Did I kill this ???? already?

[Daddy-o]

Bought this last week and placed it high in my tank. (what is it?) a snail knocked it over today, so when picking it up I noticed that it was not soft at all, but rather rigid. I moved it down to the sand bed in case I should have done this initially to acclimate it to my tank.

90g tank with 2 AISol's at 40% white, 90% blue and 80% royal.

 

[Flreefer]

Looks like a Candy cane coral, or a Trumpet coral.
You probably didn't kill it, but yeah, you should acclimate it from the bottom-up, over the course of a few weeks.

 

[kdpuffer]

It's a candy cane, and it looks happy and healthy so I wouldn't be worried about it. I keep my candy cane on the sand as well as my other LPS corals.

 

[Daddy-o]

How about being dead now? Did not realize how bad it got until I saw the picture from earlier? It has an aiptasia growing at the base so I pulled it out of tank to take care of it. That is when I realized how bad it had gotten.

Any chance if recovery? It has no softness Tobit "trumpets".

 

[Flreefer]

When it's dead, it won't have any colored fleshy tissue left at all, just skeleton, so it's not dead. It could still make a recovery from this point.

 

[Daddy-o]

Any advice on healing??

 

[Flreefer]

The only things I could suggest, would be to make sure your water parameters are at acceptable levels, and make sure it's getting enough light and flow.