What do you do when a sps gets hurt?

[eboonaman]

My prized "JB red millepora" frag got knocked over into one of my mini carpet anemone's and got stung pretty bad. the top 1/3 of the frag tissue "bleached out" but the remaining base tissue is ok.
my question:
Do I just leave the dead top attached and hope the remaining portion just grow over it?
OR
Do you recommend clipping it off down to the good tissue?

thanks in advance...

 

[Spracklcat]

Well, if you clip it into the healthy tissue, it will grow back, and hopefully you will avoid any secondary bacterial infection setting in in the necrotic tissue which could compromise the rest of the coral. If you don't clip it, even if you don't get an infection, you'll have an unsightly skeleton piece which will end up growing algae or whatever.

I had almost the smae thing happen last week--a candy cane coral fell into a scolymia overnight; when I got to it in the morning they were pretty well stuck together, and the scoly was winning. I lost one head of the candy cane.

 

[teen]

if you see algae starting to grow on the top half, you should probably cut off the dead stuff.

 

[JB NY]

It's a pretty hardy coral. I would just clip the part that got burned, it should regrow. If your really worried give it an iodine dip, but I don't think you need to do that.

 

[eboonaman]

Thanks everyone, I clipped the damaged tip off.. lets see what happens..