My Bubble Coral fell of its skeleton HELP

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Help! I went to meet be my bubble coral (which looked great!) to a bucket so i could add dang to my tank and when i pick it up if flopped to the side and fell completely off its skeleton!!! What can i do or is it a goner. It is currently in a box in my tank with basically no flow and is still bright green and a little bubbly. The pic attached is 24hrs after it happened
 

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Help! I went to meet be my bubble coral (which looked great!) to a bucket so i could add dang to my tank and when i pick it up if flopped to the side and fell completely off its skeleton!!! What can i do or is it a goner. It is currently in a box in my tank with basically no flow and is still bright green and a little bubbly. The pic attached is 24hrs after it happened
Um, need to see the pic.
Bubble coral? Bubble tip anenome?
Candy cane?
Real need to see the pic.
 
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This is 48 hours after, the skeleton is in the box to the left!
 

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What happens if you place the coral atop it's skeletal base and just leave it there in the water box?
 

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It didn't fell off. It was torn out of it's skelaton by improper handling.

The only thing you can do was 1) do not remove the skeleton from water and there was a chance it will regrow a new bubble in it. 2) leave the polyp in low flow, low light and it May Eventually start growing new skeleton under it.

With hammers, this takes at least 6 months. It doesn't look good for you, unfortunately.
 
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It didn't fell off. It was torn out of it's skelaton by improper handling.

The only thing you can do was 1) do not remove the skeleton from water and there was a chance it will regrow a new bubble in it. 2) leave the polyp in low flow, low light and it May Eventually start growing new skeleton under it.

With hammers, this takes at least 6 months. It doesn't look good for you, unfortunately.
The bubbles are still quite big now do you think there is any chance to reconnect it?
 
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It didn't fell off. It was torn out of it's skelaton by improper handling.

The only thing you can do was 1) do not remove the skeleton from water and there was a chance it will regrow a new bubble in it. 2) leave the polyp in low flow, low light and it May Eventually start growing new skeleton under it.

With hammers, this takes at least 6 months. It doesn't look good for you, unfortunately.
 

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No. It will not reconnect to the skelaton.

If it's going to live, which is a very big if, it'll need to regrow a new skeleton which is a very long process.
This is what it looks like currently.
 

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No. It will not reconnect to the skelaton.

If it's going to live, which is a very big if, it'll need to regrow a new skeleton which is a very long process.
No. It will not reconnect to the skelaton.

If it's going to live, which is a very big if, it'll need to regrow a new skeleton which is a very long process.
This is what it looks like currently
 

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I tried to but it just falls off, do you have a suggestion on how to keep it on there?
Unfortunately no, I was just thinking about mushroom corals becoming detached from their base. People put the coral and base in a small cup encouraging it to re attach itself.
 
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Unfortunately no, I was just thinking about mushroom corals becoming detached from their base. People put the coral and base in a small cup encouraging it to re attach itself.
We will see if it works, i will send an update soon!
 

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Honestly.. don’t be hard on yourself. Now you know for next time.. lesson learned the hard way lol I’d throw it out before it spoils the rest of tank my firm opinion.
 

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