"Dead" corals...

[LiquidBlue]

We bought some dead corals at my LFS as decorations until we can replace them with live corals (and one of them came on an AWESOME pice of live rock for $5). Now that they are home and in the tank it looks like there not completely dead. One appears to be a brush gorgonian and the other some sort of finger leather. Both still have some areas with polyps, is there any way to nurse them back to health? I'd like to try if possible. If not, its no big deal. We bought them assuming they were dead, completely...but I'd hate to let them die when there is something I can do about it. Thank so much for reading!

[reeffanatic247]

if ur tank is established and healty then they will regenrate by themselves give us some pics if you can tank parems. dim. lighting. how old .etc..

[LiquidBlue]

We added Salt water, live sand and live rocks on 1/31/09...so the tank is a little over three weeks old. I'm at work, so I don't have any test results handy, but all the water tests have looked good over the time it has been set up. I have yet to see a really big ammonia spike in the cycle like I would expect with fresh water. The tank had a diatom bloom that ended about 5 days ago and I don't see any other bloom moving in to take its place yet (no hair algea or slime algea).

Here are the tank specs...

29 gallon biocube

Lighting (stock):
1 Coralife 10,000K 36Watt Compact Fluorescent lamp
1 Coralife Actinic 36Watt Compact Fluorescent lamp,
3 ¾ Watt Lunar Blue, Moon Glow LED lights

Flow:
316 GPH submersible pump
Koralia 1 (400 GPH)

Living stuff:
20 lbs live sand (1/31/09)
7 lbs live rock + 14 lbs lace rock (1/31/09)
4 hermit crabs (1 came on live rock 1/31/09, 3 added 2/8/09)
2 pepermint shrimp (2/15/09)
yellow polyps w/a few button polyp hitchhickers and a feather duster hitchhicker (2/18/09)
Ocellaris Clownfish (2/22/09)

I'm not stoked about having the polyps, shrimp, or clownfish in the tank. I would have liked to have waited another week for the polyps and several more weeks for the clownfish, but my husband is not so good at waiting. The yellow polyps seem to be doing well though. There are a few more on the rock now and the ones that were small when we bought it have gotton bigger. One of the hermit crabs and shrimp appear to have molted, too.

I put the gorgonian up high and in the flow of the 316 GPH return pump. I'm still trying to figure out the direct feeding method (In theory I get it, but I'm still trying some different ways to actually do it) w/the polyps. Should I just try feeding them and see how it goes?