New torch still closed. Does it look ok?

[Lonny]

Tho it's not open yet it looks fine. Do you have any foods like reef chili or oyster feast? Maybe if you have pellet food grind it into a powder. Mix it with some tank water and use a turkey baster to blow some food up stream of the torch and let the current carry it by the torch. This might entice it to open up.

 

[Ubans13]

I tried turkey baster and it closed up more. Maybe a little to close to it. Thanks for the help. Just gonna have to have some patients I guess. As long as it looks good. I have a bubble tip anemone that still hasnt moved from under my rock work as well.

 

[Lonny]

That's a good sign! Ya don't hit it with flow from the baster. Just let the current take the food to it. When mine close at night they look just like yours. I'm pretty new to but imo yours looks good just trying to settle in. Plus every time you move it, it resets the clock. Can't wait to see it open!

 

[Ubans13]

Me either looked great at reefapalooza!

 

[CodyRVA]

Just my 2 cents, but food isn't going to make this torch any happier. I see zero signs of coralline algae in your system which is typically a good indicator of a stable/healthy/mature system. I'm still guessing you have a chemistry issue.

 

[Ubans13]

Every coral Is good duncan all open my chemistry is the same as yesterday only my salinity is now 1.025

 

[Lonny]

True the rocks are bone white. But the nem seems happy.

 

[Ubans13]

But has been moved alot

 

[ahiggins]

My torch shrinks at night but never enough to see the skeleton in the inside...Im going to tag along with this

 

[CodyRVA]

Every coral Is good duncan all open my chemistry is the same as yesterday only my salinity is now 1.025

What test kits are you using? Are you testing multiple times a day? Are you testing at the same time every day? It's not just about hitting that magic number, but remaining stable 24/7. If your parameters were consistently spot on 24/7, in 3 months time you should see at least some coralline algae in the tank; your rock work is bone white.

 

[Lonny]

Do you have any fish?

 

[Ubans13]

Ok so I test every day before 12am I would say. I test salinity maybe 3 or 4 times. Still new to this whole thing on getting my water changes right on the money the first time. I had one issue 5 days before corals came I added a shrimp, clown and a wrasse. So I had an ammonia spike. Just under .25 They were first additions after cycling. No sand just 45lbs live rock. So I figured this was do to adding to much to fast.

So water change away I went. Before corals were added ammonia zero. Day later added live sand. Most of my test kits are API which I know arent the best. But starting out that was what I got before knowing the truth.

 

[Tanked_Life]

LPS like a little bit of phosphates hence why having a brand new system and close to zero is bad. I know this because when I put granulated ferix oxide in my tank (GFO) all of the phosphates where removed at once and the one happy torch looked like yours did and then died a week later. This could be similar to your tank. The torch went from the vendors tank which probably had some phosphates in it to your tank that has only .5 . Just my two cents from past experience.

 

[Reeferdood]

I would agree with a few of the posters before me...
Temp seems a little low and by looking at the pictures your rocks are too white telling me that either you have no lights or it has not cycled yet.. I use the same rocks when adding anything and they brown up within 3-5 days with diatoms, even in a mature system...

 

[Ubans13]

Ok so tank has deff been cycled. I didnt run light during cycle process. Have only had light on since addition of fish and coral. Which would be around 13 days now. Give or take a few. The bloom may be coming. But I also only added live sand 4 days ago. Which I know adds to the bloom. Until then I have had a very low nutrient system. Cycle was completed only with dry rock. I have bumped the temp up. Torch is looking better today.

 

[Ubans13]

Also initial tank water was demineralized water from where I work. Used for steam turbines and all. So ultra pure. We test for silica and sodium and keep to very good water quality.

 

[Lab_Adam]

I had a brand new torch that no matter what I did it would stay closed up like that. I even moved to to a different system and no change. I had that torch for about year before I gave it away. In that entire year in didn't grow at all.