Candy cane, accidental frag & decapitation

[basiab]

I have a candy cane that has burgundy colored polyps with teal centers. When I got it there were 3 branches, one with a healthy polyp, one dead and a third that barely had any flesh. The one polyp grew very large and split into 3. When I got them the burgundy flesh was just around the top of each polyp. Now the burgundy color continues on the branch for almost an inch and it is very smooth. Then it changes to a hard rough dark brown skeleton. The other polyp got very plump and it also grew so that the burgundy color continues as part of the branch.
I have two pieces of glass covering my tank which is 10 gallon. Somehow I managed to drop one piece of glass into the tank and it hit the candy cane cuting off the branch that has 3 polyps. So I put that branch into a small hole in some rock so now it has a temporary base. My original piece stayed as is. Then a week later I was cleaning algae off the original piece and the polyp just came off at the point where the burgundy color meets the hard seketon. The piece is almost an inch high. I decided to put it in the sand. I checked it at night and it did open up and its tentacles were out. I do not know if it came off as a result of the glass dropping down or if there is some other problem.
Should I just leave it as is or is there something better to do to insure its survival?

 

[scarf_ace1981]

it was probably from the initial accident.

as long as there is 'meat' on the skeleton and the tentacles come out it should be fine. if you would like for it to grow and split quicker just keep feeding it.

good luck

 

[basiab]

Thanks. I have it over a year and never directly feed it but it seems to grow well. What do they like to eat?

 

[Deanos]

Everything meaty (mysis, krill, pellets, brine shrimp, flakes, Cyclop-eeze for example)