Elegance bail out

[Dragonboas]

Anyone know how long or what I would need to do to help an elegance regrow a new skeleton? I have a 3 mouth roughly 4inch long elegance that bailed out of it's skeleton. I got it in a package deal with a ton of other stuff and the guy told me it had bailed out a few weeks or so prior. I put it in a tupperware container in my tank to keep it from blowing around and left it alone. Every day I see it open up, puff out, etc and at night it closes down just like all the other corals but after about 5 weeks or so I checked on it and still no signs whatsoever of new skeletal growth. I started wondering it it's because it's in tupperware and maybe I need to put it in a breeder box with rubble like you would softies. Anyway, figured I'd ask here and see if anyone has some expertise on the matter. After at least 5 weeks since that's how long I've had it alone I figure it not dying is a darn good sign.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

I don't know much about the elegance coral but I have a hammer that did a bailout a year or 2 ago. It landed on a rock and has stayed there ever since. I don't think it has a skeleton (at least that I can see) and it hasn't grown any new heads either but it has gotten big! From around 1/2" to like 2.5" now

 

[Dragonboas]

Interesting. Well I think I'm going to try the rubble and treat it like a softie. See if it will attach lol.

 

[JumboShrimp]

I had an elegance coral about 7" long which bailed on me. I rubber-banded it to a section of rock for about a month, and it never took hold. I then put it in a few other rocky places, and finally on the tank's bare bottom. All it would ever do was as you described, puff up by day, shrink by night. It became nothing but a pain-- blowing around and finally breaking into smaller pieces (after several months.) It's a shame, because attached to it's skeleton it was very nice. ;Sour