How do I enhance tissue regrowth on diseased coral?

Ohio

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I have a meat coral that succumbed to Brown Jelly. Last night it set in a Chloramphenicol bath. Now I am monitoring for recurrence in a quarantine tank. How can I encourage this piece to regrow it's damaged tissue. Vitamin C(what dosage)? Anything else?

Hopefully i can save this coral. Thank you, Jenn.
 
I just posted this to another thread. It was an experiment that worked for me. Use at your own risk. The idea is that this should nuke bacteria, parasites etc. Good luck.

If the tissue continues to retract, I'd dip it again & treat the exposed skeleton with a drop of hydrogen peroxide, dip the area clean in SW, add a drop of concentrated iodine (avoid getting on healthy tissue) & maybe a drop of anti bacterial compound. Rinse between each compound & keep the healthy polyps wet & don't take too much time. Touching the edge of the tissue/skeleton is OK but no chemicals on the healthy tissue. Caution: I cooked up this procedure myself & saved 2 scolys & an Aussie war coral this way. It's not a common treatment so use only as a last resort & at your own risk. I've read of people cutting away the exposed skeleton or fragging a remaining healthy polyp if it looks to be going downhill fast. Never done this myself but maybe others can advise on this.
 
My LFS swears by dosing Strontium in low doses (1/3 rd the recommended dose was what they told me). I was so reluctant to do this, since I can't test for it/didn't have a kit. But it was apparent I needed something as my prized torch coral was going down hill. You can search the boards for the post I have on "Torch Coral Tissue Recession"

Anyway, I started dosing and in about 3-4 weeks it showed promise. Now it's extending so much, I may have to move it and also - splitting :)

Caution, but it worked for me.
 
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