healed up no problem.

 

[Tankkeepers]

I agree with above post only time will tell as long as it's kept happy and healthy it'll more then likly be ok

 

[Hincapiej4]

Usually if there is flesh and a mouth..it'll be fine. Corals can regenerate, remember, they procreate by splitting, etc

 

[KrisReef]

I can't see any death-knell damage on the one head that is inflated. If it stays looking like that I think it will be fine?
What you can do is be careful with the flipper! I quit using magnets and got a long handled scraper. I still hit things with it but it's not as random as a loose magnet, ime.

 

[nanonøkk]

I agree with above post only time will tell as long as it's kept happy and healthy it'll more then likly be ok

ok i think it’s pretty healthy because it recently started to split

 

[nanonøkk]

Usually if there is flesh and a mouth..it'll be fine. Corals can regenerate, remember, they procreate by splitting, etc

ok i just got really worried

 

[nanonøkk]

I can't see any death-knell damage on the one head that is inflated. If it stays looking like that I think it will be fine?
What you can do is be careful with the flipper! I quit using magnets and got a long handled scraper. I still hit things with it but it's not as random as a loose magnet, ime.

yea this is the last time i flip it in the tank i think

 

[LeftyReefer]

Your candy cane coral sure has been through a lot in it's short life. :oops:

 

[nanonøkk]

Your candy cane coral sure has been through a lot in it's short life. :oops:

it really hasn’t it just started to start to split a few a while ago the only other thing it went through is the skeleton cracked when i first got it a few months ago

 

[Tankkeepers]

What dosent kill you makes you stronger

 

[Tankkeepers]

I used to know a guy that woukd saw lps in half using a band saw and somehow got the to live no clue how he did it tho

 

[Tankkeepers]

He always told me the key was to saw directly threw the mouth so each half still had one once it recovered I told him thats way outta my skill set

 

[nanonøkk]

I used to know a guy that woukd saw lps in half using a band saw and somehow got the to live no clue how he did it tho

i’ve seen some people do that it scares me and as long as the mouth is ok it’ll be fine right because it only to the fleshy part and not the mouth area

 

[KrisReef]

it really hasn’t it just started to start to split a few a while ago the only other thing it went through is the skeleton cracked when i first got it a few months ago

Oh, then your coral is already a proven survivor. I think it could grow to be 3-5 heads before Christmas if you are feeding it?

 

[nanonøkk]

Oh, then your coral is already a proven survivor. I think it could grow to be 3-5 heads before Christmas if you are feeding it?

yea i feed all my corals at the start of the week and the end of the week

 

[Hincapiej4]

Let me know you show something. When I first transferred them into this tank, a little bit after, they get REAL mad. Shrivelled. I got scared, but just kept doing water changes and testing the water, gettting it stable. I got all those candies from much smaller to what you see there. And now, they are even more plump and growing. The sign of a candie ACTUALLY dieing, is if it's melting off the skeleton. THEN it's dead or dying.

 

[nanonøkk]

Let me know you show something. When I first transferred them into this tank, a little bit after, they get REAL mad. Shrivelled. I got scared, but just kept doing water changes and testing the water, gettting it stable. I got all those candies from much smaller to what you see there. And now, they are even more plump and growing. The sign of a candie ACTUALLY dieing, is if it's melting off the skeleton. THEN it's dead or dying.

ok so my tanks stable so i should just let it be right