Help with dying torches

[dbleoh7]

I have 3 torches that have been slowly dying the past couple of months where the soft tissue in top slowly dies off leaving the skeleton where the head was… they’ve been in the same spots and very happy until a couple months ago. I can’t figure out why… I’ve had these torches 1-2 years with no issues…I haven’t seen any animals munching on them besides a hermit crab was on top of one a month ago but removed him… I’ve never heard of hermits eating corals though. My hammers and other euphyllia are doing well. anyone have ideas? Pictures beliw

parameters:
PAR ~200
Flow medium, indirect
Temp 78
Salinity 1.026
Magnesium 1320
Calcium 400
Alk 8.5 - dose All for Reef 6x/day
pH 8-8.3 - Refugium at night, CO2 scrubber
Nitrates 2 - dose 6ml neonitrate/day
Phosphates 0.02 - dose 4ml neophobia/day

 

[Lps_lover12]

Your nitrates are a little low. For torches I find around 10-15 ppm are best. I’ve read quite a few people have had this issue with no answer. Seems like it’s only recently that these torches just die for no reason at all

 

[Lavey29]

You need nitrates at 10 and phosphate at .05 to .1 for LPS . They are starving to death.

 

[dbleoh7]

You need nitrates at 10 and phosphate at .05 to .1 for LPS . They are starving to death.

This makes sense since I previously was running about that before I started a refugium. My pH was low so I started to run the refugium on reverse light cycle and that dropped my nutrients which made me start to dose phosphate and nitrate. Just seems like a lot of neophos and neonitrate to dose if my tank volume is only 60 gallons

 

[Lavey29]

This makes sense since I previously was running about that before I started a refugium. My pH was low so I started to run the refugium on reverse light cycle and that dropped my nutrients which made me start to dose phosphate and nitrate. Just seems like a lot of neophos and neonitrate to dose if my tank volume is only 60 gallons

I had to double dose neonitro and neophos for many months to get stable numbers. Feed more, give corals nutrients like AB plus.