Purple with green tip torch trouble

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Hey everyone so I have had this torch for about a month now and everything was looking great until about two weeks ago. I moved it to a different spot with a par of around 120. The location it was in before and was a little less par but my anemone decided to park itself just above it on the rock. Well durning that time I was out of town. When I get back it had lost all color and just looks bad. So I moved it to the location stated above. Kept an eye on it up until tonight and decided to take it out and dip it thinking it maybe something else. I did the coral RX and nothing came off of it. Washed it with fresh tank water and put it back in. Here is a picture of it in the coral RX after gently blowing it with a syringe.

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I'd blame the lighting but it wouldn't hurt to check and post all of your parameters.
 
I'd blame the lighting but it wouldn't hurt to check and post all of your parameters.
Will check again and see what my parameters are. Crazy thing is that prior to moving it and getting back from vacation I had my lights set on 50% blue and 18 white on the Red Sea reefer 50. And it looked like this when I got back. I rented the par meter and the location it was in was getting around 50 par
 
Seems to be bleaching so that would mean either hot water or too much light. If warmer water, just maybe put some icecubes in a bag, put a fan over the tank or use a chiller ig. If lighting, just turn it down. Are your other corals doing well?
 
Seems to be bleaching so that would mean either hot water or too much light. If warmer water, just maybe put some icecubes in a bag, put a fan over the tank or use a chiller ig. If lighting, just turn it down. Are your other corals doing well?
The water is at 78. All my other coral such as frog sponge, hammer and other torch acans etc are all just fat as can be loving life haha. When I got back from vacation I noticed that my Po4 and Po3 were up quite a bit almost 20 on Po3 and .15 on Po4. Before I left I was dealing with a lot of brown algae so I took out the carbon pack and GFO pack to bring up my nutrients which did and wiped out my brown algae issue. Did a 15% water change and added back the carbon and GFO to bring the two back down. The only issue out of all of this is this torch looking like crap.
 

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