I think my coral is broken

[Taxus812]

i had a flow problem with a broken flow pump while I was on vacation. My candy cane which used to be happy shrank and did not extend at night. I seen some hair algae growing heavy on the stocks and decided to clean it. To my horror the green tops disintegrated leaving almost nothing there. I just went upstairs to look at it and found this fuzz.


Did I destroy my coral cleaning it ?

 

[TheHarold]

Yes, it may have destroyed it. Coral is fragile; you can’t scrub at the flesh.

 

[Bayareareefer18]

Had a similar thing happen with a blasto. It looked like its mouth was gaping. I waved my hand in front of it and all the flesh just disappeared. It's like it melted but the flesh just sat there fully colored

 

[Alex's Nano Reef]

did you directly scrub the fleshy part or just the stalk of the coral and how far up the stalk did you scrub if so...

 

[Taxus812]

did you directly scrub the fleshy part or just the stalk of the coral and how far up the stalk did you scrub if so...

The stalk mostly. The top kinda just fell away.

 

[Marco S]

I made the mistake of blasting my Blastomussa when feeding it and the flesh came off four of the heads. I felt so horrible, but over the last few weeks it has started to grow back and it is now looking pretty good! You live and learn and I will be more careful from now on.

Here is a pic of my recovering Blasto:

Hopefully your coral recovers and you have learned to be more careful when handling it in the future.

 

[Taxus812]

Just an update. It did recover. Now I have to figure out how to get the GHA off of it without damaging it again.