Recovering Hammer coral care

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After my tank had a minor crash when my decorator crab went on a killing spree, killing all my starfish and sexy shrimp overnight, I lost a few corals, but most survived and have recovered. The only one that survived but never really recovered was my hammer coral. It lost most of it's tentacles and bleached, but regained some flesh and a lot of color after about two weeks. Since then there has been little to no change. My question is do hammer corals grow their tentacles back in their skeleton, or will it always look sad, even if it survived?

Tank size: 55 gal
Temp: 78
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 2
Calc: 420
Alk: 8.3
Mag: 1260

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As long as its polyps dont bail out it´s got a chance...low flow.... most likely it will grow a new skeleton between the old ones, and the later will become lumps or a base for a bigger branch, it will take time tough
 

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The one is barely hanging in there but still has hope. It would likely start growing up from there, it won't refill the old skeleton.
 

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Had something similar occur in my tank with my frogspawn. What happens if the tentacles all bail out? Lost cause?
 
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What should I be feeding it to help it along? The bits that are left are too small for brine or mysis, will they take oyster eggs? or is there something better to give them until they regain proper skeletons and size?
 

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I personally wouldn't target feed that at all until it regrew a full head. Just feed your tank with reef roids or some plankton type food and let it grab what it wants. It probably doesn't have a full mouth so it won't be able to do anything with meaty foods.
 

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