Scoly Tried Eating Snail - Got Damaged

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Anyone have this happen before? I don’t think there’s much to do, other than keep parameters stable, feed it, and wait, but man it’s a bummer.

I found a nassarius sticking out of my Scoly a little while ago. I would’ve just left it to spit it back out, but the point of its shell had poked a hole through the side of the mouth, so I pulled it out. The damage isn’t terrible, but it lost a decent chunk of flesh.

Anyone see this before? Did it heal up okay?
 
Not too much to see, but you can kind of tell that the mouth isn’t properly closed, and the tear is to the left of the mouth.
 

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It'll be completely fine.
I've seen scollys come back from 3/4 of flesh gone.
I really hope you’re right. I imagine it will be, and maybe it just needs more time, but it just spit out all the food I gave it :/
 
Greeeeeat. Just to make things worse, a few of my fish are picking at the damaged Scoly. Thankfully, I have a mushroom box I can put him in. Hopefully he does well in there for a few weeks.

Yeesh.
 

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