Button Brain recovery question

[Chris C]

Hi, I saw a beautiful pink button brain coral in LFS the other day. But unfortunately a small part of it was stung and the skeleton is exposed (if you think if it as a clock, about 1/12 of it). Would that bit of tissue ever grow back onto the skeleton? Cheers

 

[Macdaddynick1]

if its not currently receding and if it doesn't have a brown jelly disease then it will form a new skeleton that will eventually become perfectly round, but it will not encrust back onto the dead spot

 

[Chris C]

No it doesn't have brown jelly. Ok so would the dead spot be in the way? Should I clip it off so it could grow "rounder"?

 

[Macdaddynick1]

if you have a dremmel or a bandsaw you can cut it but only when the coral actually starts growing back , i.e when its healthy, Im also not familiar with the shape of the skeleton , if its anything like the button coral i wouldn't worry about it , since the skeleton inside is usually round, but if the skeleton has spikes on it like scollymia*, then you should cut it because the new growth usually ends up being cut on the spikes. Otherwise the current skeleton is no longer an issue this coral will make absolutely new skeleton structure without any regard to its dead part.