What to do with my blasto?

[Palting]

I had a $250 gift certificate for Liveaquaria, and it was expiring. Although I knew next to nothing about coral, I used it for what is still to date my most expensive coral purchase, a Blastomussa wellsi. This is what it looked like, healthy as can be, when it first arrived:

That was 2 and 1/2 years ago. A true noob, I had no idea what I was doing. Through a series of errors, the blasto slowly started losing heads. As I gained more knowledge and expertise, I was able to slow down and eventually halt it's demise. It had gone down to about a third its original number of heads. The heads looked healthy and full. That was 2years ago. 2 years later, the heads still look and healthy and full. Problem is, it is still the same number of heads! What can I do to help propagate it? Should I frag the old skeleton off, or would that traumatize it? Here's what it looks like today:

Healthy heads (I think, anyway)

Full coral, with the bare skeleton:

Thanks!!

 

[doublejhunter]

Do you feed it?

 

[Palting]

Yup, once to twice a week it gets target fed. That's one of the things I learned the hard way that it needed.

 

[carverbeezkneez]

They seem to grow a little faster if you cut the dead skeleton off. It looks nice and healthy.

 

[Palting]

Thanks. I am a little leery of breaking the skeleton, fearing it might kill whatever heads I have left. Looking at the pic now, though, and after checking it live, there seems to be a new little head starting at the left edge, between the healthy heads and the skeleton. Maybe there is hope, yet, that it will propagate!