New Torches - Won’t Open? Bad placement?

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Picked up two torches from an online shop. They’ve been in the tank for about 5 days. Flow is light - factory return pumps, random flow. Two AI Prime 16s set at about 40% for 8 hours daily.

30-40% water changes every 10 days. Parameters are normal.

Any advice or ideas? Torches are on the left and right sides of the close up photo.

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Some corals get ticked off. Try putting them at the bottom with low flow for a couple days, then gradually raise them to where you want them. My torches pulled this crap too. Hope this helps my friend!

-Reeferman47
 
They like pretty decent flow(moderate or a little more than) and moderate light, did you light acclimate to the height theyre at?
 
30-40% seems like a lot for water changes every 10 days unless your running without a skimmer. how many fish do you have ? & what is your n03 & p04 levels? torch corals typically don't like low p04.
 

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