Bets on whether this coral bounces back!

[JoJosReef]

This blasto has been going downhill for about two weeks, and bubble algae was taking over on the exposed skeleton. In response, I picked it up and plopped it down right in front of my pitho crab, who cleaned it and left the rest to its destiny. I plan on leaving it where it is and see what happens. What do you think its fate will be?
Edit: much better with a photo

 

[Crabs McJones]

I still see healthy heads, I have high hopes!

 

[exnisstech]

I hope it makes it but I voted toast because if it was in my tank that would be the case. I have a terrible record of saving pieces when they start going south. I've had a little luck moving them to another tank and they bounce back.

 

[tbrown]

I doubt that one or two heads there will make it back but I've actually had one come back from worse.

 

[darrick001]

That depends on what caused the issue and if the issue is resolved. I would dip it in Revive just in case it's lps eating worms. If it's not and If you have more lps that are looking poor check for stray voltage usually a heater or wave pump.

 

[KrisReef]

Once the mushroom realizes that it has a new neighbor it will reach out and finish off whatever the crab didn’t eat.

 

[mfinn]

If there is color left on the skeleton, there is always room for hope, and as pointed out as long as the reason for the decline has been mitigated.
I recently had a large favia that was down to 2-3 heads, come back to life and is now a 6" dia. colony

 

[JoJosReef]

Monday update:

Not quite dead yet!

 

[Biokabe]

If you can get it up on the rockwork with reasonable flow and appropriate lighting, I think there's high hopes for that coral. In the sandbed... not so much.

I have a blasto that, at one point was down to one or two heads, about the size of a thumbnail. It didn't look long for this world on my frag rack. So, on a lark, I mounted it on one of my rocks. It was out of the full blast of flow, and while it was high up on the rockwork, it was shaded by my toadstool, so it wasn't being overwhelmed with massive light.

It's now one of the best corals in my tank, easily 20+ heads with great extension during the day. I should have a picture of it on my home computer, I'll see if I can upload it later tonight.

 

[Biokabe]

Here's my blasto as of last week:

When I put it there, it looked worse than your blasto does now - most of its skeleton was exposed and covered in algae, and it had at most 3-4 living heads.

 

[JoJosReef]

Blasto hanging in there. I plan to remount it this week in a lower flow/light area.