Torch coral Bailing Skeleton HELP! pls

[Reefer-Chris]

Sooo... a Couple days ago i noticed my torch coral was letting loose of its skeleton i did some reaserch and found some things about it but nothing about how to fix it. (I really like this coral and have it for quite some time someone pls help!)
Salinity: 24
Cal: 510
Mag: Above average
Kh: 11,5
ph: 8
N03: 5
N02: 0,05
Phosphate: 0,1
Light: Led's (BM Nano Led II Wat)

I have to manshion i did add quite some softcoral to the tank in a short period of time.
I DOSE: N0P0X, Reef energy A+B and KH/Alkalinity Foundaition B (Red Sea)

 

[Katrina71]

Is the Coral behind it stinging it?

 

[Reefer-Chris]

No nothing is touching it

 

[Reefinmike]

Is your salinity really 24? Or 34? 24 is way off and 510 for calcium is pretty darn high too. What is “above average” in regards to magnesium? First place i’d start is getting your water in line with ocean parameters. Corals tend to like that best.

 

[Reefer-Chris]

Is your salinity really 24? Or 34? 24 is way off and 510 for calcium is pretty darn high too. What is “above average” in regards to magnesium? First place i’d start is getting your water in line with ocean parameters. Corals tend to like that best.

i meen indeed 34
And i know cal is high but its lowering naturally dont want to make drastic changes that would kill of all of my corals, and magnesium is around 1500

 

[Reefinmike]

I had a somewhat similar issue with parameters when I reset my tank with a new batch of instant ocean that I didn't test. magnesium was 1600 an calcium was 550. It took a while to recover from that and corals generally weren't doing great. Once I got things back in line everything exploded in growth. I know you said you have had the coral for a while, how much light is it getting? in my experience euphyllia does best in low light, almost in the shadows. Your cal, alk and mag are all fairly elevated, this could perhaps be stressing the coral out enough for it to bail. I love euphyllia and have probably grown 1,000 heads over the past 12 years. I cant say what exactly makes them bail out but it seems that once they start to bail, they never go back. yours looks like a walling variety which is also less forgiving once damaged.

If you want to take a gentle approach, I would do a 25% water change to try to bump those parameters down and move the coral to a very low flow area. From the picture it looks to get pretty good flow which could be exacerbating the problem. You mentioned adding some soft corals? You should try running some carbon, many soft corals can emit toxins that generally stress out other corals. Toadstools, leathers and palys/zoanthids are the worst offenders.

 

[Reefer-Chris]

I had a somewhat similar issue with parameters when I reset my tank with a new batch of instant ocean that I didn't test. magnesium was 1600 an calcium was 550. It took a while to recover from that and corals generally weren't doing great. Once I got things back in line everything exploded in growth. I know you said you have had the coral for a while, how much light is it getting? in my experience euphyllia does best in low light, almost in the shadows. Your cal, alk and mag are all fairly elevated, this could perhaps be stressing the coral out enough for it to bail. I love euphyllia and have probably grown 1,000 heads over the past 12 years. I cant say what exactly makes them bail out but it seems that once they start to bail, they never go back. yours looks like a walling variety which is also less forgiving once damaged.

If you want to take a gentle approach, I would do a 25% water change to try to bump those parameters down and move the coral to a very low flow area. From the picture it looks to get pretty good flow which could be exacerbating the problem. You mentioned adding some soft corals? You should try running some carbon, many soft corals can emit toxins that generally stress out other corals. Toadstools, leathers and palys/zoanthids are the worst offenders.

Thanks for the reply and the advice im sure to atleast move it but only have red sea (Coral Pro) salt on the hand that elevates lvl's wont that just hurt it even more?

 

[Reefer-Chris]

I had a somewhat similar issue with parameters when I reset my tank with a new batch of instant ocean that I didn't test. magnesium was 1600 an calcium was 550. It took a while to recover from that and corals generally weren't doing great. Once I got things back in line everything exploded in growth. I know you said you have had the coral for a while, how much light is it getting? in my experience euphyllia does best in low light, almost in the shadows. Your cal, alk and mag are all fairly elevated, this could perhaps be stressing the coral out enough for it to bail. I love euphyllia and have probably grown 1,000 heads over the past 12 years. I cant say what exactly makes them bail out but it seems that once they start to bail, they never go back. yours looks like a walling variety which is also less forgiving once damaged.

If you want to take a gentle approach, I would do a 25% water change to try to bump those parameters down and move the coral to a very low flow area. From the picture it looks to get pretty good flow which could be exacerbating the problem. You mentioned adding some soft corals? You should try running some carbon, many soft corals can emit toxins that generally stress out other corals. Toadstools, leathers and palys/zoanthids are the worst offenders.

So update: The polips let loose and i glued them back to their base hope they survive but have not that much hope- Praying :'(

 

[Reefinmike]

Yeah im really not sure what you can do to help at this point. If it bails out of the glue, i would sit it in a very low flow area on the sand and put a plastic container over it with a bunch of holes drilled in it. Generally they dont recover from this. But then again i’ve seen a fungia recover twice from an urchin attack... they aren’t supposed to survive being damaged.

 

[Reefer-Chris]

Yeah im really not sure what you can do to help at this point. If it bails out of the glue, i would sit it in a very low flow area on the sand and put a plastic container over it with a bunch of holes drilled in it. Generally they dont recover from this. But then again i’ve seen a fungia recover twice from an urchin attack... they aren’t supposed to survive being damaged.

Thx for the advice ill try a couple of things