Can I revive a bubble coral?

[wj74]

Hi all, been reading this site for a while - 9 months in on a marine tank after about 20 with a freshwater. I have many questions but for now I’m worried about my expensive bubble coral. It was beautiful however when we were away on vacation last week (we had house sitters for the dog and fish) my goby/shrimp decided to move locations and buried the coral. I had to dig around to find it. Anyway I think it was buried for a number of days and now it’s just a skeleton but some green still in there. Any hope getting this back or do I need a new one? Pic attached I think. Also this pink one was knocked over, it used to have long tentacles but since looks like the pic. Any advice would be great thanks! And yes, having a bit of an algae outbreak but it’s getting better.

 

[TX_REEF]

The first one looks like a goner. Second might have hope, just wait and see.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Pleogyra is dead, you can try leaving the skeleton in the tank to see if any tissue regrows though I've really only seen that kind of recovery on hammers.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

I'd say the goni will recover as long as you have good water parameters and don't bother it

 

[wj74]

Ok thanks - that’s what I was afraid of. Too bad - it was spectacular! Say just another quick question - I have that green grass ish coral too, it’s grown a lot and has fingers stretching off the rock horizontally. Do I clip this and glue it to the rock?

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Ok thanks - that’s what I was afraid of. Too bad - it was spectacular! Say just another quick question - I have that green grass ish coral too, it’s grown a lot and has fingers stretching off the rock horizontally. Do I clip this and glue it to the rock?

Photo? Can't give an ID without a pic

 

[wj74]

Photo? Can't give an ID without a pic

Sorry I’ll have to send tmr morning - my light is on a timer and went to night mode, the coral is retracted. I think you can see the outcrops I’m talking about here tho:

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Sorry I’ll have to send tmr morning - my light is on a timer and went to night mode, the coral is retracted. I think you can see the outcrops I’m talking about here tho:

The branching one or the encrusting one?

 

[wj74]

The branching one or the encrusting one?

This green one here - I thought it would follow the contour of the rock but it’s growing horizontally- just wondering if I let it go, clip it and glue elsewhere or just bend it and glue. Thanks!

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

This green one here - I thought it would follow the contour of the rock but it’s growing horizontally- just wondering if I let it go, clip it and glue elsewhere or just bend it and glue. Thanks!

Do whatever you want, just fine growing like that however if you want to trim it you can. That is GSP, almost impossible to kill and grows quite quickly, you can do whatever is best in your situation