Help-Emergency. Torch rapidly dying

[reeferfoxx]

What is your magnesium?

 

[40B Knasty]

+1 one light shock. What kind of lights did it come from to what it is now?

 

[PJNANO]

This is typically a no no. Moving the coral from one tank to another can add more stress. Especially if any parameter+lighting is different. Typically you would just move the coral to a low light low flow area where it can heal. If by chance it dies keep the skeleton. There is a good chance it can regrow from the skeleton.

I really only moved it to the other tank in case it totally dies over night. I don't want it to polite the tank. I checked the params and they pretty much match, so hopefully that won't add to the problem

 

[PJNANO]

What is your magnesium?

1320

 

[PJNANO]

+1 one light shock. What kind of lights did it come from to what it is now?

honestly I'm not sure about the lights, dumb move on my part, but I had my lights turned down pretty low, and placed it on the bottom. Really the only thing I can think of is too much flow. Just thought the receding would stop once I moved it

 

[reeferfoxx]

I really only moved it to the other tank in case it totally dies over night. I don't want it to polite the tank. I checked the params and they pretty much match, so hopefully that won't add to the problem

I had a frogspawn colony tear from too much flow. Maybe not quite as bad as yours but enough to see the insides. I moved the colony to a very low flow area and it recovered almost over night. I would consider moving it back into the tank(assuming everything else is fine) and put it in a dark low flow area for while. Monitor it there. It might look closed up for awhile but should recover. FWIW I cut my entire colony off its base stalk and the base regrew four new heads.

 

[Roy 9121]

I had a frogspawn colony tear from too much flow. Maybe not quite as bad as yours but enough to see the insides. I moved the colony to a very low flow area and it recovered almost over night. I would consider moving it back into the tank(assuming everything else is fine) and put it in a dark low flow area for while. Monitor it there. It might look closed up for awhile but should recover. FWIW I cut my entire colony off its base stalk and the base regrew four new heads.

+1

 

[PJNANO]

O feel like every time I go to look at it, it looks worse.

 

[PJNANO]

Thank you everybody. At this point I need to hope for the best. I've got to get some rest. Work tomorrow will not care about my dying coral

 

[Sir Chris]

Yes it needs 2 b in a low low flow area so it can heal and inflate if it can 2 absorb light. For zoo like posted. Like I said my golden hammer had a barnical in its mouth and can 2 break it and not kill the hammer. It's a golden hammer for 30$ cause they didn't know. So I scored and saved the hammer. So it's living off light right now as its mouth is distroyed and has been 2 months now.1st is with the barnical and 2nd is killed and shrunk and woukda died. U can see in my post that says my hammers is its thriving now.

 

[40B Knasty]

Yes it needs 2 b in a low low flow area so it can heal and inflate if it can 2 absorb light. For zoo like posted. Like I said my golden hammer had a barnical in its mouth and can 2 break it and not kill the hammer. It's a golden hammer for 30$ cause they didn't know. So I scored and saved the hammer. So it's living off light right now as its mouth is distroyed and has been 2 months now.1st is with the barnical and 2nd is killed and shrunk and woukda died. U can see in my post that says my hammers is its thriving now.

I had one of those on my torch. Did some surgery and got rid of it. Didn't want it to bother the coral.

 

[PJNANO]

It's in a separate tank now with very little flow and low light. Will gradually amp up light. Honestly, I didn't expect it to make it through the night, but it is still holding on. Will post update when I get home from work tonight.

 

[PJNANO]

Does anybody know if there is something I could/should dose to aide in the recovery? Aminos, carbs, vitamins?

 

[Dobermanp]

Unfortunately with euphillia this stuff happens. Once they start it's. 99.9% you can't save it. Moving tanks and dipping them around stresses them out more. Unfortunately you're just gonna have to deal with the inevitable that it's gonna die.

 

[raullbaldwin]

Nitrates are high but that shouldn't kill a coral that fast. Do you have Palythoas or any other zoanthids in your tank? If you do you have to put an activated carbon reactor with new charge to work ASAP.

 

[reeferfoxx]

Nitrates are high but that shouldn't kill a coral that fast. Do you have Palythoas or any other zoanthids in your tank? If you do you have to put an activated carbon reactor with new charge to work ASAP.

He's dipped, moved and moved more and then moved it to another tank with different parameters. We've made the suggestions, he just needs to appreciate the suggestions, use them and learn from them. I fear he's already googled every additive for some magical cure.

 

[PJNANO]

He's dipped, moved and moved more and then moved it to another tank with different parameters. We've made the suggestions, he just needs to appreciate the suggestions, use them and learn from them. I fear he's already googled every additive for some magical cure.

This is not true, nor is it fair to berate me and assume you know anything about me. I dipped initially, as I do all new corals. I moved it once within the tank to a lower flow area and left it there for 6 hours but it was still receding. I moved it to my QT tank with the only difference in parameters being Alk 8.6 in the main tank and 8.4 in the QT. I moved it because I feared it contaminating the tank and killing other corals. I've not googled anything, only asked fellow reefers. I'm just trying to be proactive about saving this coral-

 

[Lovemycj7]

It looks normal mine does that all the time. If it start to bjd out then I'd be worried and frag the head

 

[PJNANO]

Nitrates are high but that shouldn't kill a coral that fast. Do you have Palythoas or any other zoanthids in your tank? If you do you have to put an activated carbon reactor with new charge to work ASAP.

I have Zoas in my main tank, and carbon was changed before new corals went in. There are no Zoas in the QT, just a small rock of rodhactis mushrooms and a little bit of xenia. I run a little bit of carbon in the filter. Are you suggesting the carbon for the Zoas or the torch?

 

[PJNANO]

It looks normal mine does that all the time. If it start to bjd out then I'd be worried and frag the head

no brown jelly, but definitely not normal. It is a single head (or at least it was)