Broken Frogspawn...Broken Heart??

[jml1149]

I accidentally dropped my forceps into the tank today, and they smashed into my frogspawn, breaking one of the newly split heads:

Ughhh. What should I do? The colony is glued in place so I don't really want to pull the whole thing out. A couple drops of iodine into the system?


These pics were taken a couple hours after lights off, with a nearby room light on. After the incident the coral looks disturbed, but not too bad. I imagine in the ocean this happens all of the time, maybe they just heal on their own?

 

[OrQidz]

I think it will heal up fine on its own, just keep an eye on it.

 

[homer1475]

It can heal on its own. Just keep an eye out for a brown jelly like substance. If you start to see brown jelly, get it out of the tank ASAP and treat it with iodine.

 

[Nina51]

it should be fine. any time anything messes with most corals, they will be ticked off for a while. it's just the nature of the beast. yesterday, i took several corals out of my tank during a water change so i could scrape some anthelia off the rocks and get rid of some bubble algae. when i put everything back in the tank, everything looked like it wanted to murder me in my sleep.

 

[jml1149]

Thanks all for the replies!

 

[FLYING BONES]

I snapped one down the middle of a head about 6 months ago. I SG it back together. Healed up and grew fine.

You can glue that back on for sure.