Brain coral help

Something in the tank poked a hole in it or took a bite of it. I think it was the large red legged hermit which is in the sump now but my coral looks deflated and like it cant fill back up. I dont know if its beond help and its dead it looks all wilted and bad. Any advise? I have 2 coral beauties and also a hawk that I dont trust. I wish I could catch them to remove but im working on it the worst culpret has been the large red legged hermit which I caught and removed to the sump. Any advise if this is going to live? This was my wifes choice for the corals and id hate to lose it.

 

can i see a pic, of the coral before and how it is now/?? mine did that the other day for like 3 or 4 hours then just went back to norm. corals are fickle sometimes, like my duncans will be fine for weeksthen for a day or two they will look bad then great again, norm. they sprout new heads though when that happens, but my 4 brain corals that i have do weird things from time to time.

 

I dont have any pics of the before or after. I m sorry. It has a few rips in it that I can se as well the last few days I saw its mought look like it was just doing what it can to hang on. I am bummed about this coral. My wife really liked this one and its not god to lose anything let alone the one the wife liked

 

well the most you can do now, is give it an iodine dip so that it will prevent infection will the rips are, and then put it in a low flow environment and wehn it will start accepting food, feed it, and you will be able to nurse it back to life, i got a free small green and red open brain and half its skeleton is showing and i am nursing it back to health and it hasnt gone down hill one bit.

 

Thank you. I just got into corals and am trying not to lose this coral. I will try this. I am buying a 24 gallon nano tank for a hospital tank, Hopefully I can get it set up in time.

 

oh good idea, just make sure to properly cycle it prier to putting anything into it, but ive known open brains to be very hardy so i am sure it will pull through......the 24 could also be more of a frag tank for smaller frags to have a nice place to grow out into small colonys where there they can be placed into your main tank, but reguardless you are going to love the way the corals make your tank look!

 

First of all, Hawkfish do not make good reef inhabitants with invertebrates! They normally make quick pickings of small inverts like hermits.
Now for your brain, how long has it been deflated?
They don't inflate for long periods of time, especially after the lights go off.
What kind of brain are you talking about anyhow? Their are so many species of brains!

 

I am not sure of the species. I will get a picture of it on here in a few when the lights come back on. its been deflated for 2 days now and I can see two hiles in it. I did not know that the red hawk was a bad reef inhabitant. I will remove him just to be safe. The only trouble i had had with snails before was from the large hermit.