Polyp bailout

[tdi64]

All parameters are good and corals and fish open and thriving but i had a candy cane coral with two head bail but just one head ? Looks alive and some skeleton on back side is this normal ?

 

[KrisReef]

Doesn't sound normal. Coral do not normally bail out or leave the main stem taking a piece of the skeleton as they go. Normal is to stay put with the entire skeleton united and in place where it grew.

I think normal bale jumpers try to go completely over the bale but things don't always go normally?

 

[Gtinnel]

I agree that it doesn't sound normal. If a coral has a polyp that bails generally means that coral (or at least the individual polyp) was doing very poorly. Bailing out is a last effort for the coral to save itself, although IME once it bails its pretty much done for.
A picture in this case would help a lot to determine how good or bad the other polyp looks. I've had a torch bail for no apparent reason sometimes these things just happen without any logical explanation.

 

[Stellar Aquatics]

Agreed with the above replies, understandable when trying to aquaculture wild torches and such, but something as hardy as a trumpet, could be something else. Test and double test all parameters.

 

[tdi64]

All parameters are good. I should have sai a few days ago i noticed vermataid snail on the coral pulled it chipped it off and put it back. Maybe stress also ina moderate flow area