Jack o lantern lepto done for?

[Born2beblack]

So i had posted a month or so ago about how im taking all my hermit crabs out, cause i caught my Halloween hermit eating my jack o lantern lepto and i had zoas go missing
Funny he choose that coral but anyways this is what he left for me to salvage
He cleaned the skin right off of it but in 3 tiny very tiny spots
Coral has stayed alive.. but yea think it will make it. I have a few photos of what is left. It hasnt grown back at all nothing. Ive dipped it once to make sure it was clean and since then i havent moved it from this spot
Maybe just needs time to figure stuff out. I spent a lot on this tiny thing lol so upset it happened like i have plenty of montis but no my only lepto which i really wanted

 

[Born2beblack]

For those about to ask for peremeters

Tank has date too and that is after the 3 month cycle

I also do my test every weekend

These are fridays results

 

[saltybees]

I’d leave it alone, might make a come back..cucs usually focus on dying tissue so it might have been having issues to begin with? Maybe too direct light, I like to hide frags on the edge of rock work when they’re not 100% happy until they start growing etc then move them more into light.

 

[Jeffcb]

Doesn't look good. leave it be for a little while.

 

[Born2beblack]

I’d leave it alone, might make a come back..cucs usually focus on dying tissue so it might have been having issues to begin with? Maybe too direct light, I like to hide frags on the edge of rock work when they’re not 100% happy until they start growing etc then move them more into light.

I had him not even a few days
It was in prime health
That crab i know eats corals
Caught him eating zoas to and i lost a mushroom once. No trust to the crab.
But it could have had some issues idk.
Light i can see for why it dudnt grow back quickly as i gave it to much. but i did catch that crab ripping pieces off it.

 

[X-37B]

Id just leave it and see what happens.
Here is a lepto that recovered from a pin head to this in a little over a year.
I too thought it was dead.
You can see the shape of the original frag.

 

[Born2beblack]

Doesn't look good. leave it be for a little while.

Maybe i just tuck it around the corner where it can get light and let it be

I dont put my hands in my tank much
But i have been moving this guy on the sand bed outta the way of my urchin

 

[Born2beblack]

Okay we gonna let him chill for a month
If my urchin gets him i will have to glue him
He has some coraline on the plug and my urchin wants it badly

 

[saltybees]

I had him not even a few days
It was in prime health
That crab i know eats corals
Caught him eating zoas to and i lost a mushroom once. No trust to the crab.
But it could have had some issues idk.
Light i can see for why it dudnt grow back quickly as i gave it to much. but i did catch that crab ripping pieces off it.

If it was only a few days old the light par could’ve stressed it, unless it came from under the same lights/par obviously. Good move getting that crab out of there though. Guess you’ll find out if it’ll make a come back! Hope it does, love jack o’s.

 

[HB AL]

As long as there is a little bit of live coral left its very possible it will start growing back.

 

[Born2beblack]

Yea im starting to think my light coukd have been it
I do start my corals on the sub for a few days and move them up with time at night to so its not a shook
But i think maybe this guy was sensitive and the crab took adventage of that

Fun fact
Istill have the crab he now has his own pico tank with his scarlet hermit army.
They are pretty cool tbh i love inverts

Thansk for all the help
Ill re post in afew weeks or months
Maybe if im lucky my zoa rocks will have some lepto on it

 

[Trouble1375]

I had a frag that I thought was dead (no color left at all). Kind of forgot about it and noticed a week or so ago that it appeared to have color so I took it out of it's hidey spot and found it has a pencil eraser size bit of life so I put it with my other lepto frags and am letting it do it's thing. Now I have a graveyard where I put things that appear to have died and I check periodically to see if there is any life.

 

[Born2beblack]

I had a frag that I thought was dead (no color left at all). Kind of forgot about it and noticed a week or so ago that it appeared to have color so I took it out of it's hidey spot and found it has a pencil eraser size bit of life so I put it with my other lepto frags and am letting it do it's thing. Now I have a graveyard where I put things that appear to have died and I check periodically to see if there is any life.

Yea it made it luckily
Still small