Noobish sps question please help....

[Wrassemeister]

I purchased a cats paw coral (Stylophora pistillata) from a local reefer recently because he was tearing down his tank. He ended up selling me this coral for only $10. THis coral was a survivor of a tank crash and it is slowly regenerating. IT has living tissue on the tips and in various places, but there are places where the tissue has died. I would like this coral to regenerate onto the rest of its branches; only problem is that in many of the spots corraline algae has began to grow.
My question is, will the coral tissue encrust over the corraline algae that has settled on its skeleton or will those spots be forever covered in the corraline despite the growing back of the coral?

 

[Sk8r]

As it grows larger, it will fold branches around the non-growing surfaces, maybe leaving them exposed, but by then so minor within the structure you won't much notice them. I have one that has had a hot coral land on it, that is slowly recovering the burned area where fish have nipped off the algae, but I would doubt it could recover an area where coralline had grown. Give it plenty of light and flow, and it should reshape itself.

 

[Wrassemeister]

so do you think it would be best to cut off about 5 frags off the main coral and attach them to the propogation plugs and just start off fresh?