Keep or Trash

[OrangeFaucett10]

My tanks recovering from a bad time. I lost a lot of SPS to receding skin. My colony of red planet is 90% dead. Now that I’ve corrected the issue, the receding has stopped leaving 10% alive.

I had something similar to this happen before and the red planet quickly recovered and grew of the dead skeleton. So my question is do I hack all of the old off or allow it to recover over the dead skeleton if that’s possible? Pros cons?

 

[Arthacker87]

I'm not an expert but is say until you are definite its dead to leave it and see what happens. Might be easier to grow over than build a while new skeleton

 

[P-Dub]

I'm a proponent of hacking off all the good tissue and discarding much of the old dead skeleton. Re-affix with whatever adhesive you like. Trying to allow the new tissue to grow over the old dead skeleton will be a mixed bag of success with some never covering the dead areas and ending up not as aesthetically pleasing. Your final specimen will have areas of coverage and areas with none leaving it looking blotchy.

 

[Bob Weigant]

If it was mine I would cut off all the dead parts

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Remove the dead.

 

[kevin_e]

Cut and frag imo. It will regrow oddly from itslef if you dont. Also dead coral always seems like a great place for alage to take hold.