Anyway to save my coral :-/

Hey guys so like a week ago I had a bad ammonia spike because I had this giant snail die and I didn't notice. My tank is a tiny fluval edge so it clearly made a huge impact when it died and almost all my zoas survived (one frag won't open up again but looks normal... And another doesn't look so hot...) anyway I have some candy cane that really went downhill, after the spike, the mouths turned purple and like died I guess? The rest of the coral still has it's bright color and puffs up but I haven't seen any feeder tenticles out, one of the heads has some of the skeleton exposed , just alittle but still. Anyway is there anyway to save it or am I just wasting time? What can I do for it? More light? Flow? Or less till it recovers? Ty in advanced

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Try feeding it if you have not. Prehaps think of fragging the good piece.

 

The best thing to do is leave it where it is. Also I hope you did a very slow but necessary water change to remove the ammonia. Your coral will recover but please do not move it you will stress it out. Corals have an amazing ability to heal and should not be messed with once established in one area.

 

Yeah the water is back to normal, I did it slowly as not to shock the system it's a small tank with only one small trimma goby. It's practically empty since the goby hides except for when I feed it. Anyway thanks for the advice

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the best thing to do which is also the hardest is to just be patient and keep ur water quality top notch and everything should heal and recover. Some coral will take a long time to come back and some will come back fast but they should come back in time. What type of lights are you using???? Stock or did you upgrade?

 

i retro'd a bunch of 10 watt 50/50 coralife lights into the hood

U can't keep anything with the stock lights.....well a local lfs stuck some bullseye mushroom in there with the stock lights but personally i woulnd't do ANY coral with the stock lighting. its decent for lightly planted (freshwater) fluval edges but nothing more IMO.

 

Candy Cane is a very hardy coral, a picture might make me sing a different tune. But from what you wrote I would not give up hope.

As suggested keep the water quality where it should be and feed the coral mico plankton and he will more then likely recover.