Trying 2 save damaged plate coral

[Nicks0912]

My dad's green plate coral got picked on by a fish abt 2 months ago. I'm not sure which fish, maybe a sailfin tang.
It's been in my tank for the past 2 months with minimal recovery but it's still hanging on somehow. My lfs told me to put it in a darker area of the tank n try to feed it every few days. But I can't tell whether it's eating the food or not because it doesn't really have a mouth. It's mainly a skeleton.
Do any of u guys know some good ways to bring it back to full health?

 

[Nicks0912]

That pic wuz taken when we first noticed it wuz getting picked on. I'll try 2 take a better pic of what it looks like right now.

 

[Nicks0912]

This is what it looks like now

 

[82engineer]

It should have feeder tentacles that will latch on to food. That said if there is no extension of flesh or tentacles DO NOT throw the plate out as these have a tendancy to start to generate baby plates from a dead skeleton. It's not 100% going to happen but try it, mine has kicked out about 30-40 babies in the last year.

 

[Nicks0912]

I wuznt planning on it as I read tht in the book of coral propagating.
How long was it before yours started popping babies?

 

[82engineer]

It sat in the sand bed for 4-5 months before I noticed anything. At first I thought it was aptasia but looked closer and sure enough it was a baby plate.

 

[Nicks0912]

That's cool. Did the mother plate grow back?

 

[46gReef]

You could try iodine dips.....

 

[Nicks0912]

Didn't think of tht b4...

 

[Nicks0912]

It's recovering! Since I put it in the sand bed under the lights abt one week ago, I have fed it 2x n it's lips r reforming. the feeder tentacles around the mouth and rim are also growing back. At this rate, I should b totally recovered one week from now.:bigsmile: