Need some advice on my Chalice....

[wienerdog]

I got this guy several months back. He didnt acclimate well and he started to die off on an edge and progress into the center. It has stopped and the healthy tissue is growing very well, even over the old dead stuff. Should I dremel the dead stuff off and leave tjust the healthy tissue?

 

[jsciarrino]

I would leave it alone.It looks like it is filling in nicely

 

[yh1185]

Agreed just leave it as is. I had a chalice that was stung by another coral, and about 1/2 of it turned white and i'm guessing either died or was severely damaged. After a couple of weeks, and my cleaner shrimp + hermits picking at it, the chalice is back to it's old glory and you can't even tell it was damaged. Think of it this way instead of having to regrow a full skeleton, it might be able to use what's there and just grow over it. (i could be completely wrong about how chalices grow, but that's how i think of it)

 

[wienerdog]

Agreed just leave it as is. I had a chalice that was stung by another coral, and about 1/2 of it turned white and i'm guessing either died or was severely damaged. After a couple of weeks, and my cleaner shrimp + hermits picking at it, the chalice is back to it's old glory and you can't even tell it was damaged. Think of it this way instead of having to regrow a full skeleton, it might be able to use what's there and just grow over it. (i could be completely wrong about how chalices grow, but that's how i think of it)

Thats what it looks like. It looks like its growing right over it.

 

[NikkiT]

+1 leave it alone. I have had that happen, so long as they start to recover (which yours clearly has) they will grow back. I would only dremmel it if the exposed skeleton starts to grow algae, and before I did that, I would try to manually remove the algae.

 

[wienerdog]

Thanks Nikki. He has grown so much so fast I wasnt sure how to handle him. He is my first chalice.