Aussie Gold Torch Dying

[1Matthew]

Help! My Aussie gold torch seems to be receding and dying. I bought it around Sunday and ever since then it is still relatively closed. Also, it recently fell of a rock into the sand. We are also battling Cyanobacteria in the tank currently. The nitrates are also practically at 0. Everything else seems to be doing fine but that one torch. How do we get the nitrates up without buying new fish? Also can we save this torch?? Please Help!

 

[Duncan Tse]

Water parameters?
Lighting?
How long have you had this tank setup?
Pic of tank?
Equipment?
What other corals do you have in your tank right now that's doing good?

 

[Malifry97]

Water parameters?
Lighting?
How long have you had this tank setup?
Pic of tank?
Equipment?
What other corals do you have in your tank right now that's doing good?

THIS^

 

[JayKim]

I don't think it's the nitrate. what else you have in your tank. I lost mine few weeks ago and I think my peppermints killed it. I put in a cheaper torch later just to make sure that it wasn't the water quality and next day I saw pieces of that torch on the bottom of the tank, I moved it to another tank without peppermint shrimp and it's doing ok now.

 

[1Matthew]

Ok
Lights: 2 AI primes
Ammonia: 0
Ph: 8.2-8.4
Nitrate: 0
Calcium: 425
Alk: 8.1
Phosphates: .07
Mg:1340
These are old parameters but i believe they have stayed relatively the same
The corals we have are hammer, frogspawn, torches, zoas, candy cane, and acans. All of them are spread apart from each other and most of them are frags. The tanks has been running for about a year but we had an itch outbreak so we only have had coral for half of the time

 

[1Matthew]

Oh and also we don’t have peppermint shrimp we got rid of them they were being a nuisance

 

[JayKim]

Oh and also we don’t have peppermint shrimp we got rid of them they were being a nuisance

yeah, they cleared my aiptasia but I guess now they are going after torches.

 

[1Matthew]

well it there are no peppermint shrimp so what do you think I should do?

 

[JayKim]

I don't know, given that your other similar corals are doing well. cyano usually means high nutrients, are you sure your nitrate is 0? I usually use chemiclean to clear cyano, but I didn't have torches when I used it.

 

[1Matthew]

Well do you think it is some other parasite since the coral fell and maybe a different bacteria got on it and started killing it. What do you think the plan should be now?

 

[1Matthew]

I can’t have this coral die it was so expensive and it was pretty much a gift for my son since we love to work on our reef together

 

[JayKim]

let's call in the experts. #reefsquad

 

[JayKim]

pics would help a lot.

 

[1Matthew]

I’ll try and get a pic in but it won’t be the best since the lights are off

 

[1Matthew]

At first I thought it was just really closed but know it looks like it is receding

 

[JayKim]

unfortunately mine looked like that before it died. tissues are receding. check out this thread, it's similar.

How long does it take for a torch to open up?

I just got this purple torch in the mail yesterday. Got him acclimated and set him in the tank. But he isn’t opened up yet. How long does it normal take for them to open up? I’ve got several other torches that opened up within a couple hours of putting them in the tank. This new torch though is...

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[1Matthew]

You think it’s a gonner? Is there any way to save it? Is it cuz of the water parameters

 

[JayKim]

You think it’s a gonner? Is there any way to save it? Is it cuz of the water parameters

your water parameters look fine. did it look good when you first put it in the tank?

 

[1Matthew]

It looked just like it was pretty closed up and I figured it would open later but it hasn’t.

 

[Duncan Tse]

First thing that comes in mind since all your other corals are doing well is did you dip it? May have been some parasite that is closing it to recede