New Colt Coral torn?

[Lee_Bay]

Just added some corals to my tank. A small Xenia, a sun coral, aleveopora, and a decent sized Colt coral. While trying to place the Colt coral in the tank, a small tear appeared at the base of the stalk. I don't know if it's still getting used to its new environment, or if the tear is causing it, but the thing is almost laying over on the sand. My question is will it recover from this???

I have it leaning against the LR right now to kind of prop it up. Is that the best thing I can do for it? I would have posted in a coral forum, but I don't know if a Colt is an SPS, LPS, Softie, Stoney, or some other type of coral that I still don't know how to identify yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I love the look of all of it in the tank. I guess I am an official REEFER now!!! WOO-HOO!!!

 

[Dubbin1]

It should be just fine. BTW a leather coral is a softy.

 

[Lee_Bay]

Okay, good. I was worried about it for a while, but it seems to be "standing up" now. Not leaning on the rock anymore. Everything looks great and now that I know the Colt is ok, i guess i'll just sit here and stare at all my new goodies for a while!!! thanks Dwayne.

 

[Pandora]

Colt is really resilient, it'll be fine.

To give an example I just found today... I had a major power outage that killed 90% of my livestock 6 months ago, including what I had thought was an entire large pc of colt. I did not see even remnants of it all those months, as all of it had visibly melted away. I know they can regenerate from a small part, but there wasn't even that. I just today found a little bit had regrown on some rock which was fully exposed the whole time (and definitely had no visible colt). Corals are amazing things!

 

[mg426]

have to agree.When i was starting i made a lot of mistakes.I still have colt form those days.