L. vitiensis question

[eyesolator]

I recently got this L. vitiensis from my LFS. The shipment arrived very cold and it began to stn shortly after placing it in my tank. STN seems to have stopped and it is doing fine. My question is should I cut off the exposed skeleton of will the flesh grow back over the top of it?
Thanks
John

 

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Have you dipped it in any thing? I have found and been told that a dip can help a coral heal. As far as covering the skeleton, IMO it can as long as the skeleton doesn’t get algae growing on it.

 

[Nano sapiens]

I have a very similar situation with a wild Blastomussa vivida frag. I dipped the rock base (not the polyps) in H2O2 to kill off algae and then placed it in an appropriate location for the species (low medium light, lower flow). I very lightly feed the coral with the leftover juice from my frozen food feeding twice a week. In my case, it's been a month and I'm now just seeing a small amount of tissue expansion and a bit of regrowth over the old exposed peripheral skeleton.

IME, patience is the key, especially avoiding the very human urge to constantly move the coral to a presumed 'better' location.

 

[eyesolator]

Have you dipped it in any thing? I have found and been told that a dip can help a coral heal. As far as covering the skeleton, IMO it can as long as the skeleton doesn’t get algae growing on it.

Yes, I dipped it in FragRecover with some iodine and a small amount of H2O2 a few times and that seemed to stop the STN. I was thinking the same thing about the skeleton and algae but was not sure. It has been my experience that once STN starts it's just a matter of time before it's game over.
Thanks for the response.

 

[eyesolator]

I have a very similar situation with a wild Blastomussa vivida frag. I dipped the rock base (not the polyps) in H2O2 to kill off algae and then placed it in an appropriate location for the species (low medium light, lower flow). I very lightly feed the coral with the leftover juice from my frozen food feeding twice a week. In my case, it's been a month and I'm now just seeing a small amount of tissue expansion and a bit of regrowth over the old exposed peripheral skeleton.

IME, patience is the key, especially avoiding the very human urge to constantly move the coral to a presumed 'better' location.

As is always the case, who knows what kind of light and flow it was collected in and how long the importer had it and their light and flow too.
I have moved out of my display and it is in a low light low flow frag tank now. I know its so hard not to want to fund a better place of it. I have fed it small amounts of aquaforest LPS food a couple of time and it seems to be puffing up a little more
Thanks for the response.

 

[Dave1993]

DO NOT cut the skeleton

 

[eyesolator]

As is always the case, who knows what kind of light and flow it was collected in and how long the importer had it and their light and flow too.
I have moved out of my display and it is in a low light low flow frag tank now. I know its so hard not to want to fund a better place of it. I have fed it small amounts of aquaforest LPS food a couple of time and it seems to be puffing up a little more
Thanks for the response.