Stressed torch???

[N2theUnknown]

It's hard kind of hard to tell but it seems my torch heads are pulling away from the skeleton. I've had this torch for about 6 months. Was recently out of town for work and things went south. My tank got low on water due to a bad tank sitter. So I'm sure I had wild swings of all kinds. Not to mention my RO decided to klunk out and was using 400+ tds water. Recently did a 40% water change. Is this guy getting ready to bail or what?

Params are as of the past few hours:

Salinity 1.026
Temp 77
Phos .08
Nitrate 40
Cal 490
Mag 1500
Alk 9.8

I do not dose I use instant ocean I know some numbers are Abit high but it's what my salt is at nitrates are higher than I want but I am working on that as well I did the 40% water change and will be doing 15% changes every other day for the next few weeks. I have some iodine dip on order I think the medicoral dip.

 

[JGT]

Pics would help.

 

[N2theUnknown]

Pics would help.

 

[N2theUnknown]

 

[JGT]

Pic isn’t clear but doesn’t look that bad. Would work on getting numbers back to normal and consistent, esp NO3. Will allow torch to rebound. Oh yeah, and fire your tank sitter. .

 

[kartrsu]

Hard to know if it will bail or not, but swings and suboptimal conditions certainly make it more likely.

I know not super insightful, but I would focus on stability and do some iodine dips. Stability helps coral rebuild health, while iodine dip stops microbial infections on weakened coral. My approach is to dial in parameters quickly in one massive change and then stabilize vs multiple small changes which takes longer to reach stability.

 

[N2theUnknown]

Pic isn’t clear but doesn’t look that bad. Would work on getting numbers back to normal and consistent, esp NO3. Will allow torch to rebound. Oh yeah, and fire your tank sitter. .

Yea It seems you almost have to have a 2nd hobby in photography lol and while it wasn't all her fault I have made.things simpler and one of these days when I can add.an apex then it will be even better haha but thanks would an iodine dip be beneficial? If the coral was stressed or could that do more harm then good?

 

[N2theUnknown]

Hard to know if it will bail or not, but swings and suboptimal conditions certainly make it more likely.

I know not super insightful, but I would focus on stability and do some iodine dips. Stability helps coral rebuild health, while iodine dip stops microbial infections on weakened coral. My approach is to dial in parameters quickly in one massive change and then stabilize vs multiple small changes which takes longer to reach stability.

So your saying instead of slowly decreasing. Do one massive correction?

 

[JGT]

Yea It seems you almost have to have a 2nd hobby in photography lol and while it wasn't all her fault I have made.things simpler and one of these days when I can add.an apex then it will be even better haha but thanks would an iodine dip be beneficial? If the coral was stressed or could that do more harm then good?

Don’t think iodine would help, could hurt. I’d work on getting params in good shape. Maybe spot feed the torch as well.

 

[N2theUnknown]

Don’t think iodine would help, could hurt. I’d work on getting params in good shape. Maybe spot feed the torch as well.

I started using red sea ab+ this past week and appt feed reef roids once a week

 

[JGT]

I started using red sea ab+ this past week and appt feed reef roids once a week

Sounds like a good plan.

 

[kartrsu]

So your saying instead of slowly decreasing. Do one massive correction?

Yeah. Take it with a grain of salt. That and iodine dips has worked well for me and have not lost a torch as a result. I had a bad bacterial issue in my tank a while back (introduced wild sand). Nearly killed my euphyllia but I just pulled them and moved them to new tank with new parameters and iodine dipped them. Saved them all.

 

[N2theUnknown]

Yeah. Take it with a grain of salt. That and iodine dips has worked well for me and have not lost a torch as a result. I had a bad bacterial issue in my tank a while back (introduced wild sand). Nearly killed my euphyllia but I just pulled them and moved them to new tank with new parameters and iodine dipped them. Saved them all.

Sounds good I've got some iodine meds enroute lol