Torch coral oopsie

[carriej]

Hi Folks,

I picked up some frags from a fellow reefer to help me get started and because I wanted some practice ones before I went out and spent money.

They are all doing fine, but one of my crabs knocked the torch coral frag (2 heads) into the sand and one head sorta got buried. It happened during the night and it really wasn't happy. One head remains unaffected.

However the head that got buried, a lot of it's flesh peeled back on the skeleton (for example the healthy head has a good 1.5-2 inches of flesh down the skeleton) and only has flesh on the very top now.

It is opening and closing, but it's opening later and closing way earlier than the "healthy" head. It's also not extending quite as fully and first thing in the morning it shrivels up to like nothing.

I have been just leaving it and sorta hoping for the best.. It's not decaying or anything that I can see. Should I just leave it? What to look out for to know that it's dead?