Do I Need to Treat My Elegance?

[bale31]

I'd like to introduce you all to Christina, my Elegance. Here she is in all her glory.

So, I made a big boo boo about 3 months ago. When I was doing a water change, like a responsible person would. Unfortunately, I made a mistake when I was dumping the water in and had some salt in the bottom of the bucket. I didn't realize it and I dumped it directly on her. One of polyps completely got burned and died off. Over the next few days, the skin decayed. I was able to get most of it off and it made the nitrates in the tank sky rocket. I was able to get it under control without losing any more corals (although I did lose a couple of fish). She looked a bit rough for a while, but as you can see has mostly recovered. I was worried that she would completely die, but it seems to only be the one polyp.

I also took a picture right after the lights went on so I could see the part of the skeleton that is dead and uncovered as you can see below.

My questioin to all this is, do I need to do anything protect the rest of the tissue? Or can I just leave it. I have seen a crab or two try to crawl into the "cave", but the sand got piled up next to her so nothing could get in. I just want to make sure that i protect her so she doesn't have any more damage.

Any advice?

 

[dedragon]

Try to get the sand out of the skeleton of the coral, it wont help it recover. Also bring the coral out of the sand so the top of the skeleton can fully open. Here is mine with its snail graveyard (this thing is now giant and commits full on snail genocide), you can see the side I have let sink down too close to the sand and now is showing too much skeleton. I need to lift mine up as well, but mine is pretty old and super hardy at this point so im in no rush

 

[dedragon]

mine had to be banished to the back corner as it is well over 14 inches in diameter and a hazard to any corals near it

 

[bale31]

Try to get the sand out of the skeleton of the coral, it wont help it recover. Also bring the coral out of the sand so the top of the skeleton can fully open. Here is mine with its snail graveyard (this thing is now giant and commits full on snail genocide), you can see the side I have let sink down too close to the sand and now is showing too much skeleton. I need to lift mine up as well, but mine is pretty old and super hardy at this point so im in no rush

Thank you for this, she's looking great.