Elegance coral end detached from skeleton

[LifeIsGreat]

I had a duncan detach once. A month later I found the head still alive where it had floated under a rock. I picked it up and put it in a safe crevasse where it could get some light. I heard duncans can regrow a skeleton, maybe your elegance will do the same thing?

[whatcaneyedo]

They're a very challenging coral to be successful with and not one that anyone should place in a new system. Yours looks like it has been receding and doing poorly for quite some time. Optimal and stable conditions in a well established system plus regular feeding might turn it around in theory.

I've tried a few over the years, some lived for a couple of years but all eventually died. In most cases the fleshy polyp slow receded in relation to the skeleton over many months until there was nothing left.

[DKoKoMan]

Is it just me... or is the salinity at 1.023 a tad low. I’m thinking more around 1.025-1.026 for corals as 1.023 seems to be more for FOWLR.